Returning to the country with a Maltese passport

Generally speaking, when a person immigrates, he either moves to another country to live permanently, or he does not live permanently but has the nationality or right of residence of this country. Just like you live in Beijing but don’t necessarily have a Beijing household registration, you can immigrate to live in Malta, but you don’t necessarily have to have a Maltese passport, but a green card. In addition to not having political rights such as “voting for president”, It is no different from an ordinary Maltese, so of course you don’t have to worry that one day your Chinese passport will be withdrawn.

Most immigration countries in the world have several residence statuses to satisfy those who do not want to change their passports but want to immigrate here. For major immigration countries such as Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, regardless of whether they are investment immigrants or skilled immigrants, they first obtain a permanent residence card (PR). If you want to get a passport from these countries, you still have to meet many requirements, and you also need to go through application and approval. After all, you have to become a citizen of another country. In the future, you will have the right to vote for everything from the mayor to the prime minister. So you have to be careful and get your passport in one step. It is not that easy.

The second concept is that we know that some countries in the world recognize "dual nationality." Malta is one of the countries that recognizes dual citizenship. But for the Chinese, this is actually of no use... Because in China, except for citizens of Hong Kong, Macao and other places, mainlanders are not allowed to have dual nationality. If you have immigrated and taken a passport from another country, then According to the regulations, you must make a choice to give up a passport from a country.

After understanding the above two concepts, I believe you already have a clear answer to this "fish and bear's paw" question. In fact, if you want to retain Chinese nationality after immigrating to Malta, you can choose not to naturalize in Malta and just hold a Malta green card as required by the government. It not only meets the needs of immigrants, but also realizes the dream of retaining Chinese nationality. Isn’t it wonderful to have the best of both worlds?