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Ongoing Issue with Employment Verification in Microsoft Partner Program
I'm already a verified, confirmed partner with several active tenants. I even just verified my identity by uploading my driver's license info. Yet my employment verification was just rejected. No explanation, no appeal. I have no clue what happens next.
I’ll jump in here because I ran head‑first into this exact wall and eventually gave up. After 25+ years in US Government IT, I assumed spinning up a small consulting business would be straightforward. It wasn’t.
Like you, I did everything “right” — verified identity, followed the process, no shortcuts — and still got blocked with no explanation, no appeal, and no human path forward. Decisions seem to come from behind a wall of automation with zero accountability.
I genuinely hope yours gets resolved. I couldn’t get past it myself, and it was enough to make me step away entirely. It’s an incredibly frustrating way to run a partner ecosystem, especially when competent people are already actively supporting customers.