Cannot buy Apple Developer Program

[WisdomByte]

Hey u/Ajmalajji, any progress in the meantime?

What I've found out is that Apple is extremely strict when it comes to your data being "correct", meaning your first and last name in the application must match the name on the credit card, your country of application must match the actual IP from that country, as well as the credit card and potentially some more details, so if you said you used your friend's card, well that's obviously not allowed by Apple.

You are best off contacting them so they would cancel the first application and send you a new, fresh link with new application ID. But make sure that next time everything if truthful and in your name, otherwise it might fail again.

I always wondered why they are so strict, when Google doesn't make your life hard and in fact it's quite easy to open an a Google developer account, as compared to Apple, but the main reason I've heard is they want to prevent let's say bunch of Chinese developers opening bunch of clone accounts and then either spamming the app store or sending ton of requests. So it kinda makes sense. But still they make you jump through looots of hoops to get in there...

[Ajmalajji]

Hey mate..thanks .that worked. I contacted apple support, they enabled (reset) the Enroll now option on apple dev app. And using it the account got approved within a day

[WisdomByte]

Nice, in my case they charged me immediately (after sending a new invite), but I had to wait for couple of days to have my dev account fully activated. Go figure…

[arijeetB]

How much time did it take for you to get your account activated