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 ### 9. Submit a pull request
 
-Go to your forked repository on GitHub and click the "New pull request" button.  
-Select the branch that contains your changes, then click "Create pull request".  
+Go to your forked repository on GitHub and click the "Pull requests" tab.  
+Change the base branch from `main` to `development`, select the branch that contains your changes from the compare branch, then click "Create pull request".  
 This will open a new pull request in the fmtm repository, where you can describe your changes and request that they be merged into the main codebase.
 
 > Note: After a PR has been approved and merged, if the branch is no longer in use, delete it both locally and remotely. Otherwise we get buried in dead branches we don't need.