TOEFL requirement for u.s green card holder??????

Question

i m going to be a u.s green card holder in may or june this year. i want to do an undergraduate course in united states. just tell me that if i get green card before taking admission then toefl is required or not for me to take admission .

Answer 1

TOEFL has nothing to do with having a green card. I didn't have to take it, even though my native language isn't English, because I got my middle and high school education in US. However, for my Russian-speaking friend from high school TOEFL was obligatory because she was in ESL. She was a green-card holder, and I wasn't.

On the www.ets.org site it says:
"Many institutions report that they frequently do not require TOEFL test scores of certain kinds of international applicants. These include

* nonnative speakers who hold degrees or diplomas from post secondary institutions in English-speaking countries (e.g., the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand)
* nonnative speakers who have successfully completed at least a two-year course of study in which English was the language of instruction
* transfer students from institutions in the United States or Canada whose academic course work was favorably evaluated in relation to its demands and duration.
* nonnative speakers who have taken the TOEFL test within the past two years
* nonnative speakers who have successfully pursued academic work at schools where English was the language of instruction in an English-speaking country for a specified period, generally two years."