Country English Proficiency Exemptions

Updated 9/02/2022
(Determination from the CIA World Factbook)

You are exempt from the English proficiency assessment if your home country is one of the following countries whose native language is English:

  • American Samoa

  • Anguilla

  • Antigua & Barbuda

  • Australia

  • Bahamas

  • Barbados

  • Belize

  • Bermuda

  • British Virgin Islands

  • Canada (except Quebec)

  • Cayman Islands

  • Dominica

  • Fiji

  • Gambia

  • Ghana

  • Gibraltar

  • Grenada

  • Guyana

  • Ireland

  • Jamaica

  • Kenya

  • Kiribati

  • Lesotho

  • Micronesia

  • New Zealand

  • Saint Helena

  • Saint Kitts & Nevis

  • Saint Lucia

  • Saint Vincent & Grenadines

  • Singapore

  • Sint Maarten

  • Trinidad & Tobago

  • Turks and Caicos Islands

  • United Kingdom

  • Virgin Islands