I have got my acceptance letter from a college 20 days before my TOEFL expiration date. I am planning to apply for study permit within a day or two. But it is said that Canadian immigration takes a month or two for visa approval but till then my score will be expired.
Do I have to take a language test before applying for the study permit?
Does the Canadian Immigration checks the score/score validity before issuing study permit?
My case is exactly same as yours
My IELTS expiry date was Jan 2018
Got accepted into the university on December 2017
Applied for the study permit on March 2018
My visa got accepted with the expired IELTS
I have no clear explanation for this as there can be many reasons why visa got approved with expired IELTS.
It could be because it was valid when I applied for the university.
It could be that IRCC just wants proof that you have good English skills to be able to study and live in Canada as their first language is English.
It could also be that my previous education was English curriculum. I provided my IGCSE and A Level results and in my IGCSE result, i have English as a second language.
What i can tell you is expired English proficiency does work and i am the proof that it does. However i cant tell for sure as to how it worked and what the visa officer saw in my file that convinced them from not asking for an updates IELTS.
I also had an overall band of 7.5 with 7.5 in all the departments.
