Malta requires applicants for citizenship to make a one-time investment of at least €600,000, purchase or lease real estate, donate €10,000 to charity and reside in the country for three years.

Malta will be scrapping the passport scheme following a European court ruling, Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri said. Following the ECJ ruling in April that found Malta's golden passport ...

In its statement, Malta said passports granted under the scheme “remain valid.” Under the program, applicants gained citizenship by making a large payment of 600,000 euros ($683,000) and establishing ...

The EU commission took Malta to court in 2022 over the scheme, which grants foreigners a Maltese passport and thereby the right to live and work in any EU country in return for paying at least € ...

Malta, its Dingli coast pictured here on Sept. 24, 2022, stopped allowing Russians and Belarusian nationals to buy citizenship to the EU after being pressured by the EU.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Court of Justice on Tuesday ordered Malta to close its “golden passport” program, ruling that citizenship in EU countries cannot be sold.

VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Bowing to stiff EU criticism, Malta has agreed to require one year of residency for foreigners buying Maltese passports. The tiny Mediterranean island nation is a member ...

The European Commission said on Thursday it would file a legal challenge against Malta for its so-called golden passport programme that allows wealthy foreigners to buy citizenship in exchange for ...

Malta has scrapped its golden passport scheme. After years of scrutiny and debate on whether the economic benefits were worth the damage caused to Malta's reputation, given that selling Maltese ...

The Silicon Valley investor and Republican donor has American, German, and New Zealand passports. The EU is trying to ban Malta's "golden passport" scheme, which grants recipients access to the EU.

Galizia, son of Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese journalist focused on corruption who was killed by a bomb in 2017, called for the government of Malta to scrap the “golden passport” program ...