Hey guys wondering if you can help me! So I made a separate dummy YouTube/ gmail account, turned on my VPN to Russia and purchased YouTube premium for family. However, when I try to invite my actual YouTube account I get hit with the above error. Anyone know how to fix it? Thanks in advance!
Yeah it’s super annoying stuff, especially nowadays when a lot of people are expats and we have families living in different countries.
In any case, the workaround for this which I just tested and it works:
Go to https://pay.google.com/gp/w/u/0/home/settings or go to Manage account -> Payment and subscriptions -> Manage payment options -> Settings tab.
You then create a new payment profile in the same country that the owner of the YouTube Premium Family account is in. Once you do, you have to switch back to the old profile and delete it. You should then be able to just accept the invitation. Note: It can take a few seconds or even minutes after you delete the profile to work.
Hi Everyone. I been got Premium YouTube in US by using Indian VPN. It worked for a year no problem but today I got email
YouTube Premium memberships based in India require a form of payment issued in India.
To maintain your membership, please update your form of payment to one issued in India before 5 December 2024. If you do not update your form of payment, your membership will not renew automatically and you will lose access to your YouTube Premium benefits.
Can anyone help ? Advice would be greatly appreciated. I don’t have cable or any other way to watch tv and I can’t afford to pay $14 a month.
Watch out guys! You can change family group every 12 months. We wanted to try premium as family and because unclear informations we both are unable to share Youtube premium for next 12 months. WOW! Everything because of that “payment profile” 
Google, Google Colab, Youtube Premium…
Got the dreaded address verification required email from youtube after being using yt premium for more than 2 years.
Deleted all payment addresses and updated the primary payment address to match the family manager address.
Both have always been located in the same country.
Will this work?
Any other suggestions?
TIA
Delete all your previous payment profiles, then wait about 5 minutes before restarting the website. That’s it! I did the same, and it worked perfectly for me. Enjoy!
Does this still work?
I tried everything it just doesn’t work
I faced the same problem when adding my sister’s account she lives in a different country
Steps I followed to overcome this:
- Create a new account for her in my laptop
- Added her to the family
- She logged in using the new account and its working
Thank you for all of your help! As of April 2024 I got it to work by deleting my old payment profile in the wrong country, making a new payment profile with the correct country and deleting the mandatory credit card info I had to attach to the profile. The YT premium owner also has only one account in the correct country.
2024 May 2nd
I have it working, using the steps below:
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Connect your VPN to Ukraine or something. Not the cheapest place for a Premium subscription, but it works. Also, I feel that the price is at the level it should be at. Stay connected at all times during account setup.
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Create a Google account to use as the family manager, if you haven’t done so already. It does *not* have to be an @ gmail.com account - you can use your regular email, if you want to.
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Use a MasterCard for payment-details, be sure to use an actual address in Poland, e.g. an art museum in Poland. If you chose a different country, I assume that the address must match that country.
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Buy Premium.
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Invite which-ever Google account to the family plan. It does *not* have to be an @ gmail.com account - you can use your regular email, if you want to.
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On the family member’s account, set up the exact same MasterCard as payment details, including the address.
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Accept the invite through the mailbox of the recipient.
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Done, the member now has Premium.
I hope it works for all of you 
Please, feel free to expand the list of working “Premium account via VPN countries”.
Delete all payment profiles for all the other members and connect to the proxy server of family manager’s country, when accepting the family manager’s invitation. viola
I have two payment profiles in my master account (youtube subscription in singapore (SGD) but living in norway and payment card with norway address). the only thing that worked for us was to close all payment profiles in the slave account.
How about deleting the youtube account in the first place ?? The whole thing
Thanking you 1 year after. This is the best explanation I found
As of October 2024 I personally could not get this to work (for my main Google account)
- I tried deleting payment methods (Paypal and Google Pay) = nope
- I tried accepting the invitation with VPN on (Azerbaijan), and off = nope
- I tried re-sending the invitation with the VPN on and off = nope
- I tried deleting the subscriptions I had from Google = nope
- I contemplated deleting the Payment Profile, but this is where I drew the line. Losing my Google Reward balance, losing my Google Play Books, and Play Store wasn’t worth it
Issues for me:
- I have a Google One sub
- I have previously been in an India Youtube Family Plan
The solution!:
- I had to use a clean, new, email address (Google) and had the VPN turned on. Joined the Family Plan immediately.
It sucks it not being my “Main” Google/Youtube account but… I guess I can add the Subscriptions, and start again?
I had premium YouTube that I set up a year ago with VPN and Indian address. Everything was working fine till today. I got a letter from YouTube
To maintain your membership, please update your form of payment to one issued in India before 5 December 2024. If you do not update your form of payment, your membership will not renew automatically and you will lose access to your YouTube Premium benefits.
What should I do ? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
To those still having issues with this after removing your payment profile, check if you belong to any other family group. I was a part of my wife’s family group. Make sure you leave all previous family groups before clicking on the invite. If you are the group manager, delete the group.
I did it now and it throws the same error. I added a new payment card with vpn enabled, but added my country payment (because I don’t have what I want, Turkish) and I have the same problem still.
It worked today ! Many thanks !
Note that there is a little delay between the time that I deleted the payment profile and the time that I was able to confirm the invitation to the groupe (a few minutes)