I am Ye Yingping, born in 1977. I came to Newcastle, a remote area in Australia, to work as an electrician with a 482 employer-sponsored visa in July 2019. Half a year later, I brought my two sons and wife to Newcastle. At that time, my sons were studying in grades 7 and 10 here, and the tuition fee was $6,000 per person per year. Because it is a remote area, my wife did not find a full-time job for a year after she came to Newcastle. She finally found a full-time job in a restaurant after a year, but the income was low. Our two incomes barely maintained our lives after deducting various expenses. Our wish is to get PR in a few years and be able to have the conditions to let our children receive          university education here, be able to better integrate into the local culture and work and live here for a long time.
         Before I came to Australia, I had been working as an electrician for more than 20 years. In the two years I came here, I finally passed the electrician occupational assessment and completed the courses required by the electrician and successfully obtained the Australian electrician license. During this period, I used my rest time to continuously study English and prepare for the PTE test, because according to the current immigration policy, if I want to apply for PR, I must submit the application before I am 45 years old. But after I took the test three times, the epidemic broke out, causing all related test centers to close one after another for about six months. At the same time, because of being busy and tired at work, my employer did not give me any leave to study English alone, which eventually led to me not getting a qualified transcript before I was 45 years old. There was no choice but to submit the PR materials two days before I was 45 years old. At that time, I submitted a transcript with only one point less in speaking (speaking 49 points), which required 4 parts of 50 points, and wrote an application for late submission of transcripts due to the impact of the epidemic. 9 days after submitting the application, I finally got a qualified transcript and submitted it immediately.
          One year after submitting the application, the immigration bureau sent me an email saying that my late submission of transcripts application was not approved, because I could take other types of English tests due to the impact of the epidemic, and said that they would refuse my PR application. I replied to the immigration bureau that other types of test centers were also closed due to the epidemic. Unfortunately, on May 1st, 2023, I still received a rejection letter from the immigration bureau saying that I did not meet the PR application requirements. I almost collapsed at that time, because by this time my eldest son was already studying electrical engineering at the University of New South Wales. If I get PR, the tuition fee will be only more than $6000 per year. Now that PR has been rejected, I need to pay more than $50000 for my eldest son. Plus living expenses, it will cost at least more than $70000 pear year. Because my son studies very hard and has good grades, I can't bear to let him give up his studies, but at the same time my current income can no longer support him going to college, let alone my younger son going to college in the future. So now I am in a desperate situation and don't know what to do. Maybe one day if I really can't hold on anymore, I can only choose to give up, but that is the result I don't want to see.
          I could only beg someone to help me signing this petition so that the immigration bureau may pay attention and give me this person who just turned 46 years old with reliable skills and rich work experience who worked hard in Australia during the epidemic a way to get PR or be able to reconsider my PR decision, because for those of us who hold employer-sponsored visas, we have paid more effort and taxes than other visa holders. And for Australia, what is lacking are people with rich work experience and skills. However, these people are generally older. If it is simply because of late submission of English transcripts for a few days or older age that my PR application is rejected , May I ask if this is not the greatest cruelty to us, the real skilled workers.
         I sincerely hope someone could extend your helping hand and help me sign this petition in your busy schedule, please!