Acquisition Of Maltese Citizenship By Birth - Q & A Question No 28I emigrated to Australia with my parents in 1954 when I was three years old. All the members of my family were born in Malta. In 1974 I married an Australian citizen and my daughter was born in Australia in 1979. My husband is of the view that my daughter can now acquire Maltese citizenship. Is that correct? Your husband is correct. Technically that is your daughter's position; the law now provides for those children born abroad between the 21 September 1964 and the 1 August 1989 to a mother who was a citizen of Malta at the time of their birth, to apply for registration as citizens of Malta. In your daughter's case, however, as she is an Australian citizen and as according to the Australian citizenship law, an (Australian) adult who by a voluntary act acquires another citizenship, shall lose his Australian citizenship, she will lose her Australian citizenship if she were to apply to be registered as a citizen of Malta. Therefore, although under Maltese law your daughter can acquire Maltese citizenship without having to lose her current citizenship, she is apparently prohibited from doing so under Australian law.
  
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