The government agency responsible for processing and granting of Maltese citizenship is struggling to cope as applications increased drastically over the last years, the Times of Malta is informed. Following various complaints received by this newspaper from applicants complaining that their requests for citizenship have been "stuck for years" at Identity Malta, this newspaper was informed that the number of applications "through the normal channels" have more than doubled in the last five years. While refusing to give information on how many applications were currently pending at Identity Malta, a spokeswoman for the agency said that last year "the number of applications for Maltese citizenship increased by 53 per cent when compared to 2011". Excluding applications related to the scheme selling Maltese passports – technically known as the Individual Investor Programme – Identity Malta said that in 2016 the agency received 1,233 applications for citizenship by registration and another 410 applications for citizenship by naturalisation. At the same time, the agency said that during 2016, the agency processed a total of 1,641 applications out of which 333 were turned down. Last...
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