Declaring permissions on Google Play

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Hello,

How have people been publishing their apps to Google Play? We've been trying along with contacting support for the last month to no avail, they've switched from the form to using the play console. Only problem is that to submit a request to get permission to use the required permissions you need an app release with those permissions, and we can't create an app release since we don't have permission to use those permissions even in the internal testing track...

Does anyone have any insights on what we're missing?

Some related links I've found:

• https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/thread/293618179/request-for-assistance-with-health-connect-permissions-approval
• https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1f6fyjn/where_is_the_new_health_connect_approval_process/

Thanks