Teju said:
Good morning my people. I'm new here though I've been on the other general threads for quite some time. I submitted my application for nomination in May 2013, my IELTS was done in April. I just Got nominated last month and we asked them if the IELTS can still be used for CIO and they said yes. I submitted with the old IELTS and a lot of people have been doing it with results. Now i can see someone saying so far it has not expired before submitting to CIO. Please I'm confused!! Thanks.
My friend,
IELTS requirement matter at the time of apply depends on the province which nominated you and also your local visa office. There is a common spreadsheet between each province and CIC and nominated applicant's information will be added to that spreadsheet by province and CIC will refer to check if IELTS is needed by province for that applicant or not. For example nominated applicants from Saskatchewan(SINP) don't need to send IELTS with their application to CIO because Saskatchewan don't need that but it is possible for some other provinces they need it.
After file transfer to local visa office, many of them don't need valid IELTS result but for example there were cases from London visa office that they asked for valid IELTS result from applicant.
At the moment don't worry and just wait. I think they won't ask for valid IELTS result from you and everything will be OK in your case.
