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Malta is an island nation in the central Mediterranean, south of Sicily, an EU member. Its capital is Valletta, its official languages are Maltese and English, and its currency is the euro.
9 Nov 2026
The United States and Canada leave parents to other routes; Greece sets no age or dependency test, Portugal asks for dependence, Malta for principal dependence and Dominica for an age above 65 and support.
Read →7 Nov 2026
UK law covers only advice given in the UK and Australia's Home Affairs reads its law as not reaching unregistered offshore advice; Malta and Dominica list licensed agents and EB-5 promoters must register.
Read →5 Nov 2026
Treaties with Portugal, Spain, Malta, Italy, Hungary and Latvia let Vietnam credit tax paid on a home there; Vietnam's decree ties the credit to a signed treaty.
Read →4 Nov 2026
Owners resident in Vietnam pay Spain 24% on a deemed 1.1% or 2% of cadastral value; Portugal and Greece tax the home itself, and Cyprus scrapped its national tax in 2017.
Read →3 Nov 2026
Greece charges 1% to 10% above EUR 150,000, Malta 5% and Spain from 7.65% under state rules that regional rules can replace; Vietnam's parent-to-child real estate exemption has no territorial limit in its text.
Read →23 Oct 2026
Among the 61 jurisdictions counted, the last dated closure was Spain's, on 3 April 2025. The past 12 months hold no closure, 5 restrictions, 3 to 5 openings or easings and 5 instruments that do both.
Read →18 Oct 2026
Across seven countries, Cyprus requires a permit for a buyer living in Vietnam, Malta does outside designated areas, Switzerland allows only a holiday home and Spain needs military consent in defence zones.
Read →9 Oct 2026
Latvia asks €50,000 in a company plus €10,000 to the state, if the firm pays €40,000 a year in tax. Four more start at €250,000 for specific uses; Malta adds €99,000 in charges, Cyprus €50,000 a year in income.
Read →1 Oct 2026
Latvia starts its five-year citizenship clock only at permanent residence, and the ordinary routes of Indonesia, Latvia and, in its 2017 text, the UAE make Vietnamese applicants renounce their nationality.
Read →25 Sep 2026
The agency that administers Maltese citizenship says Malta Citizenship by Merit is not a programme, and that it does not permit marketing or promotion of the legislation.
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