New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- Foreign nationals planning to get Permanent Residency in Canada will soon have another language testing option to prove their English proficiency. Canada's Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) will start accepting the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) Essentials in near future, reported CICNews.

Currently, the IRCC is not accepting the TOEFL test, but it will update its official website once acceptance starts.

This move will enable foreign citizens under its permanent residency program to take the TOEFEL test in order to prove English language proficiency.

On Thursday, the Education Testing Service (ETS), the organization that conducts the TOEFL, said that it had been added as a designat...