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Hi, My wife applied for UK citizenship and provided her “ Entery Level Certificate in ESOL skills for Life (Entery 2)” and Life in UK pass notification. She received certificate on 16 August 2012. She made her application for UK citizenship in September.
Her application was refused stating she didn’t fulfil the knowledge in UK life requirement. We applied through council citizenship checking service and they confirmed her ESOL qualification is valid before November 2015.
Casework hasn’t any other details in refusing letter. Now we have right for review. Could anyone please help me with this that why her application was refused and what do we do now...

mip090 wrote:Hi, My wife applied for UK citizenship and provided her “ Entery Level Certificate in ESOL skills for Life (Entery 2)” and Life in UK pass notification. She received certificate on 16 August 2012. She made her application for UK citizenship in September.
Her application was refused stating she didn’t fulfil the knowledge in UK life requirement. We applied through council citizenship checking service and they confirmed her ESOL qualification is valid before November 2015.
Casework hasn’t any other details in refusing letter. Now we have right for review. Could anyone please help me with this that why her application was refused and what do we do now...

The requirement for proof of English (before this November) included ESOL qualifications at B1 level of CEFR;
for example an ESOL Speaking & Listening qualification at Entry 3 (or above).

If an ESOL certificate was submitted at Entry 2 level that may have triggered the refusal.

It is most unfortunate.
The NCS should have been capable of identifying such a discrepancy before submitting the application.

It's a longshot but if your wife can now take an acceptable SELT & submits a pass certificate you could make a plea to have it accepted.
However in light of the initial refusal there are no guarantees and there is no right of appeal in naturalisation cases.