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Taking into account ALL type of appeals, I have approximately a 60% sucess rate. It must be remembered that the result depends upon a variety of factors: 1)the nature of your infractions/problem areas, 2) the "politics" of your agency at the time of the appeal, and 3)your openness/cooperativeness at the time that I conduct your appeal examination. As a rule of thumb think frequency, severity, and recency to judge your probablity of success: the more problems appear in your record (FREQUENCY), the more serious those problems (SEVERITY), and the closer to the present date (RECENCY)that they are, the less of a chance you have to defeat your rejection. If the evaluators have made mistakes about your past, the problems occurred in the distant past, the problems are minor in nature, and you can show changes in yourself as a person since they were committed, then your chances for success improve. Finally, how you were perceived during the face-to-face evaluation and how you answered the examiner's questions also come into play (e.g., did you appear unduly nervous, evasive, irritable, impatient).
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