From what we have been told my wife needs to take another pointless test as you say at £150, she has worked face to face in a bank for 16 years conversing with customers and achieved a grade A at level B2 exactly 2 years ago. She now can go and do a trinity exam which is 10 minutes chatting nonsense ...

Yes it is the Home Office and it stinks of incompetence, irrationality and corruption, I just looked at one of the approved tests now the Trinity GESE Grade 5 exam, and it is an absolute doddle compared to the FCE level B2 exam. It seems that they are scrapping off the harder qualifications and ...

It is still very unclear to me after reading those FAQ's, This one states Q6: What if my qualification (Q4) has expired? Some qualifications on the Home Office’s list will expire after 2 years. If you’re applying for citizenship you can still use an expired test if your B1 level qualification was acc ...

My wife is Brazilian and has been living in England since May 2000 and working full time for the vast majority of this time she arrived on a fiancee VISA which was changed to a spouse Visa in June 2000 and an indefinite leave to remain in June 2001 , a couple of years ago she decided to try to get ...