diff --git a/packages/nc-gui/components/cell/User.vue b/packages/nc-gui/components/cell/User.vue
index 3ed857ab28..31e59ff727 100644
--- a/packages/nc-gui/components/cell/User.vue
+++ b/packages/nc-gui/components/cell/User.vue
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import { onUnmounted } from '@vue/runtime-core'
 import tinycolor from 'tinycolor2'
 import type { Select as AntSelect } from 'ant-design-vue'
+import type { UserFieldRecordType } from 'nocodb-sdk'
 import {
   ActiveCellInj,
   CellClickHookInj,
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ import {
 import MdiCloseCircle from '~icons/mdi/close-circle'
 
 interface Props {
-  modelValue?: { id: string; email: string; display_name: string }[] | string | null
+  modelValue?: UserFieldRecordType[] | string | null
   rowIndex?: number
   location?: 'cell' | 'filter'
   forceMulti?: boolean
@@ -75,14 +76,15 @@ const searchVal = ref<string | null>()
 
 const { isUIAllowed } = useRoles()
 
-const options = computed<{ id: string; email: string; display_name: string }[]>(() => {
-  const collaborators: { id: string; email: string; display_name: string }[] = []
+const options = computed<UserFieldRecordType[]>(() => {
+  const collaborators: UserFieldRecordType[] = []
 
   collaborators.push(
     ...(baseUsers.value?.map((user: any) => ({
       id: user.id,
       email: user.email,
       display_name: user.display_name,
+      deleted: user.deleted,
     })) || []),
   )
   return collaborators
@@ -309,28 +311,29 @@ const filterOption = (input: string, option: any) => {
       <template #suffixIcon>
         <GeneralIcon icon="arrowDown" class="text-gray-700 nc-select-expand-btn" />
       </template>
-      <a-select-option
-        v-for="op of options"
-        :key="op.id || op.email"
-        :value="op.id"
-        :data-testid="`select-option-${column.title}-${location === 'filter' ? 'filter' : rowIndex}`"
-        :class="`nc-select-option-${column.title}-${op.email}`"
-        @click.stop
-      >
-        <a-tag class="rounded-tag" color="'#ccc'">
-          <span
-            :style="{
-              'color': tinycolor.isReadable('#ccc' || '#ccc', '#fff', { level: 'AA', size: 'large' })
-                ? '#fff'
-                : tinycolor.mostReadable('#ccc' || '#ccc', ['#0b1d05', '#fff']).toHex8String(),
-              'font-size': '13px',
-            }"
-            :class="{ 'text-sm': isKanban }"
-          >
-            {{ op.display_name?.length ? op.display_name : op.email }}
-          </span>
-        </a-tag>
-      </a-select-option>
+      <template v-for="op of options" :key="op.id || op.email">
+        <a-select-option
+          v-if="!op.deleted"
+          :value="op.id"
+          :data-testid="`select-option-${column.title}-${location === 'filter' ? 'filter' : rowIndex}`"
+          :class="`nc-select-option-${column.title}-${op.email}`"
+          @click.stop
+        >
+          <a-tag class="rounded-tag" color="'#ccc'">
+            <span
+              :style="{
+                'color': tinycolor.isReadable('#ccc' || '#ccc', '#fff', { level: 'AA', size: 'large' })
+                  ? '#fff'
+                  : tinycolor.mostReadable('#ccc' || '#ccc', ['#0b1d05', '#fff']).toHex8String(),
+                'font-size': '13px',
+              }"
+              :class="{ 'text-sm': isKanban }"
+            >
+              {{ op.display_name?.length ? op.display_name : op.email }}
+            </span>
+          </a-tag>
+        </a-select-option>
+      </template>
 
       <template #tagRender="{ label, value: val, onClose }">
         <a-tag
diff --git a/packages/nc-gui/components/project/AccessSettings.vue b/packages/nc-gui/components/project/AccessSettings.vue
index c4dcc10126..bc6e2ab832 100644
--- a/packages/nc-gui/components/project/AccessSettings.vue
+++ b/packages/nc-gui/components/project/AccessSettings.vue
@@ -44,16 +44,18 @@ const loadCollaborators = async () => {
 
     totalCollaborators.value = totalRows
     collaborators.value = [
-      ...users.map((user: any) => ({
-        ...user,
-        base_roles: user.roles,
-        roles: extractRolesObj(user.main_roles)?.[OrgUserRoles.SUPER_ADMIN]
-          ? OrgUserRoles.SUPER_ADMIN
-          : user.roles ??
-            (user.workspace_roles
-              ? WorkspaceRolesToProjectRoles[user.workspace_roles as WorkspaceUserRoles] ?? ProjectRoles.NO_ACCESS
-              : ProjectRoles.NO_ACCESS),
-      })),
+      ...users
+        .filter((u: any) => !u?.deleted)
+        .map((user: any) => ({
+          ...user,
+          base_roles: user.roles,
+          roles: extractRolesObj(user.main_roles)?.[OrgUserRoles.SUPER_ADMIN]
+            ? OrgUserRoles.SUPER_ADMIN
+            : user.roles ??
+              (user.workspace_roles
+                ? WorkspaceRolesToProjectRoles[user.workspace_roles as WorkspaceUserRoles] ?? ProjectRoles.NO_ACCESS
+                : ProjectRoles.NO_ACCESS),
+        })),
     ]
   } catch (e: any) {
     message.error(await extractSdkResponseErrorMsg(e))
diff --git a/packages/nc-gui/composables/useMultiSelect/index.ts b/packages/nc-gui/composables/useMultiSelect/index.ts
index a691067067..aed78faf02 100644
--- a/packages/nc-gui/composables/useMultiSelect/index.ts
+++ b/packages/nc-gui/composables/useMultiSelect/index.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { computed } from 'vue'
 import dayjs from 'dayjs'
 import type { Ref } from 'vue'
 import type { MaybeRef } from '@vueuse/core'
-import type { ColumnType, LinkToAnotherRecordType, TableType } from 'nocodb-sdk'
+import type { ColumnType, LinkToAnotherRecordType, TableType, UserFieldRecordType } from 'nocodb-sdk'
 import { RelationTypes, UITypes, dateFormats, isDateMonthFormat, isSystemColumn, isVirtualCol, timeFormats } from 'nocodb-sdk'
 import { parse } from 'papaparse'
 import type { Cell } from './cellRange'
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ export function useMultiSelect(
     if (columnObj.uidt === UITypes.User) {
       if (textToCopy && Array.isArray(textToCopy)) {
         textToCopy = textToCopy
-          .map((user: { id: string; email: string; display_name: string }) => {
+          .map((user: UserFieldRecordType) => {
             return user.email
           })
           .join(', ')
diff --git a/packages/nocodb-sdk/src/lib/Api.ts b/packages/nocodb-sdk/src/lib/Api.ts
index 3bc2638841..548fbf00eb 100644
--- a/packages/nocodb-sdk/src/lib/Api.ts
+++ b/packages/nocodb-sdk/src/lib/Api.ts
@@ -2763,6 +2763,13 @@ export interface NotificationUpdateType {
   is_read?: boolean;
 }
 
+export interface UserFieldRecordType {
+  id: string;
+  display_name?: string;
+  email: string;
+  deleted?: boolean;
+}
+
 import type {
   AxiosInstance,
   AxiosRequestConfig,
@@ -3343,7 +3350,7 @@ export class Api<
       }),
 
     /**
- * @description Regenerate user refresh token
+ * @description Creates a new refresh token and JWT auth token for the user. The refresh token is sent as a cookie, while the JWT auth token is included in the response body.
  * 
  * @tags Auth
  * @name TokenRefresh
@@ -3351,7 +3358,7 @@ export class Api<
  * @request POST:/api/v1/auth/token/refresh
  * @response `200` `{
   \**
-   * New access token for user
+   * New JWT auth token for user
    * @example 96751db2d53fb834382b682268874a2ea9ee610e4d904e688d1513f11d3c30d62d36d9e05dec0d63
    *\
   token?: string,
@@ -3367,7 +3374,7 @@ export class Api<
       this.request<
         {
           /**
-           * New access token for user
+           * New JWT auth token for user
            * @example 96751db2d53fb834382b682268874a2ea9ee610e4d904e688d1513f11d3c30d62d36d9e05dec0d63
            */
           token?: string;
diff --git a/packages/nocodb/src/meta/meta.service.ts b/packages/nocodb/src/meta/meta.service.ts
index e0c5af96f5..40548db54d 100644
--- a/packages/nocodb/src/meta/meta.service.ts
+++ b/packages/nocodb/src/meta/meta.service.ts
@@ -912,7 +912,7 @@ export class MetaService {
     );
   }
 
-  private now(): any {
+  public now(): any {
     return dayjs()
       .utc()
       .format(this.isMySQL() ? 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss' : 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ssZ');
diff --git a/packages/nocodb/src/schema/swagger.json b/packages/nocodb/src/schema/swagger.json
index 8255b66188..a2fde486d3 100644
--- a/packages/nocodb/src/schema/swagger.json
+++ b/packages/nocodb/src/schema/swagger.json
@@ -23864,6 +23864,27 @@
             "type": "boolean"
           }
         }
+      },
+      "UserFieldRecord": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "properties": {
+          "id": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "required": true
+          },
+          "display_name": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "required": false
+          },
+          "email": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "required": true
+          },
+          "deleted": {
+            "type": "boolean",
+            "required": false
+          }
+        }
       }
     },
     "responses": {