Request for Student Access Verification on Existing GitHub Account

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Hi everyone,

Request for Student Access Verification on Existing GitHub Account

[hoangperry]

Your post came through without details, so here's the general path for getting student access on an existing account — with the checkpoints that trip most applications:

1. Prepare the account: verify your school email if you have one (Settings → Emails), enable 2FA, and fill in your real name at https://github.com/settings/billing/payment_information — the name there must match your academic document exactly, split correctly into first/last.
2. Apply at https://education.github.com → GitHub Education benefits → Start an application, selecting your school from the list (search English name variants if it doesn't appear at first).
3. Document: a current-dated enrollment certificate or student ID with your name, the institution name in text, and a recent date — captured with your device camera during the flow, with the critical region filling the frame (screenshots and PDF uploads are the top rejection cause).
4. Location services on and VPN off during the application, since a campus-proximity check may run.
5. If rejected, read the reasons in the email, fix them all, and wait 24h+ before one clean retry.

If you post the specific error or rejection reason you're hitting, the community can give a much more targeted answer — and for account-specific states nobody here can see, the escalation path is https://support.github.com/contact/education.