Hi,
My name is Mohammed Abdallah, and that’s where the problem starts.
When I registered my Apple Developer account, I was required to upload my IDs. I did so, and after going back and forth with Apple Support for about three months, they finally accepted my application for the Apple Developer Program.
I uploaded a personal app and forgot about it. Three years later, when I returned to work on my personal project, I signed in and was asked to complete the compliance process. I provided the IDs again, and they reopened the account. Then, when I tried to pay the yearly fee, they closed the account once more and again requested compliance. I submitted the same IDs, and they eventually accepted the payment.
Now, every time I sign in, the account gets locked and asks for compliance again, and I can’t get past this step.
At the beginning, Apple Support told me that my name has many matches with people on NSA or other international watch lists. But here’s the thing: these are older individuals who got on those lists for scams or terrorism long before I was even born. My name is extremely common in the Islamic world—shared by millions, if not hundreds of millions. With nearly 2 billion Muslims globally, the odds of my name matching someone on a watch list are very high. But these are false positives, not me.
I believe the system is automatically cross-checking my name against these lists every time I sign in, which triggers the compliance lock.
Has anyone with a common or “flagged” name faced this issue? And what solutions would you suggest?