Just want to know what steps you took- officially- to effect my release.

Hélène swiftly pays off his debts to effect his release.

"Believe me, if there were any way we could have effected her release, we would have done so."

On this account, he was imprisoned in 1528, but his friends soon effected his release.

We are in contact with the abductors and we're doing all we can to effect his release, but things are at a delicate stage.

And exactly how do you plan to 'effect their release'?

A strong force of constabulary has been sent to try to effect his release.

You seem to have tried everything you could to effect her release.

Several of them carried clasp-knives, and these were at once requisitioned in effecting his release.

In October 1621, Kepler was able to effect her release.