French-language draw eligibility checker
Four quick checks. Find out if anything stands between you and a French-language category draw.
- Did you take TEF Canada or TCF Canada?Not TEF Québec, TCF Québec or TCF Tout Public.
- Are all four skills at NCLC 7 or higher?Listening, reading, writing and speaking — each one, no averaging.
- Is your test date less than two years ago?And will it still be valid when you submit your PR application?
- Have you entered the results in your Express Entry profile?For TEF, the “Équivalence ancien score”, not the /699 score.
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Answer each check. We’ll tell you the first thing standing between you and a French-language draw.
How it works
To be eligible for French-language proficiency draws you need NCLC 7 or higher in all four French skills on TEF Canada or TCF Canada, with results under two years old.
This checker walks through each requirement and tells you the first thing to fix.
- ✓ Right-test check
- ✓ NCLC 7 in all four skills
- ✓ Result validity
- ✓ Clear next step
Common questions
No. IRCC accepts only TEF Canada and TCF Canada for French. TEF Québec, TCF Québec and TCF Tout Public are not accepted.
NCLC 7 in all four skills — for TCF Canada that is listening 458, reading 453, writing 10 and speaking 10.
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