First, check the Email Delivery History - go to Ashley's profile in Members in Admin.?
And Admin, Activity. Check Message Activity, moderator, etc.
I am not sure that you need to manually change an invitee's status. If you want no moderation, just make sure that in Group Settings, Spam Control, you select Moderate after 1 post. That means you must moderate the first one, but not their next post.?
And scroll way down and click on Update Group.
Check out this wiki page - scroll down to Posting Privilege to see about P:
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Status-Badges-in-the-Members-ListFrances
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/static/helpMore help: use the search button at the top of the Messages list.