diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/user-card-contents.js.es6 b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/user-card-contents.js.es6
index 844322aab2..238b86cdb2 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/user-card-contents.js.es6
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/user-card-contents.js.es6
@@ -7,12 +7,13 @@ import DiscourseURL from 'discourse/lib/url';
 import User from 'discourse/models/user';
 import { userPath } from 'discourse/lib/url';
 import { durationTiny } from 'discourse/lib/formatter';
+import CanCheckEmails from 'discourse/mixins/can-check-emails';
 
 const clickOutsideEventName = "mousedown.outside-user-card";
 const clickDataExpand = "click.discourse-user-card";
 const clickMention = "click.discourse-user-mention";
 
-export default Ember.Component.extend(CleansUp, {
+export default Ember.Component.extend(CleansUp, CanCheckEmails, {
   elementId: 'user-card',
   classNameBindings: ['visible:show', 'showBadges', 'hasCardBadgeImage', 'user.card_background::no-bg'],
   allowBackgrounds: setting('allow_profile_backgrounds'),
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ export default Ember.Component.extend(CleansUp, {
   showDelete: Ember.computed.and("viewingAdmin", "showName", "user.canBeDeleted"),
   linkWebsite: Ember.computed.not('user.isBasic'),
   hasLocationOrWebsite: Ember.computed.or('user.location', 'user.website_name'),
+  showCheckEmail: Ember.computed.and('user.staged', 'canCheckEmails'),
 
   visible: false,
   user: null,
@@ -291,6 +293,10 @@ export default Ember.Component.extend(CleansUp, {
     showUser() {
       this.sendAction('showUser', this.get('user'));
       this._close();
+    },
+
+    checkEmail(user) {
+      user.checkEmail();
     }
   }
 });
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/components/user-card-contents.hbs b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/components/user-card-contents.hbs
index d6895c408b..02ee31c9bd 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/components/user-card-contents.hbs
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/components/user-card-contents.hbs
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@
           <h2>{{user.title}}</h2>
         {{/if}}
 
+        {{#if showCheckEmail}}
+          <h2 class="staged">{{i18n 'user.staged'}}</h2>
+        {{/if}}
+
         {{plugin-outlet name="user-card-post-names" args=(hash user=user) tagName='div'}}
       </span>
     </div>
@@ -125,6 +129,16 @@
             <span>({{i18n 'time_read_recently' time_read=recentTimeRead}})</span>
           {{/if}}
         </h3>
+        {{#if showCheckEmail}}
+          <h3 class="email">
+            {{i18n 'user.email.title'}}:
+            {{#if user.email}}
+              {{user.email}}
+            {{else}}
+              {{d-button action="checkEmail" actionParam=user icon="envelope-o" label="admin.users.check_email.text" class="btn-primary"}}
+            {{/if}}
+          </h3>
+        {{/if}}
         {{plugin-outlet name="user-card-metadata" args=(hash user=user)}}
       </div>
     {{/if}}
diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/desktop/user-card.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/desktop/user-card.scss
index e2fdce0db4..c6bbe50c96 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/desktop/user-card.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/desktop/user-card.scss
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ $user_card_background: $secondary;
     a.card-huge-avatar {
       outline: none;
     }
+    .staged {
+      font-style: italic;
+    }
   }
 
   &.no-bg {
@@ -221,7 +224,7 @@ $user_card_background: $secondary;
 
       .user-badge {
         background: scale-color($user_card_background, $lightness: -5%);
-        border: 1px solid $primary-low; 
+        border: 1px solid $primary-low;
         color: $user_card_primary;
       }
 
@@ -255,4 +258,8 @@ $user_card_background: $secondary;
     font-size: 2.143em;
     i {color: $user_card_primary;}
   }
+
+  .metadata .email .btn {
+    padding: 2px 12px;
+  }
 }
diff --git a/app/serializers/user_serializer.rb b/app/serializers/user_serializer.rb
index 6a436eb642..82a8dcb2b9 100644
--- a/app/serializers/user_serializer.rb
+++ b/app/serializers/user_serializer.rb
@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@ class UserSerializer < BasicUserSerializer
              :primary_group_name,
              :primary_group_flair_url,
              :primary_group_flair_bg_color,
-             :primary_group_flair_color
+             :primary_group_flair_color,
+             :staged
 
   has_one :invited_by, embed: :object, serializer: BasicUserSerializer
   has_many :groups, embed: :object, serializer: BasicGroupSerializer
@@ -411,4 +412,8 @@ class UserSerializer < BasicUserSerializer
     time = object.recent_time_read
   end
 
+  def include_staged?
+    scope.is_staff?
+  end
+
 end
diff --git a/config/locales/client.en.yml b/config/locales/client.en.yml
index 3693e2a486..dd18e00502 100644
--- a/config/locales/client.en.yml
+++ b/config/locales/client.en.yml
@@ -665,6 +665,7 @@ en:
       api_approved: "Approved:"
       theme: "Theme"
       home: "Default Home Page"
+      staged: "Staged"
 
       staff_counters:
         flags_given: "helpful flags"