ENGLISH PROFICIENCY REQUIREMENTS BY COUNTRIES Proof of English Proficiency IS NOT REQUIRED of applicants from the following countries: Antigua Belize Grenada Irish Northern Ireland Tobago Australia Canada (Except the Republic Scotland Wales Bahamas province of Quebec) Jamaica St. Kitts Zimbabwe Barbados Cayman Islands Nevis St. Vincent Bermuda Great Britain New Zealand Trinidad Proof of English Proficiency IS REQUIRED of applicants from the following countries: Afghanistan Costa Rica Iraq Morocco Slovenia Albania Cote d'Ivoire Israel Mozambique Solomon Islands Algeria Croatia Italy Myanmar, {Burma} Somalia Andorra Cuba Ivory Coast Namibia South Africa Angola Curacao Japan Nauru South Sudan Argentina Cyprus Jordan Nepal Spain Armenia Czech Republic Kazakhstan Netherlands Sri Lanka Aruba Denmark Kenya Nicaragua Sudan Austria Djibouti Kiribati Niger Suriname Azerbaijan Dominica Korea, North Nigeria Swaziland Bahamas Dominican Republic Korea, South Norway Sweden Bahrain East Timor Kosovo Oman Switzerland Bangladesh Ecuador Kuwait Pakistan Syria Belarus Egypt Kyrgyzstan Palau Tonga Belgium El Salvador Laos Panama Taiwan Benin Equatorial Guinea Latvia Papua New Guinea Tajikistan Bhutan Eritrea Lebanon Paraguay Tanzania Bolivia Estonia Lesotho Peru Thailand Bosnia & Ethiopia Liberia Philippines Togo Herzegovina Fiji Libya Poland Tonga Botswana Finland Liechtenstein Portugal Tunisia Brazil France Lithuania Puerto Rico Turkey Brunei Gabon Luxembourg Qatar Turkmenistan Bulgaria Gambia Macedonia Romania Tuvalu Burkina Faso Georgia Madagascar Russia Uganda Burma Germany Malawi Rwanda Ukraine Burundi Ghana Malaysia St Lucia United Arab Cambodia Greece Maldives Saint Vincent & the Emirates Cameroon Guatemala Mali Grenadines Uruguay Canada, Quebec Guinea Malta Samoa Uzbekistan Cape Verde Guinea-Bissau Marshall Islands San Marino Vanuatu C African Rep. Guyana Mauritania Sao Tome & Principe Vatican City Congo Haiti Mauritius Saudi Arabia Venezuela Chad Honduras Mexico Senegal Vietnam Chile Hungary Micronesia Serbia Western Sahara China Iceland Moldova Seychelles Yemen Colombia India Monaco Sierra Leone Yugoslavia Comoros Indonesia Mongolia Singapore Zambia Congo Iran Montenegro Slovakia BJ/J1 Scholars Revised 12/15/2014 .