Acquisition Of Maltese Citizenship By Birth - Q & A Question No 27I was born in England in 1952 of parents and paternal grandparents all born in Malta. I am a Maltese citizen as I renounced my British citizenship between my eighteenth and nineteenth birthday. In 1976 I married a Maltese citizen and my wife and I settled in England later that year. My son was born in that country in 1978. Am I correct in assuming that my son has now re-acquired Maltese citizenship automatically? In your case you are a citizen of Malta (although born abroad) because your father and one of your paternal grandparents were also born in Malta - you are known as the first generation born abroad. Although when your son - the second generation born abroad - was born, you were (and still are) a citizen of Malta, you did not transmit Maltese citizenship to him because the relative section of the Constitution (now of the Maltese Citizenship Act) stipulated accordingly. That is, the first generation born abroad cannot transmit its Maltese citizenship to the second generation born abroad. Your son, therefore, did not have a claim to Maltese citizenship. However, as he was born during the period 21 September 1964 and 1 August 1989 of a mother who was a citizen of Malta at the time of his birth he may now be registered as a citizen of Malta.
   
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