Hello

Created a users using below python code and it created archived user. After that, I unarchive the user using action menu and it worked. 

self.env['res.users'].create({
    'name': 'Mike Organizer',
    'login': 'mike@organizer.com',
    'active': False,
})

Thanks & Regards,

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Never faced this issue, but you could create them without any powers and then add them in a group which gives them the according powers they would need. Would that work?

You could also make it the other way around, create them as part of a group which has no powers and then just remove them from that group.

At last, one last option would be to create the user as active, and right after that update it to make it inactive.

All of that aside, I do not know why you can't create them as inactive. I guess you tried to create them as active and it worked.