diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 362d1995..a6a5f0e1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -116,3 +116,6 @@ org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
 
 # Various junk and temp files
 .DS_Store
+
+#GitHub token
+github_utils.py
diff --git a/src/app/templates/app/submit_new_license.html b/src/app/templates/app/submit_new_license.html
index 14998449..50e35546 100644
--- a/src/app/templates/app/submit_new_license.html
+++ b/src/app/templates/app/submit_new_license.html
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
 </script>
 <script type="text/javascript">
 $(document).on('click', '.roundedButton', function(){
-    var html = '<div><input type="text" id="sourceurl" placeholder="" name = "sourceurl"></div>';
+    var html = '<div><input type="text" id="sourceUrl" placeholder="" name = "sourceurl"></div>';
   $(this).parent().append(html);
 });
 </script>
@@ -162,9 +162,37 @@
               timeout: 600000,
               data: form,
               success: function (data) {
-                  console.log("SUCCESS : ", data);
-                  $("#submitbutton").text("Submit");
-                  $("#submitbutton").prop('disabled', false);
+                var githubCode = data.statusCode;
+                if(githubCode == '201'){
+                  var successMessage = "The license request has been successfully submitted.";
+                  $("#messages").html('<div class="alert alert-success alert-dismissable fade in"><a href="#" class="close" data-dismiss="alert" aria-label="close">&times;</a><strong>Success! </strong>'+ successMessage +'</div>');
+                      setTimeout(function() {
+                        $("#messages").html("");
+                      }, 7000);
+                }
+                else{
+                  var warningMessage = "Please note that there was a problem opening the issue for the SPDX legal team. Please email spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org with SPDX ID for the license you are submitting";
+                  $("#messages").html('<div class="alert alert-warning alert-dismissable fade in"><a href="#" class="close" data-dismiss="alert" aria-label="close">&times;</a><strong>Warning! </strong>'+ warningMessage +'</div>');
+                      setTimeout(function() {
+                        $("#messages").html("");
+                      }, 7000);
+                }
+                $("#fullname").val("");
+                $("#shortIdentifier").val("");
+                $("#sourceUrl").val("");
+                $("#osiApproved").val(0);
+                $("#notes").val("");
+                $("#licenseHeader").val("");
+                $("#text").val("");
+                $("#userEmail").val("");
+                var sources = $('[id="sourceUrl"]');
+                if(sources.length > 1){
+                  for (var i = 3; i < sources.length + 2; i++) {
+                    $("#addSourceUrl").parent().parent().children(i.toString()).remove();
+                  }
+                }
+                $("#submitbutton").text("Submit");
+                $("#submitbutton").prop('disabled', false);
               },
               error: function (e) {
                   console.log("ERROR : ", e);
diff --git a/src/app/utils/__init__.py b/src/app/utils/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/src/app/views.py b/src/app/views.py
index 2b7c6c27..f724673f 100644
--- a/src/app/views.py
+++ b/src/app/views.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 from django.utils.datastructures import MultiValueDictKeyError
 from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
+from django.http import JsonResponse
 
 import jpype
 from traceback import format_exc
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@
 import datetime
 from wsgiref.util import FileWrapper
 import os
+from requests import post
 
 from app.models import UserID
 from app.forms import UserRegisterForm,UserProfileForm,InfoForm,OrgInfoForm
@@ -41,6 +43,8 @@
 from .forms import LicenseRequestForm
 from .models import LicenseRequest
 
+from utils.github_utils import getGithubToken
+
 def index(request):
     """ View for index
     returns index.html template
@@ -63,6 +67,7 @@ def submitNewLicense(request):
     """ View for submit new licenses
     returns submit_new_license.html template
     """
+    context_dict={}
     if request.method == 'POST':
         form = LicenseRequestForm(request.POST, auto_id='%s')
         if form.is_valid() and request.is_ajax():
@@ -80,10 +85,13 @@ def submitNewLicense(request):
             licenseRequest = LicenseRequest(fullname=licenseName,shortIdentifier=licenseIdentifier,
                 submissionDatetime=now, userEmail=userEmail, xml=xml)
             licenseRequest.save()
-            form = LicenseRequestForm()
+            statusCode = createIssue(licenseName, licenseIdentifier, licenseSourceUrls, licenseOsi)
+            data = {'statusCode' : str(statusCode)}
+            return JsonResponse(data)
+
     else:
         form = LicenseRequestForm(auto_id='%s')
-    context_dict={'form': form}
+    context_dict['form'] = form
     return render(request, 
         'app/submit_new_license.html', context_dict
         )
@@ -103,6 +111,24 @@ def generateLicenseXml(licenseOsi, licenseIdentifier, licenseName, licenseSource
     xmlString = ET.tostring(root, encoding='utf8', method='xml')
     return xmlString
 
+def createIssue(licenseName, licenseIdentifier, licenseSourceUrls, licenseOsi):
+    """ View for creating an GitbHub issue
+    when submitting a new license request
+    """
+    myToken = getGithubToken()
+    body = '**1.** License Name: ' + licenseName + '\n**2.** Short identifier: ' + licenseIdentifier + '\n**3.** URL: '
+    for url in licenseSourceUrls:
+        body += url
+        body += '\n'
+    body += '**4.** OSI Approval: ' + licenseOsi
+    title = 'New license request: ' + licenseIdentifier + ' [SPDX-Online-Tools]'
+    payload = {'title' : title, 'body': body, 'labels': ['new license/exception request']}
+    headers = {'Authorization': 'token ' + myToken}
+    url = 'https://api.github.com/repos/spdx/license-list-XML/issues'
+    r = post(url, data=dumps(payload), headers=headers)
+    return r.status_code
+
+
 def licenseRequests(request):
     """ View for license requests
     returns license_requests.html template