Dual or Multiple Citizenship - Q & AQuestion No 8.I am a female citizen of Malta (having been born in Malta in 1965) and have been working in Belgium for the last ten years. During this period I married a French citizen and for reasons of employment and easy travel in Europe I acquired also French citizenship. When I made enquiries about dual citizenship in 1996 the Citizenship Department in Malta informed me that since I became a citizen of a country in which I have never resided I did not qualify to hold dual citizenship. Have the recent citizenship amendments changed my situation? Yes. It is no longer a requirement for dual citizenship qualification that a person acquires the citizenship of the country in which that person has resided or resides. Hence you can live in Belgium and acquire French citizenship as in your case. As you now fulfil the requirements of section 9 of the Maltese Citizenship Act you have reacquired Maltese citizenship automatically and you may retain it together with your French citizenship.
  
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