EPE Registration Requirements 

To write the EPE, you must be at least 18 years of age.

When you apply, you must provide acceptable documentation that both:

• Verifies your identity (including name and picture), and
• Demonstrates that you meet the requirements for age.
  

This documentation must be a copy of 1 or more pieces of government-issued photo identification that includes:

1. Your name,
2. Your date of birth,
3. A photograph that shows your current likeness, and
4. Your signature.

Your identification should be valid—current and not expired—and in full colour. The identification you provide to the College should be the same identification you will provide to the test centre or proctor for verification on the day of the exam.

The following documents meet the above standards:

• The “details” pages of a valid Canadian passport (your passport must be signed to be valid)
• The “details” pages of a valid foreign passport (your passport must be signed to be valid)
• Both sides of a form of valid Canadian government-issued photo identification bearing your current likeness, such as a driver’s licence or a non-driver's identification card
• For Quebec residents only, as Quebec does not issue a non-driver's identification card, both sides of a valid provincial health card
• Both sides of a valid Canadian Permanent Resident Card; or
• Both sides of a valid Certificate of Indian Status issued by Indigenous Services Canada (ISC).

**Required for all candidates except graduates from the Queen’s University and University de Montréal graduate diploma programs, as these 2 programs have integrated the College’s language ability requirement into their admission requirements.**

Applicants must be able to communicate with College staff. Licensees must be able to communicate with the College, government agencies, clients, and other professionals.

For these reasons, we ensure that applicants have the language skills to write the exam and function effectively as licensees of the College.

To meet the language proficiency requirement, you must demonstrate you have achieved at least the equivalent of Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) Level 9 for English or Niveau de compétence linguistique Canadien (NCLC) Level 9 for French.

You must achieve this score no more than 2 years before writing your Entry-to-Practice Exam.

The following language tests and scores are acceptable minimum equivalents to CLB and NCLC requirements:

To register for the Entry-to-Practice Exam (EPE) and become a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC), you must first achieve at least the minimum required score on a College-approved English or French Language Ability Test.

 * One of the two

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• Please ensure you have informed the language testing centre that you are taking their test to register for the EPE.
• Please ensure you have authorized the language testing centre to release your scores to the College.
• If you have your official or unofficial score report, please remember to upload it into the proper field in the online registration portal.
• If you require assessment accommodations for the language test, these accommodations should be requested from the language test provider.

EXCEPTIONS:

• If you did not meet the passing scores in all 4 categories of your language test (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), you can write a second language test and combine the passing scores for each category of the 2 tests. Note: The IELTS - Academic, CELPIP - General, and CanTEST are the only English tests that can be combined. For French, only the TEF and TCF Canada can be combined. The CAEL tests cannot be combined with other tests, only passing scores from a single CAEL test will be accepted.
• No more than 2 language ability test attempts can be combined to meet the minimum required scores.
• If the minimum required score is achieved by combining 2 language test attempts, the second test must be taken less than 12 months after the first.
• Both language ability test attempts must be taken less than 2 years before your EPE date.
• Both language ability test attempts must be complete tests that include all 4 tested language skills. Tests for all 4 skills in 1 attempt must be taken on the same day.
• As the CanTEST has been discontinued, its results will no longer be accepted after August 15, 2022.