Urgent help on English test on naturalisation application

Good morning ,I got a disturbing email today from the home office ,in 2016 I applied for indefinite leave and I used my B1 test too but application was refused .I was told I should apply for indefinite in 2017 which I did by submitting my B1 test from Trinity college and it was granted .I applied for naturalisation July 2021 and I received this email now and I quote

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Thank you for your application for British Citizenship. We need further information to enable us to consider your application. Please send all the documents listed below to the following address: nationalityfurtherinformationrequests@homeoffice.gov.uk
If you do not send this information by 5/11/21 your application may be refused. Please include your name and our reference number in any correspondence to us.

Evidence of KOLL

Evidence of English language and knowledge of life in the UK
Your life in the UK is accepted, however your English language qualification was taken more than 2 years prior to your application. Also your qualification was not accepted at your indefinite leave to remain grant as you were exempt at time. Therefore we require a English Language qualification please see below for further advice on how to obtain.
Evidence that you meet the requirement for knowledge of English language. You can find out the different ways to show you meet the English language requirement here: pls what should I do now

Good morning ,I got a disturbing email today from the home office ,in 2016 I applied for indefinite leave and I used my B1 test too but application was refused .I was told I should apply for indefinite in 2017 which I did by submitting my B1 test from Trinity college and it was granted .I applied for naturalisation July 2021 and I received this email now and I quote



Thank you for your application for British Citizenship. We need further information to enable us to consider your application. Please send all the documents listed below to the following address: nationalityfurtherinformationrequests@homeoffice.gov.uk
If you do not send this information by 5/11/21 your application may be refused. Please include your name and our reference number in any correspondence to us.

Evidence of KOLL

Evidence of English language and knowledge of life in the UK
Your life in the UK is accepted, however your English language qualification was taken more than 2 years prior to your application. Also your qualification was not accepted at your indefinite leave to remain grant as you were exempt at time. Therefore we require a English Language qualification please see below for further advice on how to obtain.
Evidence that you meet the requirement for knowledge of English language. You can find out the different ways to show you meet the English language requirement here: pls what should I do now

Your English language test is valid for 2 years from the date of your naturalisation application.....

benefit10 wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 15, 2021 7:55 am

I was told I should apply for indefinite in 2017 which I did by submitting my B1 test from Trinity college and it was granted .

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Also your qualification was not accepted at your indefinite leave to remain grant as you were exempt at time. Therefore we require a English Language qualification please see below for further advice on how to obtain.

Under what category did you apply for ILR? If you were exempt from KoLL or English Language B1 at the time of your successful ILR application, then they are correct. Else, they are mistaken.

Were you exempt from the English Language requirement when applying for ILR?

If, as the HO say, you were exempt from the English language requirement when your ILR was granted, and therefore your now expired English test wasn't used for the ILR, then unfortunately you'll have to prove your knowledge of English again by one of the ways set out in the HO email.

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3yrs x 2 discretionary leave to remain, then applied for ilr in 2016, which was refused on d basis that I haven't finished 6yrs of discretionary leave ,then I applied for ilr again 2017 by submitting seto form same day and was granted .I used the b1 test for the 2 ilr application

and also I just booked another b1 test with trinity college for Sunday 17 of Oct, will it be accepted if I send them the examination results instead of the certificate ,will they accept the examination result ,as the certificate will take weeks to get to me ,and home office gives till Nov 5 till prove my English ,thanks

Your B1 test result and certificate

If you have passed, you can then use your UER number to proceed with your UKVI application.