Albania citizenship provide Serval benefits for it’s holders, but before discussing the benefits of Albanian passport let follow the required steps for obtaining Albanian citizenship and Albanian passport.
Albania is beautiful country with it’s not touched nature and a subtropical meditr climate, this country is located in southeastern Europe from where you can access to both Europe and middle east. Albania is a safe country far from political agresions, you can have a quiet enjoying life and business.
If you want to get Albanian citizenship and be a resident of this country here we listed the most important steps to follow and get the Albanian citizenship.
1- Verify the Requirements
Let spouse you want to apply for Albania citizenship and become an Albanian national, the first step you should take is to understand all the requirements and Verify it though official authorities, yes you have to look for official goverm websites and check the requirements, you may read some blogs to understand the requirements but in same time you need to verify and confirm it again from the official authorities.
When you learn all the requirements and collect all the information regarding how to get the and apply Albania citizenship than you can start work on your application and be ready for next step.
2- Head to a lawyer
Getting citizenship a serious matter you can’t take the risk and just want apply for citizenship by your general knowledge, you have to take it seriously, professionally and don’t waste your time your resources.
So soous you started preparing for Albania citizenship under the lawyer guide, now you to confirm again all requirements, know the process though the lawyer and start for 3 step.
3-Choosing Your Category
After verguin all the documents and taking a lawyer now you have to collect all the documents, you know which documents are required.
Here is the short list for different categories:
There different requirements and need different documents for each category, for example a person applying for Albanian citizenship by marriage another person want to apply through Naturalization.
Albania citizenship by Naturalization
Any foreigner who want to become an alnajisn citizen he/she can apply for Albania citizenship if he fullfil the requirements.
Albanian citizenship requirements by Naturalization
- You must be above 18 years old
- You should lived in Albania legally with resident permit for 7 years
- You should live at least with the minimum living standards in Albania, for example a person should have at least 20 Square meters residence
- You need to have a legal source of income, you shouldn’t generate less than minimum wage in Albania, currently in 2024 minimum wage is 343 US dollars in Albania
- You should not have a criminal record that convicted you for three years or more, the presence of criminal record effect negatively your citizenship application
- You should know the Albanian language at elementary level, you should be able to speak and write
- You have to understand the history of Albania
- There should not be any treat form you to the Albania’s national security
Albanian Citizenship by Birth
Any person who born in Albania is Albanian, it don’t change fi the parents are not Albanian nationals, if a person born in Albania he come Albanian citizen directly.
Albania is one of those few countries in Europe that support birth citizenship, mostly American countries support birth citizenship right but in Europe most of countries don’t support birth citizenship right and if some of these countries support it, this is with some conditions which is not very easy at all.
When a child born in Albania first the parents need to take his birth certificate and than apply for his/her citizenship and identity card.
Albania citizenship by marriage
Albania make easy citizenship for those foreigners who are married with albanian citizens, a foreigner who is married to albanian citizen can apply for citizenship after 3 year’s of marriage, there a condition that the foreigner should stay in Albania in these three years at least ond year.
In fact citizenship by marriage is a Naturalization citizenship, just by marriage the time of wait is reduce, for normal naturalization a person should wait for 7 years but if he or she is married with albanian citizen than this time reduce to 3 years.
Marriage to albanian citizen is not only reduce the time of waiting beside that this help a foreigner to get his citizenship easy because in this case he don’t need to have a language test.
4- Collect Your Documents
After choosing the category that you are eligible now it’s time to collect all your documents, with the main requirements like living for 7 years in Albania if you not married you have to together all other documents like the identification proof it can be passport or national identity card, residency permit, financial statements.
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Be aware that the government may request any additional documents at any time, so be careful about this, check all requirements few times, check date of expiration and also check the documents through another person also.
5- Apply for Citizenship
Now you collected all the required documents and verified it that these all documents are complete and correct, it’s time to apply for Albanian citizenship.
Collect these all documents than we guide how to to start applying:
- A request of citizenship to the president of Albanian Republic
- Birth certificate which should be confirmed by the Albanian embassy in your country
- Marriage certificate if you are married it should also apostilled by Albanian embassy
- Residence Permit in Albania
- Notarized Lease of housing in Albania
- Notarized copy of your work agreement if you are self employed a tax form
- Criminal Record history confirmed by embassy, mostly it should be issued by your country’e embassy
- Criminal Record history from Albania within your residence
- A Bank statement or income certificate in Albania it should verify your financial independence
- A proof of your 7 year’s residency in Albania by Albanian by border and migration police
- You need language certificate from an educational foundation in Albania about language and also Albanian history
- You also need to take a good character report or certificate from local police where you live in Albania
- 3 photos
- And finally fee payment slip
Now you collected all these documents, you should go to the local police centre to apply for citizenship, the local police will send your application to interior ministery, the final decision will make the interior ministery after a positive response the report will send to Albanian president after approving and publishing in official gazette you will be come Albanian national.
Ersin is a freelener journalist, he has a 4 years experience in travel content creation. he is now a full time member of traveli24.com group.
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