Date: 6th April 2015 Approved Secure English Language Tests and Test Centres 6th April 2015 The following are the lists of approved secure English language tests and test centres that have been assessed as meeting the Home Offices requirements 6th April 2015. Anyone taking a test on or after 6th April 2015 that they intend to use in a UK immigration application must take one of the tests listed in table 1 at one of the approved test centres in table 2 or table 3. Table 1 also details the CEFR level and minimum grade requirements for each level. Anyone who has taken a previously approved test on or before 5th April 2015 may still use it in a UK immigration application until 5th November 2015 providing the test is one of those detailed in the Transitional Approved Tests list which can be found at this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-applying-for-uk-visa-approved-english-language-tests Table 1: Approved Secure English Language Tests Approved Secure English SELT provider Awarding body Level Minimum grade required Test validity Documents required with application Contact details Language Test Integrated Skills in English Trinity College London Trinity College London A2 Integrated Skills in English Trinity College London Trinity College London B1 Integrated Skills in English Trinity College London Trinity College London B2 Integrated Skills in English Trinity College London Trinity College London C1 Integrated Skills in English Trinity College London Trinity College London C2 Graded Examinations in Spoken English Graded Examinations in Spoken English Graded Examinations in Spoken English IELTS Life Skills IELTS SELT Consortium IELTS Life Skills IELTS SELT Consortium IELTS IELTS SELT Consortium IELTS IELTS SELT Consortium IELTS IELTS SELT Consortium IELTS IELTS SELT Consortium Trinity College London Trinity College London A1 Trinity College London Trinity College London A2 Trinity College London Trinity College London B1 ISE Foundation ISEI ISEII ISEIII ISEIV GESE Grade 2 pass in speaking and listening GESE Grade 3 or above pass in speaking and listening GESE Grade 5 or above pass in speaking and listening A1 Pass B1 Pass B1 B2 C1 C2 Listening: 4.0; Speaking: 4.0; Reading: 4.0; Writing: 4.0 Listening: 5.5; Speaking: 5.5; Reading: 5.5; Writing: 5.5 Listening: 7.0; Speaking: 7.0; Reading: 7.0; Writing: 7.0 Listening: 8.5; Speaking: 8.5; Reading: 8.5; Writing: 8.5 2 Years 2 Years 2 Years 2 Years April 2015 Approved Secure English Language Tests and Test Centres v1.0 1 of 8
Table 2: Approved SELT test centres in UK Please refer to the SELT providers website for test availability. Provider Trinity College London 58500 Trinity Belfast SELT Centre Forsyth House, Cromac Square, Belfast, County Antrim BT2 8LA UK UK permanent 06 April 2015 Trinity College London 58501 Trinity Birmingham SELT Centre Lonsdale House, 52 Blucher Street, Birmingham B1 1QU UK UK permanent 06 April 2015 Trinity College London 58502 Trinity Cardiff SELT Centre Temple Court, 13a Cathedral Road, Cardiff CF11 9HA UK UK permanent 06 April 2015 Trinity College London 58503 Trinity Glasgow SELT Centre The Centrum Building, 38 Queen Street, Glasgow G1 3DX UK UK permanent 06 April 2015 Trinity College London 58504 Trinity Leeds SELT Centre West One Building, 114 Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 1BA UK UK permanent 06 April 2015 Trinity College London 58505 Trinity London Hammersmith SELT Centre 26-28 Hammersmith Grove, London W6 7BA UK UK permanent 06 April 2015 Trinity College London 58506 Trinity London Holborn SELT Centre 88 Kingsway, London WC2B 6AA UK UK permanent 06 April 2015 Trinity College London 58507 Trinity Manchester SELT Centre Peter House, Oxford Street, Manchester M1 5AN UK UK permanent 06 April 2015 Trinity College London 58508 Trinity Newcastle SELT Centre Milburn House, Dean Street, Newcastle NE1 1LE UK UK permanent 06 April 2015 Trinity College London 58509 Trinity Peterborough SELT Centre Stuart House, East Wing, St John s Street, Peterborough PE1 5DD UK UK permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Belfast UK UK permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Edinburgh UK UK permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Cardiff UK UK permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Birmingham UK UK permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Manchester UK UK permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium London North UK UK permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium London Central UK UK permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium London West UK UK permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium London East UK UK permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Bath UK UK permanent 06 April 2015 April 2015 Approved Secure English Language Tests and Test Centres v1.0 2 of 8
Table 3: Approved SELT test centres in Rest of the World Please refer to the SELT providers website for test availability. Please note, RoW pop-up centres will provide testing at least one every quarter. Provider IELTS SELT Consortium Kabul Afghanistan RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Tirana Albania RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Algiers Algeria RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Luanda Angola RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Buenos Aires Argentina RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Yerevan Armenia RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Sydney Australia RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Vienna Austria RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Baku Azerbaijan RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Nassau Bahamas RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Manama Bahrain RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Dhaka Bangladesh RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Sylhet Bangladesh RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Bridgetown Barbados RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Minsk Belarus RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Brussels Belgium RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Hamilton Bermuda RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Sarajevo Bosnia & Herzegovina RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Gaborone Botswana RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Brasilia Brazil RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Rio De Janeiro Brazil RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Sao Paulo Brazil RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Sofia Bulgaria RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Rangoon Burma RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Phnom Penh Cambodia RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Yaounde Cameroon RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Vacouver/Edmonton Canada RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium St Johns Canada RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Ottawa Canada RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Toronto Canada RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium George Town Cayman Islands RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Santiago Chile RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Beijing China RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Chengdu China RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Chongqing China RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Fuzhou China RoW permanent 06 April 2015 April 2015 Approved Secure English Language Tests and Test Centres v1.0 3 of 8
IELTS SELT Consortium Guangzhou China RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Hangzhou China RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Hong Kong China RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Jinan China RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Nanjing China RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Shanghai China RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Shenyang China RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Shenzhen China RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Wuhan China RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Bogota Colombia RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Cali Colombia RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Medellin Colombia RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Zagreb Croatia RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Havana Cuba RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Nicosia (North) Cyprus (North) RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Nicosia (South) Cyprus (South) RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Prague Czech Republic RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Copenhagen Denmark RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Santo Domingo Dominican Republic RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Quito and Guayaquil Ecuador RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Alexandria Egypt RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Cairo Egypt RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Tallinn Estonia RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Addis Ababa Ethiopia RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Suva Fiji RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Helsinki Finland RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Paris France RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Tbilisi Georgia RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Dusseldorf Germany RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Accra Ghana RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Athens Greece RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Georgetown Guyana RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Budapest Hungary RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Reykjavik Iceland RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Ahmedabad India RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Bangalore India RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Chandigarh India RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Chennai India RoW permanent 06 April 2015 April 2015 Approved Secure English Language Tests and Test Centres v1.0 4 of 8
IELTS SELT Consortium Cochin India RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Goa India RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Hyderabad India RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Jalandhar India RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Kolkata India RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Mumbai India RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium New Delhi India RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Pune India RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Bali Indonesia RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Jakarta Indonesia RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Baghdad Iraq RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Erbil Iraq RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Dublin Ireland RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Tel Aviv Israel RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Rome Italy RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Abidjan Ivory Coast RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Kingston Jamaica RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Osaka Japan RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Tokyo Japan RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Amman Jordan RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Almaty Kazakhstan RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Astana Kazakhstan RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Atyrau Kazakhstan RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Mombasa Kenya RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Nairobi Kenya RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Pristina Kosovo RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Kuwait City Kuwait RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Bishkek Kyrgyzstan RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Vientiane Laos RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Riga Latvia RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Beirut Lebanon RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Tripoli Libya RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Skopje Macedonia RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Antananarivo Madagascar RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Lilongwe Malawi RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Kuala Lumpur Malaysia RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Sabah Malaysia RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Sarawak Malaysia RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Male Maldives RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 April 2015 Approved Secure English Language Tests and Test Centres v1.0 5 of 8
IELTS SELT Consortium Valletta Malta RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Port Louis Mauritius RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Mexico City Mexico RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Chisinau Moldova RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Ulaanbaatar Mongolia RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Podgorica Montenegro RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Rabat Morocco RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Maputo Mozambique RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Windhoek Namibia RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Kathmandu Nepal RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Amsterdam Netherlands RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Wellington New Zealand RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Abuja Nigeria RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Lagos Nigeria RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Pyongyang North Korea RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Oslo Norway RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium East Jerusalem Occupied Palestinian Territories RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Gaza Occupied Palestinian Territories RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium The West Bank Occupied Palestinian Territories RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Muscat Oman RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Islamabad Pakistan RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Karachi Pakistan RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Lahore Pakistan RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Panama City Panama RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Port Moresby Papua New Guinea RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Lima Peru RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Cebu Philippines RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Manila Philippines RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Warsaw Poland RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Lisbon Portugal RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Doha Qatar RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Bucharest Romania RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Ekaterinburg Russia RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Moscow Russia RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Novosibirsk Russia RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Rostov-on-Don Russia RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium St.Petersburg Russia RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Kigali Rwanda RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Al Khobar Saudi Arabia RoW permanent 06 April 2015 April 2015 Approved Secure English Language Tests and Test Centres v1.0 6 of 8
IELTS SELT Consortium Jeddah Saudi Arabia RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Riyadh Saudi Arabia RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Dakar Senegal RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Belgrade Serbia RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Freetown Sierra Leone RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Singapore Singapore RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Ljubjana Slovenia RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Cape Town South Africa RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Durban South Africa RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Johannesburg South Africa RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Port Elizabeth South Africa RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Pretoria South Africa RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Seoul South Korea RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Juba South Sudan RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Madrid Spain RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Colombo Sri Lanka RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Castries St Lucia RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Khartoum Sudan RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Paramaribo Suriname RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Stockholm Sweden RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Geneva Switzerland RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Taipei Taiwan RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Dushanbe Tajikistan RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Dar Es Salaam Tanzania RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Bangkok Thailand RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Tunis Tunisia RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Adana Turkey RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Ankara Turkey RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Antalya Turkey RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Bursa Turkey RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Gaziantep Turkey RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Istanbul Turkey RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Izmir Turkey RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Ashgabat Turkmenistan RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Kampala Uganda RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Gibraltar Gibraltar RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Kiev Ukraine RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates RoW permanent 06 April 2015 April 2015 Approved Secure English Language Tests and Test Centres v1.0 7 of 8
IELTS SELT Consortium Dubai United Arab Emirates RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium New York United States RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Los Angeles United States RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Chicago United States RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Miami United States RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Boston United States RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Austin United States RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Tashkent Uzbekistan RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Caracas Venezuela RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Hanoi Vietnam RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam RoW permanent 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Lusaka Zambia RoW pop-up 06 April 2015 IELTS SELT Consortium Harare Zimbabwe RoW permanent 06 April 2015 April 2015 Approved Secure English Language Tests and Test Centres v1.0 8 of 8