TCF and TEF exam booking in Canada: how to register, fees and test centres

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Seat calendar: TCF and TEF sessions and registration windows

There is no national date: according to FEI, TCF Canada sessions run all year and each centre organises them as it can. This table lists what each centre’s own public page showed. Checked on 5 November 2026, around 1 am Vancouver time; the centre’s website prevails. Seats and status are as shown at that moment, and they can change within minutes.

A row leaves this table when its window closes, or two weeks after our check if the centre shows no window. Numbers in brackets are seats left at that moment.

The pages we read for Alliance Française Ottawa, Alliance Française de Montréal, UQAM and Collège Mathieu (sessions every month, dates in its registration form) show no list of sessions. We have not read the session lists of the other centres below: open their sites.

How far ahead centres open

From the windows on these pages, past and future, as read on 5 November 2026:

• Alliance Française Vancouver: about a week, two to four months before the test.
• Alliance Française Victoria: about two weeks, roughly two months before the test.
• Alliance Française d’Edmonton: most TCF windows lasted about an hour, between 5 days and 5 weeks before the test; TEF windows lasted from a few hours to two days.
• Alliance Française Toronto: fixed dates each quarter, at 10 am.

What the centres themselves advise

• Alliance Française Victoria and Alliance Française Vancouver: log in to your account in advance and have your passport number ready before registration opens. Opening several tabs or refreshing again and again may cancel your reservation.
• Alliance Française d’Edmonton: new dates go on its page as soon as they are available, and heavy traffic when they do may cause technical problems. Questions about dates get no individual reply, and you cannot book in person or by email.
• Alliance Française Calgary: no button or “Sold Out” means no seats remain. A button can stay visible just after a session fills, so refresh the page. Do not call reception about seats.
• Alliance Française Toronto: if a session is not listed, it is full. There is no waiting list, but spots sometimes open up, first come, first served. You can hold only one registration at a time.
• Alliance Française Ottawa: if no date is available, check its site regularly; it gives no dates by email or phone.
• Ashton Testing Services: its FAQ says new dates come out in the middle of each month, with no waiting list or mailing list.

TCF exam booking and TEF exam booking, step by step

1. Choose the right test. Both are accepted by IRCC; see TCF vs TEF. Check the version as well: TCF Canada is not TCF Québec, and centres leave that choice to you: Alliance Française d’Edmonton says it is your responsibility.
2. Find a centre. For the TCF, use France Éducation international’s list; the centres in Canada are below. For the TEF, use CCI Paris Île-de-France’s search tool. FEI tells you to contact the approved centre closest to your home. Book only with a listed centre: Alliance Française Vancouver warns that fake websites offer fraudulent certificates.
3. Watch its registration period. Start with the seat calendar above. FEI and CCI do not publish a common calendar: the centre sets its dates and its fee. Alliance Française Calgary and Alliance Française d’Edmonton say their page is all they can tell you about dates.
4. Book and pay. Have your passport number ready and log in before registration opens, as Alliance Française Vancouver advises. Do not open several tabs: its page warns this may cancel your reservation. The name you enter must match the ID you will bring.
5. Wait for your invitation. It comes by email: about a week before the test at Alliance Française Vancouver and Alliance Française d’Edmonton. Ashton Testing Services asks you to write if you have nothing 5 days before.
6. Bring the right ID. It varies: only a passport at Alliance Française Vancouver, two photo IDs at Alliance Française Calgary. Read your invitation.

What the TCF and TEF exams cost

Neither FEI nor CCI sets a fee: each centre does. Fees below are as each page showed them on 5 November 2026. “Not shown” means we did not find it on the page we read, not that the centre does not run the test. More on the TCF Canada fees and TEF Canada fees pages.

Alliance Française Ottawa and Alliance Française Vancouver call the listening and speaking version of the TEF Canada their citizenship version. Check on IRCC’s website which tests your application needs before you pay for a shorter version.

Test centres by province

All 50 centres are on FEI’s list for the TCF on 5 November 2026. The TEF column is ticked only where the centre’s own page says it runs the TEF Canada; a dash means we did not check, not that it does not. For the TEF, CCI’s search tool is the reference. FEI marks most of them as offering computer sessions; the University of Victoria says its tests are on paper, so check the format when you book. The links go to each centre’s own website; a few of FEI’s links no longer open, so we give the same organisation’s current site.

British Columbia

Alberta

Saskatchewan

Manitoba

Ontario

Quebec

New Brunswick

Nova Scotia

Newfoundland and Labrador

Nunavut

Cancellation and refunds: read the terms before you pay

• Alliance Française Vancouver: any purchase is final, with no refund, credit, new date or transfer to someone else.
• Ashton Testing Services: no refund, cancellation or transfer. A new date only with a medical certificate, if approved, for CA$150.
• Alliance Française Calgary: no refund or deferral. It adds that rare technical issues can cancel a session at the last minute, and that it does not pay for travel or accommodation.
• Alliance Française d’Edmonton: registration is final, with no refund, transfer or credit. If you arrive late or without the ID you registered with, you cannot sit the test and get no refund.
• Université Concordia: all registrations are final and not refundable.
• Alliance Française Toronto: no refund, but you can move your booking up to 15 days before the exam (30 for a paper TCF) for CA$100, and rebook within 6 months.
• Alliance Française Ottawa (TEF): CA$100 is kept if you cancel or change the date before the registration deadline; after that, no refund and no change.
• TEF Canada, according to CCI: registration is firm and final. For a serious reason (illness, work, death of a relative), you give the centre proof, and CCI may offer a new registration there at no extra cost. An unjustified absence is not refunded.

Retakes and results

You can take the TCF Canada as often as you like, 20 days apart according to FEI. CCI sets the same wait for the TEF Canada. Each attempt is a new booking with a new fee. FEI has also suspended re-marking of the writing and speaking tests for about a year from the sessions of 1 September 2026.

Results depend on the centre: 1 to 2 weeks at Alliance Française d’Edmonton (except December and August for the TCF), up to 4 weeks at Alliance Française Vancouver, within 6 weeks at Alliance Française Calgary. FEI says TCF results come 15 working days after it receives the material. More: TCF Canada results.

TCF and TEF exam booking: FAQ

Sources and dates

• France Éducation international, TCF centres in Canada (5 November 2026).
• France Éducation international, TCF Canada page (French): sessions, 20-day rule, results, re-marking (5 November 2026).
• CCI Paris Île-de-France, TEF Canada registration (French): fee set by the centre, firm registration (5 November 2026).
• CCI Paris Île-de-France, finding a centre (French): each centre is your only contact (5 November 2026).
• The centres’ own pages, linked in the tables above (5 November 2026).

TCF Canada Coach is an independent preparation tool with no link to France Éducation international, CCI Paris Île-de-France, IRCC or the centres listed. We are not a test centre and do not take bookings.