LNB News 02/05/2025
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Issue Date: 02 May 2025
Published Date: 02 May 2025
Jurisdiction(s): England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
The Home Office’s commercial partner for verifying overseas qualifications, ECCTIS, has made some changes to its online services, and raised one of its fees. The previous online Visa and Nationality service has been replaced with a new ‘Qualification and Language Service’ (QLS) which offers two different services: ‘English proficiency and qualification comparison’ and ‘qualification comparison’. The English proficiency and qualification comparison will check whether an overseas qualification is comparable to a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in the UK, and the level of English proficiency, on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), needed to complete the course. Where the institution is in a Home Office-specified majority English speaking country, the comparison will not state an English level. Ecctis will also contact the institution to check that the qualification is genuine. The Qualification comparison applies only to applicants in the Skilled Worker route who are applying under...
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