diff --git a/solr/solr.sh b/solr/solr.sh
index 401022a87d7..f29234bccd6 100755
--- a/solr/solr.sh
+++ b/solr/solr.sh
@@ -17,3 +17,5 @@ bin/solr create -c accountrequests -s 2 -rf 2
 bin/solr config -c accountrequests -p 8983 -action set-user-property -property update.autoCreateFields -value false
 curl -X POST -H 'Content-type: application/json' --data-binary '{"add-field": {"name": "email", "type": "string"}}' localhost:8983/solr/accountrequests/schema
 curl -X POST -H 'Content-type: application/json' --data-binary '{"add-field": {"name": "institute", "type": "string"}}' localhost:8983/solr/accountrequests/schema
+curl -X POST -H 'Content-type: application/json' --data-binary '{"add-field": {"name": "comments", "type": "string"}}' localhost:8983/solr/accountrequests/schema
+curl -X POST -H 'Content-type: application/json' --data-binary '{"add-field": {"name": "status", "type": "string"}}' localhost:8983/solr/accountrequests/schema
diff --git a/src/it/java/teammates/it/storage/sqlsearch/AccountRequestSearchIT.java b/src/it/java/teammates/it/storage/sqlsearch/AccountRequestSearchIT.java
index db64c17c2ab..a9b196eafc8 100644
--- a/src/it/java/teammates/it/storage/sqlsearch/AccountRequestSearchIT.java
+++ b/src/it/java/teammates/it/storage/sqlsearch/AccountRequestSearchIT.java
@@ -89,6 +89,16 @@ public void allTests() throws Exception {
         results = accountRequestsDb.searchAccountRequestsInWholeSystem("\"TEAMMATES Test Institute 2\"");
         verifySearchResults(results, unregisteredInstructor2);
 
+        ______TS("success: search for account requests; account requests should be searchable by their comments");
+
+        results = accountRequestsDb.searchAccountRequestsInWholeSystem("Comments for account request from instructor2");
+        verifySearchResults(results, ins2General);
+
+        ______TS("success: search for account requests; account requests should be searchable by their status");
+
+        results = accountRequestsDb.searchAccountRequestsInWholeSystem("registered");
+        verifySearchResults(results, ins2General);
+
         ______TS("success: search for account requests; unregistered account requests should be searchable");
 
         results = accountRequestsDb.searchAccountRequestsInWholeSystem("\"unregisteredinstructor1@gmail.tmt\"");
diff --git a/src/it/resources/data/typicalDataBundle.json b/src/it/resources/data/typicalDataBundle.json
index 2372b2fa35f..887488e829d 100644
--- a/src/it/resources/data/typicalDataBundle.json
+++ b/src/it/resources/data/typicalDataBundle.json
@@ -80,7 +80,9 @@
       "name": "Instructor 2",
       "email": "instr2@teammates.tmt",
       "institute": "TEAMMATES Test Institute 1",
-      "registeredAt": "2015-02-14T00:00:00Z"
+      "registeredAt": "2015-02-14T00:00:00Z",
+      "comments": "Comments for account request from instructor2",
+      "status": "REGISTERED"
     },
     "instructor3": {
       "name": "Instructor 3 of CourseNoRegister",
diff --git a/src/main/java/teammates/storage/sqlapi/AccountRequestsDb.java b/src/main/java/teammates/storage/sqlapi/AccountRequestsDb.java
index f95f93bc7d9..b05b544d5b9 100644
--- a/src/main/java/teammates/storage/sqlapi/AccountRequestsDb.java
+++ b/src/main/java/teammates/storage/sqlapi/AccountRequestsDb.java
@@ -152,10 +152,8 @@ public void deleteAccountRequest(AccountRequest accountRequest) {
      */
     public void deleteDocumentByAccountRequestId(UUID accountRequestId) {
         if (getSearchManager() != null) {
-            // Solr saves the id with the prefix "java.util.UUID:", so we need to add it here to
-            // identify and delete the document from the index
             getSearchManager().deleteDocuments(
-                    Collections.singletonList("java.util.UUID:" + accountRequestId.toString()));
+                    Collections.singletonList(accountRequestId.toString()));
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/teammates/storage/sqlsearch/AccountRequestSearchDocument.java b/src/main/java/teammates/storage/sqlsearch/AccountRequestSearchDocument.java
index 9fbaf38ef14..15b6dd02e37 100644
--- a/src/main/java/teammates/storage/sqlsearch/AccountRequestSearchDocument.java
+++ b/src/main/java/teammates/storage/sqlsearch/AccountRequestSearchDocument.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package teammates.storage.sqlsearch;
 
+import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
 
@@ -19,14 +20,29 @@ class AccountRequestSearchDocument extends SearchDocument<AccountRequest> {
     Map<String, Object> getSearchableFields() {
         Map<String, Object> fields = new HashMap<>();
         AccountRequest accountRequest = entity;
-        String[] searchableTexts = {
-                accountRequest.getName(), accountRequest.getEmail(), accountRequest.getInstitute(),
-        };
 
-        fields.put("id", accountRequest.getId());
+        ArrayList<String> searchableTexts = new ArrayList<>();
+        searchableTexts.add(accountRequest.getName());
+        searchableTexts.add(accountRequest.getEmail());
+        searchableTexts.add(accountRequest.getInstitute());
+
+        if (accountRequest.getComments() != null) {
+            searchableTexts.add(accountRequest.getComments());
+        }
+        if (accountRequest.getStatus() != null) {
+            searchableTexts.add(accountRequest.getStatus().toString());
+        }
+
+        fields.put("id", accountRequest.getId().toString());
         fields.put("_text_", String.join(" ", searchableTexts));
         fields.put("email", accountRequest.getEmail());
         fields.put("institute", accountRequest.getInstitute());
+        if (accountRequest.getComments() != null) {
+            fields.put("comments", accountRequest.getComments());
+        }
+        if (accountRequest.getStatus() != null) {
+            fields.put("status", accountRequest.getStatus().toString());
+        }
 
         return fields;
     }
diff --git a/src/main/java/teammates/storage/sqlsearch/AccountRequestSearchManager.java b/src/main/java/teammates/storage/sqlsearch/AccountRequestSearchManager.java
index c5dc5d44428..5325836af32 100644
--- a/src/main/java/teammates/storage/sqlsearch/AccountRequestSearchManager.java
+++ b/src/main/java/teammates/storage/sqlsearch/AccountRequestSearchManager.java
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import java.util.Comparator;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.UUID;
 
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrQuery;
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.response.QueryResponse;
@@ -35,9 +36,8 @@ AccountRequestSearchDocument createDocument(AccountRequest accountRequest) {
 
     @Override
     AccountRequest getEntityFromDocument(SolrDocument document) {
-        String email = (String) document.getFirstValue("email");
-        String institute = (String) document.getFirstValue("institute");
-        return accountRequestsDb.getAccountRequest(email, institute);
+        UUID id = UUID.fromString((String) document.getFieldValue("id"));
+        return accountRequestsDb.getAccountRequest(id);
     }
 
     @Override