u/Bahauddin7

>Hi everyone,
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>I'm looking for advice from anyone who has successfully resolved a permanent LinkedIn account restriction.
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>I've had my LinkedIn account since 2019 and have used it for professional networking, freelancing, job opportunities, and building my professional network.
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>My account was restricted, and LinkedIn eventually asked me to verify my identity. I completed the requested identity-verification process and contacted LinkedIn Support.
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>The only potential policy issue I can identify is a job opportunity I reposted from Facebook. I included an email address for applicants because that was how the original post was structured, without properly considering LinkedIn's rules around job posts. If that violated a policy, it was an oversight rather than an attempt to misuse the platform.
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>I explained this to LinkedIn and asked them to tell me what specific content or activity caused the restriction.
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>Their response was that my account violated the User Agreement and Professional Community Policies and, because of the "number and/or severity" of the violations, it would remain restricted.
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>I appealed again and asked for the specific violation. They reviewed the appeal but upheld the restriction without identifying the content/activity that caused it.
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>This account matters a lot to me professionally. I'm currently studying Computer Science and working in open-source software engineering, and I've built years of legitimate professional connections and recommendations on the account.
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>I'm completely willing to correct or remove anything that unintentionally violated LinkedIn's policies. I just want the opportunity for a meaningful review and to understand what actually triggered the permanent restriction.
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>Has anyone dealt with a similar situation and successfully reached a different LinkedIn support/escalation channel after the standard appeal was denied?
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>I'd particularly appreciate hearing from people who had a permanent restriction reversed.
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>Thanks for any advice.

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Hey everyone, hoping some of you have been through this and can share what actually worked.

My LinkedIn account has been active since 2019, ID-verified, no prior violations. In June, I shared a job post for freelance video-editing work — I'd originally written it for a Facebook group and just copy-pasted it onto LinkedIn, including a direct email address for applicants to send their portfolios to. Apparently that's against LinkedIn's content policy (something about not allowing off-platform contact info in job posts), and my account got flagged and restricted.

Timeline since:

• Submitted an appeal via the Help Center — no response for weeks
• Contacted u/LinkedInHelp on X, got connected to a real support case
• Went through full ID verification (submitted passport, then NID after the first was rejected)
• Support acknowledged the case, reviewed it, and ultimately said: "we found violations of the LinkedIn User Agreement and Professional Community Policies" — plural, but never specified beyond the one post I flagged myself
• Appealed twice more explaining it was a genuine, first-time, unintentional mistake
• Final reply: "This will be the final correspondence from us regarding this issue."

So the case is closed, decision upheld, no further explanation.

Has anyone successfully gotten a "final" decision like this reversed? Does submitting a completely new appeal after some time ever work, or is this genuinely final once they say that? Also open to hearing if there's a way to at least export my data/connections before giving up on the account entirely.

This account matters a lot to me professionally — I'm about to start a CS degree and relied on it for networking, and it's frustrating to lose years of connections over what felt like a fixable misunderstanding. Any advice from people who've navigated this appreciated.