# Issue with Invite Link: "Add to Group" Not Working When "Arrive at Topic" is Enabled
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-invite-link-add-to-group-not-working-when-arrive-at-topic-is-enabled/360063
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** invites
**Created:** [April 2, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-invite-link-add-to-group-not-working-when-arrive-at-topic-is-enabled/360063 "2025-04-02T17:25:16Z")
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### Author:  [@UnicornX](https://meta.discourse.org/u/UnicornX)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-invite-link-add-to-group-not-working-when-arrive-at-topic-is-enabled/360063/1 "2025-04-02T17:25:16Z")
When I create an invite link and share it with a user who is already a member of the forum, with the **“Add to Group”** and **“Arrive at Topic”** options enabled, the user is only redirected to the topic but is not added to the group. Additionally, there is no option to accept the invitation.
However, if I leave the **“Arrive at Topic”** option empty, the invite works as expected.
Please look into this and resolve the issue, as it was working fine earlier.
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### Author:  [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-invite-link-add-to-group-not-working-when-arrive-at-topic-is-enabled/360063/2 "2025-04-02T18:30:10Z")
Feels like the same use case as this issue:
> [@Invitation Links are Only Working for Non-existing Users & Breaking Our Current Implementation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invitation-links-are-only-working-for-non-existing-users-breaking-our-current-implementation/357108/11):
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> Hey @gassim , thanks for your patience while we’ve been looking into this. I’m afraid the short version of this is that your use case is not really part of our intended design for invites, and it would not be easy to adapt invites to support this. As designed, invites are meant to guide new users through the registration process, not to change existing users. We did some digging and believe that we made a security fix back in 2022 that disabled the functionality you’re describing here for exist…