Chilean Citizenship by Descent Service

We confirm your claim, retrieve Chilean records, and handle the civil registry and consulate steps until your Chilean citizenship is recognized.

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Your citizenship already exists. Proving it across two countries is the hard part.

If your parent or grandparent was born in Chile, the law is on your side: the nationality has been yours by blood all along. The challenge is purely documentary: a birth certificate issued decades ago, name spellings that drifted between countries, and registrations that must be filed in the right order with the consulate and the Registro Civil, all in Spanish. Most stalled cases fail on a missing record or a misfiled registration, not on eligibility. We run the entire process for you, remotely, from the first record search until your Chilean citizenship is recognized.

This service is for you if

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Your parent or grandparent was born in Chile, and you want that nationality recognized as yours

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You live outside Chile, may never have lived there, and want the whole process handled remotely

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Your family's Chilean records are missing, incomplete, or somewhere in a registry you cannot search yourself

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You want a Chilean passport for yourself, and eventually the ability to pass citizenship on to your children

What we handle for you

One point of contact for every step, from the first family record to your Chilean ID and passport.

Eligibility check & Chilean records

Before you spend anything on apostilles or translations, we confirm that your claim stands on solid ground.

✓Honest eligibility analysis based on your family history, including grandparent cases that need a two-step registration
✓Retrieval of your ancestor's Chilean birth certificate from the Registro Civil
✓Searches for birth/marriage certificates and other civil records needed to prove the chain from your ancestor to you
✓Resolution of name spellings that drifted between countries, so your documents tell one consistent story

File preparation & registration

We prepare a complete, correctly sequenced file and handle the registration with the Chilean consulate and the Registro Civil.

✓A personalized checklist of the foreign documents you need, with clear instructions for apostilles
✓Official Spanish translations arranged for every document that needs one
✓Registrations filed in the right order: in grandparent cases, your parent's inscription first, then yours

Follow-up to ID & passport

We stay on your case until your citizenship is recognized and you can request your Chilean documents.

✓Follow-up with the consulate and the Registro Civil until your birth is inscribed in Chile
✓Immediate notice whenever an institution requests something, so your case keeps moving
✓Your Chilean birth certificate and RUN obtained once inscribed
✓Guidance to request your Chilean ID card and passport as the final step

Your citizenship by descent timeline

Typical durations observed across past cases. Every family history is different, and processing times are set by Chilean institutions.

Records & eligibility

1-3 months

Locating the Chilean birth certificate and mapping the registration chain. Quick when records are easy to find, but longer when certificates sit in regional offices or were never issued.

Documents & registration

1-3 years

Apostilles, translations, and registration through the consulate serving your area. Parent-line cases with documents in hand typically move in a year. However, grandparent cases involving a chain of registrations take several years in total.

Chilean ID & passport

3-4 weeks

Once your birth is inscribed and you have your RUN, you can request your Chilean ID card and passport like any other citizen.

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Eligibility

Who qualifies for Chilean citizenship by descent?

If your mother or father was born in Chile, you qualify, regardless of where you were born or whether your parent ever renewed a Chilean passport. If your grandparent was born in Chile, it is very often still possible as a two-step process: your parent is registered as Chilean first, and then you register as the child of a Chilean. Adopted children generally hold the same rights as biological children.

Is there a generational limit?

Yes. Chilean nationality passes from parent to child, as long as 1) each generation in the chain is registered with the Registro Civil, and 2) Either the parent or grandparent must be born or naturalized in Chile. This means that you cannot get citizenship by descent in Chile if your only ancestor born in Chile is your great-grandparent or further.

Can my children be included?

It depends. If you obtained citizenship by descent through a parent born in Chile, yes. Once your own birth is registered and your Chilean nationality is recognized, your children become children of a Chilean and can be registered in turn. However, if you obtained citizenship by descent through a grandparent born in Chile, your children cannot obtain citizenship by descent.

The process

Can I do everything from abroad?

Yes. There is no residency requirement to claim citizenship by descent. Births abroad of children of Chileans are registered through the Chilean consulate serving your area, which transmits the inscription to the Registro Civil in Chile. We retrieve the Chilean records remotely and prepare your file, so your involvement is limited to providing your own documents and attending the consulate when required.

Do I need to speak Spanish?

No. Unlike naturalization, citizenship by descent has no language or integration test. Any document not already in Spanish is officially translated, and we handle all the communication with the consulate and the Registro Civil in Spanish on your behalf.

Does Chile allow dual citizenship?

Yes. Chile has allowed dual nationality. Whether or not you can keep your current citizenship depends on whether your country of origin also allows dual citizenship.

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