Whats New For The Malta Golden Visa?

Malta provides access to the European lifestyle, including visa-free travel within the Schengen Zone, top-notch healthcare, education, and the opportunity to live, work, or retire in a stable and culturally vibrant environment.

In 2025, the following updates took effect:

• Proof of assets - Beginning in 2025, applicants for the MPRP program must demonstrate proof of assets to ensure they can financially sustain themselves during and after the residency application process. Applicants' assets must total at least €500,000, with a minimum of €150,000 in financial assets, such as cash balances, stocks and bond portfolios, or similar. Alternatively, applicants can present €650,000 in total assets, with at least €75,000 in financial assets.

• Administration Fees / Contribution - In 2025, the following government fees and real estate requirements will apply.

  1) The main applicant fee will increase to €50,000.

  2) All dependants - including spouses, children, parents, and grandparents - will incur fees of €10,000 each (€5,000 administrative + €5,000 financial contribution).

  3) Qualifying Property Costs: The minimum purchase value will rise to €375,000, and the minimum annual rent will increase to €14,000.

  4) Contribution Fees: Applicants opting to rent will contribute €60,000, while those purchasing property will contribute €30,000 to Malta’s social and economic development, such as infrastructure, healthcare, education, and other public services.

  
  

Starting in 2025, the program allows adult children aged 18-28 to be included as dependants if they are unmarried and financially dependent on the main applicant.

Many beneficiaries of Malta’s Golden Visa Program do not reside in the country. However, they make an impact, according to recent research from the Maltese non-governmental organisation, the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation.

The program offering a pathway to residency in Malta through financial investment has attracted numerous foreign nationals.

The recent report, based on data from thousands of golden visa requests from 2016 to 2021, reveals that nearly nine out of every ten golden visa buyers, or 88 percent of the total, are nationals from China.

The survey indicates that while a total of 5,200 nationals from China acquired residency in Malta through the Golden Visa Program between 2016 and 2021, the latest population data showed that there were only 2,700 Chinese people living in the country.