Keep getting rejected for education plan in less than 2 minutes

[damraanas]

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Verification Help & Guidance

Hi everyone,

I have submitted multiple applications for the education plan, and have been getting rejected each time in less than 2 minutes. I have addressed all the issues it says I need to fix, and yet I still get rejected.

• Please ensure that your academic affiliation document contains your last name exactly as it appears in your GitHub billing information. If you have only a single legal name, enter it in both the first and last name fields of your GitHub billing information.

The documents I have sent contain my name as it is in my billing information.

• The image you selected does not appear to contain your school name. Your complete school name must appear in your document, not only the school logo. You may include multiple documents together. If your official document is not in English then you may photograph the original next to an English translation.

My school name does appear in the photo, and I have taken a picture of both my document and its translation side by side.

• Please ensure that your academic affiliation document contains your first name exactly as it appears in your GitHub billing information. Variations of your name and nicknames are unacceptable.

It does contain my first and last name as it is in my billing information.

• You are unlikely to be verified until you have completed your GitHub user profile with your full name exactly as it appears in your academic affiliation document. Please do not use a variation of your name or a nickname. Once you have updated your profile information log out and log back into GitHub before re-applying.

I have already done that, it contains my full name, I have tried it with both my name in my native language and in english but it still says the same thing.

I have opened a ticket (#4714683) but I only got one reply from a bot and I have not gotten a response in more than a week. I have submitted my documents multiple times, done the things I have been told to do, used my phone camera to directly take a photo but nothing is working. I keep getting automatically rejected in 2-3 minutes, only exception is the first time I submitted the application, it took maybe a few hours and was still rejected, and after that every application was getting rejected in 2-3 minutes. I genuinly don't know what to do at this point.
Please help.

Thank you

[Yu-Chunxu]

I also have the same question.

[lavneethora]

Try going through this, might help https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/111352

[damraanas]

i have gone through it, but nothing works, ive done what it said to do but still keep getting rejected. thanks for the reply though

[jnishii]

I also have the same trouble, and have no solution yet...

[Michael-Stokoe]

I had a similar issue, it took a few goes, but don't give up.

You have to provide one of these:
Student ID
Transcript
Enrollment or affiliation letter
Class schedule

And make sure that your first and last name, complete school name, and a date demonstrating current academic affiliation ALL appear in your document. If they don't, it will be denied instantly.

Good luck :)

[damraanas]

yeah I've tried a bunch of times, tried different angles, multiple documents, documents with translations and the original side by side, but nothing has helped. all of the documents i sent have had my full name and school name, even with translations. i think if i try a few more times i might get blocked from sending applications.. thanks for the reply either way

[vivek-src]

One thing worth trying is including the institution's location (city/state) on the academic document. While GitHub's rejection message doesn't explicitly require this, the automated verification system may use the institution's location to identify and match the school. If possible, submit a current document that clearly shows your full name, complete institution name, institution location, and current academic status.

[damraanas]

ironically the documents i send do include both the country and city my university is in 😢

[mperitv]

I got rejected 17 times and got approved on the 18th time, and here are some tips for you:
I spent two full days dealing with this. I am not sure if you have tried these already, but here are a few key points:

• If your full name on the document is written in ALL CAPS or all lower-case, write it in your profile and billing settings exactly like that. If only the first letters are capitalized, format it that way instead.
• For some reason, GitHub does not allow uploading a file directly. When you take the photo with the camera, the image quality degrades and gets blurry. I don't know a direct fix for this, but try improving your room lighting and camera angle/positioning as much as possible. Try opening it from a device with large screen and high brightness or print the document.
• If you can obtain an official English document from your school, use that. If not, place an English translation right next to the original document in your language. If that still fails, try translating the original document directly into English.
• Finally, just try every possible combination. I don't think there is a strict rate limit or ban threshold because I applied continuously back to back many times and nothing happened so keep trying in different ways!!