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    <h2>Updates as of October 20, 2026</h2>
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        <p>The October 2026 FSOT window runs October 10 to October 31, 2026, and registration for it closes on October 30, 2026.</p>
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        <p>The next window is January 30 to February 6, 2027. Registration opens on December 31, 2026 and closes on January 28, 2027. Pearson VUE prints the closing date as &quot;January 28, 2026&quot;, which is before registration opens, so we read it as 2027, and it marks all dates &quot;subject to change&quot;.</p>
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        <p>Results: Pearson VUE says the score report candidates receive right after the exam indicates whether they passed or failed. &quot;Scores are under review&quot; on a Pearson profile means scores are being processed; it is not the result.</p>
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        <p>Candidates invited to the Foreign Service Officer Assessment (FSOA) start by scheduling the Written Exercise on one of the dates in the 5-day window named in the invitation letter, at a Pearson test center or online through OnVUE. Within two weeks of completing it, Pearson sends an invitation to schedule the Structured Interview and Negotiation Exercise. No date for invitations to candidates from the October 2026 window was published on October 20, 2026.</p>
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        <p>Candidates may test only once in a 12-month period, and an application is valid only for the window it was made for.</p>
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The FSOT and the stages after it, at a glance

On April 1, 2026 the State Department said it had returned to a Written Examination to replace the Qualification Evaluation Panel. Neither Pearson VUE nor the State Department pages we read on October 20, 2026 give a passing score as a number or a pass rate, so this page states neither.

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Registration has two steps, submitting an application and selecting a seat, both in the same period of about five weeks before a window.

<p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://www.pearsonvue.com/us/en/fsot.html">Pearson VUE, FSOT</a></p>

What to do next depends on where you are in the process. The dates below are Pearson VUE's; the advice is ours.

Your score report shows whether you passed or failed. If you are invited to the FSOA, the Written Exercise is the first step and must be taken on one of the dates in the 5-day window named in your invitation letter, so practise timed writing before the letter arrives. The fuller explanation is in our FSOT scoring guide.

Registration opens on December 31, 2026 and closes on January 28, 2027. You can test only once in a 12-month period, so a candidate who sat in any 2026 window (February-March, May, July or October) cannot sit in February 2027, while one who last sat in October 2025 can (our arithmetic from that rule).

Check your own 12-month date before you register. Our FSOT dates guide has a calculator for the next window you can sit.

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