diff --git a/app/controllers/users/invitations_controller.rb b/app/controllers/users/invitations_controller.rb
index c6d860364..d6ca37a7c 100644
--- a/app/controllers/users/invitations_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/users/invitations_controller.rb
@@ -85,11 +85,6 @@ module Users
               UserOrganization.where(user: user, organization: @org).first
 
             result[:status] = :user_exists_and_in_org
-          elsif result[:status] == :user_exists && !user.confirmed?
-            # We don't want to allow inviting unconfirmed
-            # users (that were not invited as part of this action)
-            # into organizations
-            result[:status] = :user_exists_unconfirmed
           else
             # Also generate user organization relation
             user_org = UserOrganization.new(
@@ -106,7 +101,9 @@ module Users
               user_org.organization
             )
 
-            if result[:status] == :user_exists
+            if result[:status] == :user_exists && !user.confirmed?
+              result[:status] = :user_exists_unconfirmed_invited_to_org
+            elsif result[:status] == :user_exists
               result[:status] = :user_exists_invited_to_org
             else
               result[:status] = :user_created_invited_to_org
diff --git a/app/views/shared/_invite_users_modal_results.html.erb b/app/views/shared/_invite_users_modal_results.html.erb
index b37644336..608e0911d 100644
--- a/app/views/shared/_invite_users_modal_results.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/shared/_invite_users_modal_results.html.erb
@@ -10,18 +10,18 @@
      - 
     <%= t('invite_users.results.user_exists') %>
   </div>
-<%   elsif result[:status] == :user_exists_unconfirmed %>
-  <div class="alert alert-info" role="alert">
-    <strong><%= result[:email] %></strong>
-    &nbsp;-&nbsp;
-    <%= t('invite_users.results.user_exists_unconfirmed', organization: @org.name) %>
-  </div>
 <%   elsif result[:status] == :user_exists_and_in_org %>
   <div class="alert alert-info" role="alert">
     <strong><%= result[:email] %></strong>
     &nbsp;-&nbsp;
     <%= t('invite_users.results.user_exists_and_in_org', organization: @org.name, role: t("user_organizations.enums.role.#{result[:user_org].role}")) %>
   </div>
+<%   elsif result[:status] == :user_exists_unconfirmed_invited_to_org %>
+  <div class="alert alert-info" role="alert">
+    <strong><%= result[:email] %></strong>
+    &nbsp;-&nbsp;
+    <%= t('invite_users.results.user_exists_unconfirmed_invited_to_org', organization: @org.name, role: t("user_organizations.enums.role.#{result[:user_org].role}")) %>
+  </div>
 <%   elsif result[:status] == :user_exists_invited_to_org %>
   <div class="alert alert-info" role="alert">
     <strong><%= result[:email] %></strong>
diff --git a/config/locales/en.yml b/config/locales/en.yml
index 2fe9aca16..12b511e2e 100644
--- a/config/locales/en.yml
+++ b/config/locales/en.yml
@@ -1439,7 +1439,7 @@ en:
     results:
       heading: "Invitation results:"
       user_exists: "User is already a member of sciNote."
-      user_exists_unconfirmed: "User is already a member of sciNote but is not confirmed yet - cannot invite to team %{organization}."
+      user_exists_unconfirmed_invited_to_org: "User is already a member of sciNote but is not confirmed yet - successfully invited to team %{organization} as %{role}."
       user_exists_and_in_org: "User is already a member of sciNote and team %{organization} as %{role}."
       user_exists_invited_to_org: "User was already a member of sciNote - successfully invited to team %{organization} as %{role}."
       user_created: "User succesfully invited to sciNote."