Effective June 26, 2010, Citizenship and Immigration Canada made an important change to permanent residence applications by making it mandatory for the submission of an English or French language proficiency test. As of that date, if the principal applicant has not submitted International English Language Testing System or a Test d’Evaluation de Français test results, his application will be returned to him, marked as incomplete. This is the case even for those applicants having been born, raised and educated in English speaking jurisdictions such as the United States, England and Australia.