Malta Global Residence Programme

Residency Rights

• Permanent Residence: the right to reside indefinitely in Malta;
• EU Residence Card gives Visa-free travel within Schengen Area;

The Global Residence Programme Rules, 2013 grants permanent residency rights to economically self-sufficient applicants keeping a permanent address in Malta in the form of residential property purchased or rented in any of the islands of Malta or Gozo.

• Open to non-EU nationals
• Family applications allows, including:
  • spouse, life partner;
  • parents & grandparents of main applicant and spouse;
  • brothers/sisters;
  • dependent children up to 25 yrs;
  • domestic staff.
• Economically self-sufficient;
• An application fee of €6.000
• Applicants have to purchase or rent a property;
• Applicants should have valid travel document;
• Applicants should have all-covering EU health insurance;
• Annual cost: €15,000 tax
  • this covers the whole family for the first €100,000 foreign income remitted to Malta without further tax.)