Greetings from South Africa

Sorry - this is supposed to be in the introductions thread ...

Dolby1980 wrote:

Sorry - this is supposed to be in the introductions thread ...

That's quite alright, welcome to the Expat.com site and the Maltese Forum.

SimCityAT
Expat Team

Dolby1980 wrote:

Hi,

I am born and bred in South Africa - although I'm keeping an eye out to possibly leave the country.

My grandfather on my mothers side was born in Valletta in the early 1920s before moving to South Africa and setting up his life here. A few years back she started the ancestral process to see if she could become a Maltese citizen - and the process was successful!

She then wanted to see if it was possible that we (my brother and myself) could also become a citizen and - although the process was far longer - we also successfully became citizens January 2018.

We're coming through to visit the place next month and hopefully our EU passport.

Nice to 'meet' you all!

With the EU passport the borders are open. After you have discovered Malta,Gozo and Comino in 2 weeks the whole EU world is open to you. We have  regular ferry connections to Sicily and flight connections to almost all the European countries. As you are young enough learn Italian,French or German. All these countries you can visit without being checked by immigrations and customs. There is only one little problem when you want to drive all the countries on the EU mainland drive on the right. By car you can reach Rome in Italy within 12 hours and Austria and Germany within 24 hours.

There is no such thing as an EU passport each country has its own rules and regulations. So, therefore, you will be gaining a Maltese passport which is part of the EU.

SimCityAT wrote:

There is no such thing as an EU passport each country has its own rules and regulations. So, therefore, you will be gaining a Maltese passport which is part of the EU.

As a Maltese citizen you will be getting a European Union Passport. The colour of the passport is the same in all the member states. After European Union the passport will name your country of origin.
The rules and regulations are the same in all the Schengen agreement countries of which Malta is a member. This is not applicable to the UK and Ireland.

hanselmar wrote:

SimCityAT wrote:

There is no such thing as an EU passport each country has its own rules and regulations. So, therefore, you will be gaining a Maltese passport which is part of the EU.

As a Maltese citizen you will be getting a European Union Passport. The colour of the passport is the same in all the member states. After European Union the passport will name your country of origin.
The rules and regulations are the same in all the Schengen agreement countries of which Malta is a member. This is not applicable to the UK and Ireland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passports … pean_Union

hanselmar wrote:

SimCityAT wrote:

There is no such thing as an EU passport each country has its own rules and regulations. So, therefore, you will be gaining a Maltese passport which is part of the EU.

As a Maltese citizen you will be getting a European Union Passport. The colour of the passport is the same in all the member states. After European Union the passport will name your country of origin.
The rules and regulations are the same in all the Schengen agreement countries of which Malta is a member. This is not applicable to the UK and Ireland.

The EU does not issue passports, member countries simply follow a common format.

So just to add ... I've gone to and returned from Malta, with my passport I'm an EU citizen. I didn't have time to go into a bank, but as I don't live there (with an address) I don't think a bank would assist me with a bank account.

Citizenship and passport are fine by me for the time being