diff --git a/src/components/InviteLearnersModal/index.jsx b/src/components/InviteLearnersModal/index.jsx
index 89ee1e62d6..6446bf7302 100644
--- a/src/components/InviteLearnersModal/index.jsx
+++ b/src/components/InviteLearnersModal/index.jsx
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import { camelCaseObject } from '@edx/frontend-platform/utils';
 import emailTemplate from './emailTemplate';
 import TextAreaAutoSize from '../TextAreaAutoSize';
 import FileInput from '../FileInput';
-import { returnValidatedEmails, validateEmailAddrTemplateForm } from '../../data/validation/email';
+import { extractEmailAndIds, returnValidatedEmails, validateEmailAddrTemplateForm } from '../../data/validation/email';
 import { normalizeFileUpload } from '../../utils';
 
 class InviteLearnersModal extends React.Component {
@@ -64,6 +64,18 @@ class InviteLearnersModal extends React.Component {
     } = this.props;
 
     const emailTemplateKey = 'email-template-body';
+
+    // Data can contain
+    // 1. emails only, OR
+    // 2. emails + Salesforce IDs (every email will have a corresponding sfid)
+    // In the 2nd case, remove the Salesforce IDs from formData and
+    // handle the Salesforce IDs independently, this way emails
+    // validation will remain as it is.
+    const data = extractEmailAndIds(formData);
+    if (data.haveSFIDs) {
+      formData['csv-email-addresses'] = data.emails; // eslint-disable-line no-param-reassign
+    }
+
     // Validate form data
     validateEmailAddrTemplateForm(formData, emailTemplateKey);
 
@@ -74,6 +86,9 @@ class InviteLearnersModal extends React.Component {
     };
 
     options.user_emails = returnValidatedEmails(formData);
+    if (data.haveSFIDs) {
+      options.user_sfids = data.ids;
+    }
 
     /* eslint-disable no-underscore-dangle */
     return addLicensesForUsers(options, subscriptionUUID)
diff --git a/src/data/validation/email.js b/src/data/validation/email.js
index c39edc6585..0db85634c7 100644
--- a/src/data/validation/email.js
+++ b/src/data/validation/email.js
@@ -165,9 +165,63 @@ const returnValidatedEmails = (formData) => {
   emails = _.union(emails); // Dedup emails
   return validateEmailAddresses(emails).validEmails;
 };
+
+// Return an object of email and id if non-empty email and id are present
+const sanitize = (row) => {
+  const data = row.split(',');
+  if (data.length === 2) {
+    const email = data[0].trim();
+    const id = data[1].trim();
+    if (email && id) {
+      return { email, id };
+    }
+  }
+  return null;
+};
+
+/**
+* return an object containing
+*     emails (array): Learner emails
+*     ids (array): Salesforce ids corresponding to each learner
+*     dataHaveSFIDs (bool): Whether the formData contains Salesforce ids or not
+*/
+const extractEmailAndIds = (formData) => {
+  const emails = []; const
+    ids = [];
+
+  // TODO: TBD: Most probably we will remove this and will not handle emails + salesforce ids in textarea
+  if (formData[EMAIL_ADDRESS_TEXT_FORM_DATA] && formData[EMAIL_ADDRESS_TEXT_FORM_DATA].length) {
+    const rows = formData[EMAIL_ADDRESS_TEXT_FORM_DATA].split(/\r\n|\n/);
+    rows.forEach((row) => {
+      const data = sanitize(row);
+      if (data) {
+        emails.push(data.email);
+        ids.push(data.id);
+      }
+    });
+  }
+
+  // TBD: We will only handle emails + salesforce ids in CSV
+  if (formData[EMAIL_ADDRESS_CSV_FORM_DATA] && formData[EMAIL_ADDRESS_CSV_FORM_DATA].length) {
+    formData[EMAIL_ADDRESS_CSV_FORM_DATA].forEach((row) => {
+      const data = sanitize(row);
+      if (data) {
+        emails.push(data.email);
+        ids.push(data.id);
+      }
+    });
+  }
+
+  return {
+    emails,
+    ids,
+    haveSFIDs: !!(emails.length > 0 && ids.length > 0 && emails.length === ids.length),
+  };
+};
 /* eslint-enable no-underscore-dangle */
 
 export {
+  extractEmailAndIds,
   validateEmailAddresses,
   validateEmailAddressesFields,
   validateEmailTemplateForm,