The Recipient Requirements

• Only recipients who deliver Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) and Cours de Langue pour les Immigrants au Canada (CLIC) training that meets the following six criteria have the authority to issue Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) and Cours de Langue pour les Immigrants au Canada (CLIC) certificates:
• A Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) or the Niveaux de compétence linguistique canadiens (NCLC) based placement assessment or an instructor-led in-class assessment would need to precede the training
• The training must be aligned to the National Language Placement and Progression Guidelines (NLPPG)
• The training would need to remain based on the Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) or the Niveaux de compétence linguistique canadiens (NCLC) framework
• The training would need to adhere to the curriculum guidelines as prescribed by the Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) and Cours de Langue pour les Immigrants au Canada (CLIC), or the provincial Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) or the Niveaux de compétence linguistique canadiens (NCLC) based curriculum guidelines
• A qualified instructor would need to lead the training
• This denotes that the instructor would need to have taken training in Canada – or in a recognised foreign educational institution – for teaching English or French as a second language
• The training would need to conclude with an evaluation of evidence collected throughout the term for determining the learner’s progress in accordance with the Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) or the Niveaux de compétence linguistique canadiens (NCLC) scale
• The recipients would need to print all certificates in black on white paper, letter size and signed manually or electronically by the recipient’s Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) and Cours de Langue pour les Immigrants au Canada (CLIC) coordinator
• The Case Processing Centre in Sydney would need to authenticate Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) and Cours de Langue pour les Immigrants au Canada (CLIC) certificates submitted with citizenship applications through the Immigration Contribution Agreement Reporting Environment system (iCARE)
• Thereafter, the recipients would need to ensure that they update the clients’ language results upon certificate issuance or shortly after certificate issuance
• In addition, the recipients would need to check that the clients have responded with a ‘Yes’ to the question “Was a certificate issued to the client?”
• In the case of Ontario residents, the recipients would need to upload the clients’ language results from History of Assessments, Referrals and Training system (HARTs) to the Immigration Contribution Agreement Reporting Environment system (iCARE)
• The recipients might come across cases where some Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) and Cours de Langue pour les Immigrants au Canada (CLIC) recipients reside in the eastern and western regions of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC)
• In this scenario, these recipients would need to note that they would continue to have access to private groups on Tutela.ca
• As such, they would be able to download their certificates from this site
• It is worth highlighting that the authorities would only give access to these groups to Tutela users who indicate that they are language administrators for a given Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) and Cours de Langue pour les Immigrants au Canada (CLIC) recipient
• Similarly, Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) and Cours de Langue pour les Immigrants au Canada (CLIC) recipients located in Ontario, would need to continue generating their certificates from History of Assessments, Referrals and Training system (HARTs)

Source: Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC)