# Chile: ordinary naturalisation

SERMIG's ordinary adult route combines five years of qualifying residence with a currently valid permanent-residence permit, identity and background documents, and economic and tax evidence. Grant is an official decision.

Scope: Ordinary adult carta de Nacionalización without a Chilean-family link, excluding qualified two-year family routes, minors, nationality by option and grants by grace.

Jurisdiction: Chile. Sources reviewed 2026-09-17; review due 2026-12-16.

General information, not legal advice or a finding of eligibility. Requirements depend on the route, applicant and filing date. Verify the official instructions before applying.

## Five-year guidance plus current permanent status

SERMIG lists age 18 or older, valid Residencia Definitiva and five or more years residing in Chile. Its clock starts with the electronic stamp for the temporary residence that led to the current permanent status—not five years holding permanent residence.

Evidence: conditional. [Chile, Servicio Nacional de Migraciones: Nacionalidad, updated 22 December 2025](https://serviciomigraciones.cl/nacionalidad/). Source location: ¿En qué casos puedo obtener la nacionalidad chilena? — Titular de Residencia Definitiva and stamp footnote.

## Identity and background documentation

Applicants supply passport identity details or an accepted identity/nationality alternative and a legalised or apostilled origin-country criminal-record certificate, translated where needed. A PDI travel certificate substitutes only for the specified applicants who entered as minors and cannot obtain the origin-country record.

Evidence: conditional. [Chile, Servicio Nacional de Migraciones: Nacionalidad, updated 22 December 2025](https://serviciomigraciones.cl/nacionalidad/). Source location: Requisitos — Para personas sin vínculo con chileno — Documentación general, items 1–3.

## Activity and tax compliance evidence

Current activity in Chile must be documented. Individuals provide SII tax-compliance documentation and a Treasury debt certificate; company partners must also provide the specified documents for each participating company. Supplying evidence does not determine approval.

Evidence: conditional. [Chile, Servicio Nacional de Migraciones: Nacionalidad, updated 22 December 2025](https://serviciomigraciones.cl/nacionalidad/). Source location: Para personas sin vínculo con chileno — Documentación por actividad laboral.

## Apply inside Chile; grant by decree

Applications are submitted through SERMIG's digital portal using ClaveÚnica, and the service is available only from Chile. Nationality is conferred through a ministerial decree by order of the President, not by residence or online submission alone.

Evidence: documented. [Chile, Servicio Nacional de Migraciones: Nacionalidad, updated 22 December 2025](https://serviciomigraciones.cl/nacionalidad/). Source location: ¿Qué es la carta de Nacionalización?; ¿Dónde puedo solicitar la carta de Nacionalización?.

## Loss of Chilean nationality is a separate issue

Voluntary renunciation of Chilean nationality requires prior acquisition of a foreign nationality. Cancellation of a naturalisation certificate is a separate loss ground. These loss rules do not, by themselves, establish whether an applicant must renounce an existing nationality when becoming Chilean; that inbound issue remains unresolved here.

Evidence: conditional. [Consulate General of Chile in Amsterdam: Renuncia a la nacionalidad chilena](https://www.chile.gob.cl/amsterdam/renuncia-a-la-nacionalidad-chilena). Source location: Renuncia a la nacionalidad chilena — constitutional loss grounds under Article 11.

## Language and civic standard not established

The reviewed current service does not establish a standardised Spanish-language or civic test, a numeric language level, or test exemptions. This omission is not treated as evidence that no interview, assessment or language requirement can apply.

Evidence: not established. [Chile, Servicio Nacional de Migraciones: Nacionalidad, updated 22 December 2025](https://serviciomigraciones.cl/nacionalidad/). Source location: Current ordinary-route requirements and application instructions.

## Scope and limitations

- The current statutory portal returned only an application shell. An Interior Ministry archived 2016-version decree says more than five years, whereas current SERMIG guidance says five or more; the exact anniversary boundary and permissible absences are not independently resolved.
- Existing-nationality renunciation remains unresolved: an archived decree prints a renunciation clause while an official administrative directory describes naturalisation without renouncing origin nationality. Neither is promoted into a definitive current inbound rule.
- The qualified family route has two-year continuous-residence and relationship requirements; it is not the ordinary five-year route. Current processing times, comprehensive disqualifications and individual eligibility are outside this candidate.

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