"request access" has status "awaiting user validation"

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done a couple of "request access" today for other people and they have gone to status "awaiting user validation"

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what does that mean? what happens next? or what do i need to run?

nb. using shared HR and these people's employee records were inactive incorrectly, so made them active first before doing the UAR

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25D

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