EU, EEA or Swiss Self-Employed Registration

European Economic Area (EEA) nationals have the right to reside in Malta when exercising their treaty rights as workers, self-employed persons, economically self-sufficient persons, family members, exempt or students.

European Economic Area (EEA) nationals have the right to reside in Malta when exercising their treaty rights as workers, self-employed persons, economically self-sufficient persons, family members, exempt or students.

EU nationals who are exercising their right of free movement in Malta, and are either employed, self-employed, economically self-sufficient, or studying, may have their immediate family members join and accompany them in Malta.

The family members who may join the EU national include the immediate family members, which would include a spouse, a durable partner with whom the EU national has been in a relationship for at least two (2) years, and any children under the age of twenty-one (21).

Children over the age of twenty-one (21), parents and parents-in-law of the EU national, may also be granted facilitation to join the EU national in Malta provided it can be proven to the satisfaction of Identità that such family member is fully dependent on the EU national due to serious health reasons.

EU nationals who have been legally residing in Malta for more than five (5) years, may be entitled to permanent residence when they have had actual and real residence in Malta for at least five (5) consecutive years.

A residence document reflecting the applicant’s permanent right of residence will be issued for ten (10) years.

For EU nationals to be considered as having acquired the right of permanent residence, it is imperative that the EU nationals were exercising their freedom of movement rights during such (5) five-year period.

Swiss Agreement , Swiss nationals and their family members cannot apply under the Permanent Basis.

Applicant must submit sufficient evidence on their own name, that s/he has resided in Malta for at least six (6) months in a twelve (12) month period throughout the five (5) years.

Once permanent residence is acquired, the Union citizen and his family members shall only lose such status of permanent residence through absence from Malta for a period exceeding two consecutive years.