You can make use of the cache setting (jQuery reference)
function changeStatus(status)
{
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "api call url",
dataType: "xml",
async: false,
cache: false,
success: function (data) {
// alert("success call");
document.location = "list url"; // adding a datetime() here, doesn't give me any luck.
},
error: function () {
alert("Error");
}
});
}