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Secondary diploma instead of language test?

live4film

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May 17, 2018
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I took the CELPIP years ago when I got PR. I was looking at the language section in the citizenship application and there is an option that reads "degree, diploma, certificate or official transcripts from a secondary or post-secondary education program showing you studied in English or French, in Canada or abroad.

Is this specific to some other secondary language transcript, or can my official transcript for graduate school work? It's a masters degree so it counts as "secondary". But I'm not sure if that is what they actually want. It says studied "in" English. It's kind of ambiguous. All my schooling has been taught in English...or do they mean that I actually studied English as a school subject?

If that's not the case and I do end up having to take another language test, do I have to take the same CELPIP again or is there a language test specific to citizenship?
 

forw.jane

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I took the CELPIP years ago when I got PR. I was looking at the language section in the citizenship application and there is an option that reads "degree, diploma, certificate or official transcripts from a secondary or post-secondary education program showing you studied in English or French, in Canada or abroad.

Is this specific to some other secondary language transcript, or can my official transcript for graduate school work? It's a masters degree so it counts as "secondary". But I'm not sure if that is what they actually want. It says studied "in" English. It's kind of ambiguous. All my schooling has been taught in English...or do they mean that I actually studied English as a school subject?

If that's not the case and I do end up having to take another language test, do I have to take the same CELPIP again or is there a language test specific to citizenship?
Why are you not attaching the CELPIP test report from your PR for your citizenship application?
 
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live4film

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I was told that I cannot use the the one I did for PR. Almost everyone at my work said they had to submit something new.
 

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I took the CELPIP years ago when I got PR. I was looking at the language section in the citizenship application and there is an option that reads "degree, diploma, certificate or official transcripts from a secondary or post-secondary education program showing you studied in English or French, in Canada or abroad.

Is this specific to some other secondary language transcript, or can my official transcript for graduate school work? It's a masters degree so it counts as "secondary". But I'm not sure if that is what they actually want. It says studied "in" English. It's kind of ambiguous. All my schooling has been taught in English...or do they mean that I actually studied English as a school subject?

If that's not the case and I do end up having to take another language test, do I have to take the same CELPIP again or is there a language test specific to citizenship?
Your 'expired' CELPIP results should work. I used my IELTS score from PR application in 2010 when applying for citizenship.
 

dkfk

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Ok thanks. I'll look for it, should be somewhere around. Hopefully I can find it
I used a scan of my master's diploma (not even a transcript) from a US university. I had no issues with the language requirement.
 

swan0206

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I used a scan of my master's diploma (not even a transcript) from a US university. I had no issues with the language requirement.
Great! This is what i was looking for. Thanks for the update. So just to make clear, they had accepted it and your LPP was completed fine right?