Hi
That's the weirdest thing i have heard from someone of bobby's calibre!!!! That visa officers are not trained to assess your language ability?
The reason for ielts is for them to be sure you are who you are with regards to language assessment. My immediate senior brother scored
7 in writing, 6.5 in speaking, 4 in listening 7 in reading. He was called for an interview. My brother said the visa officer was concerned about him scoring 4 in listening. He is still awaiting final decision. If you think they are not trained to assess your language ability, i am sorry it is at your own peril bobby.
You may think it is weird, but your very wrong. From the OP 06 processing manual
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Officers may no longer assess language proficiency at interview; rather, they must either:
a) rely on the results of a test done by an approved testing organization as conclusive
evidence of an applicant's level of language proficiency (R79(1)(a)) (refer to Section
10.5); or
b) evaluate written evidence of proficiency submitted by the applicant against the
Canadian Language Benchmarks 2000 / Standards linguistiques canadiens 2006
(R79(1)(b)) (refer to Section 10.10).
I think you owe Bobby an apology.
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