# How to sign a permit or request changes
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Only permit signoff users can reject a permit.
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Permits can only be approved or rejected in the Pending signoff stage.
- Find the permit you want to review
Follow the instructions on how to view a permit.
- Approve or Request changes to the permit
Under Actions in the permit summary panel you can:
Click the
to open the preview permit dialog. Press "Confirm" to sign the permit.Click the
icon to open the request changes permit dialog. Click "Confirm" to reject the permit.
In both cases you can add an optional comment, which can be used to give context to your decision.
At this stage you can also reject items in categories, even though they have already been approved by their respective sign-off users. To do this, navigate into the individual categories by clicking on them and clicking the 
icon next to any items that require amendment. Then follow the above instructions to reject the permit.
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Any categories that have one or more flagged items will need to be responded to and signed off again by their respective parties. If no category items are flagged , then once the permit has been updated by the requester it will immediately come back to Pending signoff, bypassing the already approved categories.