AutoMerge not working

[sahilreddyifit]

I have a pretty generic setup for automerge as follows:

name: automerge
on:
  pull_request:
    types:
      - labeled
      - unlabeled
      - synchronize
      - opened
      - edited
      - ready_for_review
      - reopened
      - unlocked
  pull_request_review:
    types:
      - submitted
  check_suite:
    types:
      - completed
  status: {}
jobs:
  automerge:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: automerge
        uses: "pascalgn/automerge-action@v0.14.3"
        env:
          MERGE_LABELS: ""
          MERGE_RETRIES: "32"
          MERGE_RETRY_SLEEP: "60000"
          MERGE_METHOD: "squash"
          GITHUB_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"

But I'm not able to automerge. I saw this comment (#122 (comment)) about the merge button needing to be green to stop mergeable_state from being blocked. But the action itself produces a status check which doesn't allow the button to be green and mergeable_state to be unblocked. Instead of it being green, all of my other status checks pass and the button is grey because the automerge status check is still going. How do I get around this so I can merge when my other status checks have passed?

[sahilreddyifit]

This was actually a branch protection issue