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SCG Malta
You'd be surprised how many Australian citizens inhabit the tiny island nation of Malta in the Mediterranean. According to DFAT, about 4,000 of the 394,583 people on the island hail from Down Under, which means Aussies comprise approximately one percent of the population. And that's not counting those in the country who were born in Australia of Maltese descent and moved back to Australia as minors, who had to chose Maltese citizenship over Australian when they reached majority. Those people (about 2,000 individuals) will soon be able to apply to resume their renounced Australian citizenship under new legislation which is presently making its way through Parliament in Canberra.
If you're in Malta, please get in touch to say hello. Before you send a question of any nature to the SCG, however, please read our general policy on answering queries below.
SCG Contacts in Malta
Both our SCG Malta volunteers are former Australian citizens who were born
in Australia but moved back to live in Malta while they were still children.
Both had to formally renounce their Australian citizenship before their 19th
birthdays in order to keep their Maltese citizenship in adulthood. Both are
looking forward to becoming Australian citizens again once new legislation
in Parliament in Canberra at the moment is adopted and operational - hopefully
in the second half of 2006.
Norman Bonello
Co-ordinator for Malta
Southern Cross Group
"Morning Glory"
19, Mattia Preti Street
Siggiewi
MALTA
Telephone: +356 21 468 329
Mobile: +356 79 468 329
E-mail: norman@southern-cross-group.org
Norman is ably assisted by Mario Schembri, an engineer who runs his own environmental consultancy business:
Mario Schembri
SCG Volunteer
Mobile: +356 99 496 883
E-mail: mario@southern-cross-group.org
We receive many queries every day from Australians around the world. The flood of e-mails is now of such a volume that our volunteer committee is stretched to its limits. While we want to hear your thoughts and views, before you send us a message, please read the following. This will allow us to use our limited resources as effectively as possible, so that we can spend less time answering e-mails and more time developing policy submissions and doing other work of importance to the whole Australian expatriate community.
Requests to be put on the SCG E-Bulletin List
If you simply wish to be put on the SCG's free e-mail bulletin list, please sign yourself up directly rather than writing to us. This will ensure that you automatically receive updates on the progress of our various issues as events occur. Our e-mail list is powered by List Builder software and you can unsubscribe yourself at any time. We do not share your personal contact details with any other individual or organisation.
Requests for Advice on Citizenship, Immigration and Other Matters - Please Make a Donation
Quite a few questions people address to us by e-mail are already comprehensively answered on our website. Please use the search facility at the top of this page to search our whole website BEFORE you e-mail us. You should also check relevant government websites for information before you write to us.
We are receiving an increasing number of complicated queries from people wanting specific advice on their personal citizenship or immigration situation. Some of these queries can take one of our volunteers several hours to answer properly. Requests of this nature should really be addressed to a qualified immigration lawyer in the relevant jurisdiction, rather than to the SCG. While we aim to provide support to members of the Australian diaspora within the confines of our limited volunteer resources, we are not a free immigration and citizenship advice bureau. And it is disheartening to spend a great deal of time preparing responses to these queries when often the recipients even forget to thank us.
We do have a number of lawyers on our volunteer SCG Committee, qualified in various jurisdictions. Some of them have expertise in immigration and citizenship matters. If you send us a query which we judge will take more than 15 minutes to answer, we will e-mail you back and ask you to make a donation of a suggested amount to the Southern Cross Group before we provide you with an answer. You can make your donation using the Amazon Honor System. Your donation will help us pay for website hosting and the many other expenses we face in running the SCG. This is a small way that you can say thank you for the support we provide you with.
You can contact us using our general e-mail address or the e-mail address of the SCG Committee Member nearest you.
