MALTESE PASSPORT

[angstinabaggyjumper]

I have a Maltese great grandfather does anyone know if that makes me eligible to get a Maltese passport please?

From googling you'd need to have a Maltese parent

Where do you live?

dementedpixie
Good point!
Scotland.

integration.gov.mt/en/ResidenceAndVisas/Pages/Acquisition-of-Maltese-citizenship-automatically-by-Birth.aspx

Google is your friend

xyzandabc

It's not that cut and dried.

GAINING CITIZENSHIP VIA DESCENT

Foreigners can acquire citizenship provided they can prove Maltese descent. If you are a direct descendant, second or subsequent generation, born abroad of an ascendant who was born in Malta of a parent who was also born in Malta you can acquire Maltese citizenship via registration.

Documents Required:

1. Birth certificate of applicant

1. Birth and marriage certificate of ascendants

Interesting, now I've looked through those pages I've realized I'm Maltese by birth.

It looks like you have to go Malta to apply for your first passport. Think I'll talk to a lawyer out there and see how complicated it is.

I'd love to have an EU passport plus it would really piss off my Brexiter parents.

HoldMyLobster
Glad to be of service!
I can't believe more people aren't looking in to this. You have got further than I have in understanding the site. Previously it stated a Maltese parent or grandparent but the wording has changed.
The way things are going here I would love to have an EU Passport and for the first time ever would consider moving abroad.

From this page
www.maltaimmigration.com/

Wondering how to get a European passport if you have Maltese ancestors? Amendments to the country's Citizenship Act in August 2007 make it easy for direct descendants of Malta citizens to obtain an EU second passport. Maltese citizenship by ancestry enables anyone with documentation showing direct descent from an ancestor born in the country of a parent who was also born on the islands to fill out a Malta citizenship application and obtain a European passport. Even if you have no plans to ever invest in Malta, if you have Maltese parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents, our Malta immigration team can assist you in attaining dual citizenship in Europe as well as a second EU passport.

HoldMyLobster

Oooh This is getting exciting! Thank you!

My grandma was maltese. Can I get maltese passport via that? My mum was not born in malta but is applying for maltese as it was her mother, but im struggling to work out whether I can get it myself through descent

So I've been communicating with the Maltese embassy in Washington DC (as I live in the US) and I'm going ahead with the citizenship application. I was able to get my Maltese birth certificate by applying online.

Because I was born after 1964 I have to provide a shit ton of documentation such as my birth cert, my marriage cert, my fathers' birth cert, my paternal grandfather's birth cert, my parents' marriage cert, my paternal grandparents' marriage cert etc. All of this is in case I was born outside Malta, which seems a little redundant given that I was born in Malta, but my experience of immigration systems is that they list the hoops and we jump through them.

I also have to prove I've lived outside Malta for at least 6 years as I'm applying for dual citizenship.

They are quite helpful - they have a standard email they send you that outlines the process to go through. You send off all the docs for citizenship, and they go off to Malta. It takes about 6 months to get citizenship.

They also sent me the info on how to get the passport once I have citizenship, but it's so far away I haven't even thought much about it. But I will have to go to the Embassy in person to get it.

Anyway, my advice is to ask the Embassy if you have questions.