Yes, you can use a federal or provincial language program to prove that you meet the language requirement for your citizenship application.
## Federal language program
When you submit your citizenship application, you need to include a language certificate from a Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) course, or Cours de langue pour les immigrants au Canada (CLIC)
Your results for speaking and listening skills must be equal to either a language level 4 or higher of the
Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB), orNiveaux de compétence linguistique canadiens (NCLC)
If you did your training on or after November 1, 2012, submit a copy of your certificate with your application between January 1, 2008, and October 31, 2012, either
submit a copy of your certificate, orcheck the appropriate box in your application if you don’t have your certificate
## Provincial language program
We also accept results from language programs in:
* British Columbia (in English only)
* Manitoba (in English only)
Nova Scotia
* Ontario
* Quebec’s Ministère de l’Immigration, de la Diversité et de l’Inclusion (in French only)
Quebec’s Ministère de l’Éducation, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche
* Saskatchewan
Submit a certificate or report card from the program. It must show that you completed the training at a CLB/NCLC level 4 or higher (or equivalent).
See the complete list of acceptable documents if you apply as an adult (18 or older)a Canadian Armed Forces member
Source: cic.gc.ca
FAQ
Most frequent questions and answers
Co-operative education is a three-way partnership between the university, students and employers. Students apply their classroom knowledge in a series of four-month work experiences. You, the employer, enhance a student’s education, while reaping the unique benefits of CO-OP employees.
- Year-round access to well-motivated, qualified employees.
- Access to potential full-time staff in a controlled environment, reducing your costs and risks.
- Access to a cost-effective source of temporary employees for peak periods or special projects.
- A say in what students learn by working with the university.
- Promotion of your organization as one that believes in developing the potential of young people.
- Access to a great pool of French-speaking, English-speaking and bilingual students.
Most work terms run at least 15 weeks, or four months. They can be no shorter than 13 weeks. Some master’s students, as well as some science and engineering students, are available for 8 or 12 months’ work terms.
All jobs are reviewed by a CO-OP Program Coordinator, and only those providing students with work experience related to their professional development are approved. Administrative activities involved in a job should be less than 10% of the entire workload.
When you first contact SSC, you are assigned one of our Program Coordinators, depending on your discipline of interest. This person is your main contact in our office. As you move through the recruitment process, you also work with a representative from CO-OP Administrative Services, who assists with job posting and interview scheduling.
Internships offer usually one discipline-specific, supervised, structured paid or unpaid, and for academic credit work experience or practice placement.
Work Experience intersperses one or two work terms (typically full-time) into an academic program, where work terms provide experience in a workplace setting related to the student’s field of study and/or career goals.
Community Service Learning (CSL) integrates meaningful community service with classroom instruction and critical reflection to enrich the learning experience and strengthen communities. In practice, students work in partnership with a community-based organization to apply their disciplinary knowledge to a challenge identified by the community.
Field Placement provides students with an intensive part-time/short term intensive hands-on practical experience in a setting relevant to their subject of study. Field placements may not require supervision of a registered or licensed professional and the completed work experience hours are not required for professional certification. Field placements account for work-integrated educational experiences not encompassed by other forms, such as co-op, clinic, practicum, and internship.
