When fetching orders via the API, there's no way to get unprocessed (new) orders, and it would be VERY handy to be able to get these orders via this mechanism. To clarify, I'm referring to orders in /orders, that have not been touched by us at all).
According to the docs, current possible values are:
"shipped", "cleared", "pending_shipment", and "ready_for_shipment"
Would love to see "new" or "pending" or something!