Comments by "Jeremy Barlow" (@jeremybarlow2291) on "Five Ways to Get Second Citizenship in 2021: the Ultimate Guide" video.

  1. Most of the CBI countries will allow this, some require you to live in the country for as little as 5 days and as he explained, Malta wants you there for 18 months. I have a friend whose father was a German citizen at the time of his birth in the US who is going through the process of obtaining German citizenship he is entitled to under German law by birth as a descendent of a German citizen. As I understand it, he should not have to go to Germany to obtain his citizenship. This is often the case for citizenship by descent. If you are eligible through descent, you can typically obtain a passport and other citizenship paperwork for most countries that allow it from an embassy or consulate in the country you are living in, so long as you can obtain the documents you need. My friend's parents are both alive and have the documentation he needed to establish his eligibility to obtain citizenship. If you need documentation from the country of your parent's citizenship, then you may or may not have to go there to get the documentation. It really depends on whether or not you can obtain the documentation by correspondence. My friend's father naturalized as a US citizen after his birth, if he had naturalized before his birth, he would not have been eligible to obtain German citizenship, but because it was subsequent to his birth he is legally German by birth through descent regardless of what his father did after his birth.
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  2.  @anonymousanonymous6735  Residents of British Overseas Territories who naturalize as BOT Citizens often at the discretion of the Home Office in the UK are also naturalized as British Citizens, the majority of the time if you are naturalized as a BOTC you should also obtain UK citizenship as I understand it, but technically that is discretionary to the home office. Having said that, if you were not going to be granted UK citizenship, I suspect you also would be denied BOT citizenship. You technically "register" as a UK citizen after obtaining the BOT citizenship. It is a fairly wonky and bureaucratic process. Native born BOT Citizens & those who were BOT Citizens on the date the law went into effect granting British Citizenship to all BOT Citizens were made citizens of the UK proper automatically. There are lots of ways to become a UK citizen, but BOT Citizenship does not necessarily convey permanent residency or "belonger" status rights to a particular British Overseas Territory. Some BOTs do grant all rights of "belonger" status to BOT naturalized citizens, others require as much as 20 years of residency on the island to obtain "belonger" status and depending on the territory - in most you can obtain BOT citizenship with 5 years of residency just like 5 years living in the UK will provide UK citizenship so long as you have went through the process of obtaining "permanent leave to remain." The UK citizenship & residency laws and the BOT Citizenship rules confused the hell out of me and I say that as a lawyer who spent forever reading the rules. Oh and UK proper citizenship does not in any way so far as I can tell grant any residency rights to a British Overseas Territory. The internal immigration rules of the territory provide for that.
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  3.  @edwardsiswantosantoso8933  I'll admit I'm not 100% sure about Malta. I know that you have to own or rent property there for a period, but I thought there was a residency requirement which may or may not also be a purely legal residency requirement.
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