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A Licence From the Minister Is an Implied Condition of Every Leave, and Silence on a Single Permit Application Becomes an Appeal by Itself

Answer

The general rule applies to you

No exception is recorded for citizens of Honduras on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.

172 exceptions recorded across 63 countries · none match Honduras to Malta · Residency through work

Malta's prohibition on working is not a separate offence you can look up: it is written into whatever permission you already hold. Article 11 of the Immigration Act makes it an implied condition of any leave to land and remain, and of any residence permit, that the holder shall not exercise any profession or occupation, hold any appointment, be employed by any other person or engage in business without a licence from the Minister - and the Minister may grant that licence for such period and under such conditions as he thinks fit, and cancel or vary it at any time. The procedure for getting one is the single permit: S.L. 217.17 transposes the Union's single-permit directive so that residence and work are applied for once and granted on one document. Two features of that procedure are worth knowing. The Director must decide within four months of the application being lodged, extendable where the examination is complex; and if he does not, regulation 14 does not treat the silence as a refusal or leave it unanswered - the application "shall automatically be passed on for appeal to the Board". Against that sits regulation 13, which lets the Director declare an application inadmissible on the grounds of volumes of admission and not process it at all. For the highly qualified there is the EU Blue Card under S.L. 217.27: a contract or binding job offer of at least six months, a salary of at least one and a half times the average gross annual salary in Malta, and a card valid for at least twenty-four months. The Minister responsible for employment may cut that multiplier to 1.2 for occupations in the top two ISCO groups where a particular need is determined, and must tell the European Commission each year which professions those are.

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At a glance

What makes working unlawful
An implied condition of the leave or residence permit you already hold

Article 11(1) and (2) of the Immigration Act. The condition attaches to leave under article 6(1)(a), leave under article 6(1)(b) and residence permits under article 7(1) alike.

Who issues the licence
The Minister, for such period and under such conditions as he thinks fit

Article 11(3) of the Immigration Act, which also lets him cancel or vary the conditions at any time.

Deadline for a decision on a single permit
4 months from the date the application was lodged

Regulation 12 of S.L. 217.17; the limit may be extended in exceptional circumstances linked to the complexity of the examination, and is suspended while incomplete documents are outstanding under regulation 16.

What happens if the Director misses the deadline
The application passes automatically to the Immigration Appeals Board

Regulation 14 of S.L. 217.17. Silence is neither a refusal nor nothing: it is an appeal.

Quota
An application may be ruled inadmissible on the grounds of volumes of admission

Regulation 13 of S.L. 217.17, which then says the Director need not process the application. The regulations publish no number.

EU Blue Card salary threshold
At least 1.5 times the average gross annual salary in Malta

Regulation 4(1)(a) of S.L. 217.27. "Gross annual salary" is defined in regulation 2 as the average annual gross salary published by the National Statistics Office in the Labour Force Survey, so the figure moves with that survey and no euro amount appears in the regulations.

Reduced EU Blue Card threshold
At least 1.2 times the average gross annual salary, for ISCO major groups 1 and 2

Regulation 4(1)(a) of S.L. 217.27, where the Minister responsible for employment determines a particular need; the list of professions goes to the European Commission each year.

Minimum contract for an EU Blue Card
6 months

Regulation 4(1)(a) of S.L. 217.27 - a valid work contract or a binding job offer for highly qualified employment.

EU Blue Card validity
At least 24 months

Regulation 6(2) of S.L. 217.27. A shorter contract gives the contract plus three months but still not less than twenty-four, unless the travel document expires sooner.

Renewal window for an EU Blue Card
Up to 90 days before expiry, and you may stay while the decision is pending

Regulation 12(4) and (5) of S.L. 217.27.

Fee for a single permit
€600 for a permit of up to one year; €150 for each year of renewal

Items 1(a) and 1(b) of regulation 2 of L.N. 164 of 2025, in force 1 August 2025. A health care professional or carer pays €150 and €50 instead.

Fee for an EU Blue Card
€600, and €150 for each year of renewal

Items 1(k) and 1(l) of regulation 2 of L.N. 164 of 2025.

Fee for the employment licence itself
€250 on application for a third-country national; €250 again on each annual renewal

Items 4(c) and 5(b) of regulation 2 of L.N. 164 of 2025. The licence fee is separate from the residence permit fee and is charged on application rather than on issue.

Fee to change employer or designation on a single permit
€600 to change employer, €300 to change designation

Items 1(e) and 1(f) of regulation 2 of L.N. 164 of 2025. Changing employer costs the same as a first application.

Requirements

  • A job in Malta, and an employer who applies with you
  • A licence from the Minister - without one, working breaches an implied condition of the permission you hold
  • For the EU Blue Card: higher education qualifications or equivalent professional experience, a contract or binding job offer of at least six months, and a salary at or above the published threshold
  • A single application for residence and work, decided by the Director

What applies to you

Nothing changes for a citizen of Honduras

We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.

What the law says

Text layer - verbatim verifiedImmigration Act · Article 11(1)
«condition of any leave granted to Amended by: any person under article 6(1)(a) or, saving the provisions of Part VIII.1982.2; XIII. 1983.5; III, of a residence permit issued to any person under article 7(1) XXXIII. 1988.2; that such person shall not in Malta exercise any profession or IX. 2000.7; occupation or hold any appointment or be employed by any other XXIII. 2002.12. person or engage in business without a licence from the Minister.»

The amendment references and the words "Implied conditions." are the margin notes of the consolidated chapter, which the extraction interleaves with the text; they are part of the stored reading and are not edited out.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedImmigration Act · Article 11(2) and (3)
«(2) It shall be an implied condition of any leave granted to any person under article 6(1)(b) or extended under paragraph (c), that IMMIGRATION [CAP. 217. 11 such person shall not in Malta exercise any profession or occupation or hold any appointment or be employed by any other person without a licence from the Minister. (3) The Minister may grant a licence for any of the purposes mentioned in sub-article (1) or (2) for such period and under such conditions as he shall think fit and may at any time cancel or vary the conditions of any such licence.»

"IMMIGRATION [CAP. 217. 11" inside the quotation is the running head of page 11, which the extraction places in the middle of the sentence.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedSingle Application Procedure for a Single Permit as regards Residence and Work and a Common Set of Rights for those Third-Country Workers legally residing in Malta Regulations · Regulation 1(2)
«These regulations transpose the provisions of Council Directive 2011/98/EC of the 13th December 2011 regarding a single application procedure for a single permit for third-country nationals to reside and work in the territory of a Member State and on a common set of rights for those third-country workers legally residing in a Member State.»

What the single permit is, in the regulations' own words.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedSingle Application Procedure for a Single Permit Regulations · Regulation 12
«adopt a decision on the complete application, as soon as possible, and in any event within four months of the date on which the application was lodged: Provided that this time limit may be extended in exceptional circumstances linked to the complexity of the examination of the application.»
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Standing: Maintains the text in force

Cannot be cited for: It is not the authentic text. Under article 10(2) of the Statute Law Revision Act, 2021 the authentic text is the revised edition itself, which is the sole and only proper text in all Courts of Justice; the internet publication carries only the rebuttable presumption in article 12(4), so the site is official but defeasible. Two consequences follow for citation. First, the presumption runs only up to the date indicated on the site, and that date appears on the HTML page rather than inside the PDF, so a PDF taken on its own states no cut-off and none should be invented for it. Second, where the Maltese and English texts conflict the Maltese prevails - article 74 of the Constitution for any law, article 10(3) of the 2021 Act for a revised edition - so an English quotation here is the subordinate text and should not be relied on against a Maltese one. It cannot be cited for administrative practice at all: who may apply, what documents are wanted and what a programme currently charges in processing terms are matters for Identita, the Residency Malta Agency and the Commissioner for Revenue, and the instruments repeatedly delegate them to guidelines those bodies may issue.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedSingle Application Procedure for a Single Permit Regulations · Regulation 13
«ider an application as inadmissible, Inadmissibility of on the grounds of volumes of admission of third country nationals application. coming to Malta for the purposes of employment and, on that basis, need not process the application.»

The quotation begins mid-word because the extraction breaks "consider" across the margin note "Inadmissibility of application.", which it then interleaves. The sentence opens "The Director shall consider an application as inadmissible".

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Standing: Maintains the text in force

Cannot be cited for: It is not the authentic text. Under article 10(2) of the Statute Law Revision Act, 2021 the authentic text is the revised edition itself, which is the sole and only proper text in all Courts of Justice; the internet publication carries only the rebuttable presumption in article 12(4), so the site is official but defeasible. Two consequences follow for citation. First, the presumption runs only up to the date indicated on the site, and that date appears on the HTML page rather than inside the PDF, so a PDF taken on its own states no cut-off and none should be invented for it. Second, where the Maltese and English texts conflict the Maltese prevails - article 74 of the Constitution for any law, article 10(3) of the 2021 Act for a revised edition - so an English quotation here is the subordinate text and should not be relied on against a Maltese one. It cannot be cited for administrative practice at all: who may apply, what documents are wanted and what a programme currently charges in processing terms are matters for Identita, the Residency Malta Agency and the Commissioner for Revenue, and the instruments repeatedly delegate them to guidelines those bodies may issue.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedSingle Application Procedure for a Single Permit Regulations · Regulation 14
«automatically be passed on for appeal to the Board.»

The full regulation reads "In the event that the Director fails to give a decision within the period specified in regulation 12, the application shall automatically be passed on for appeal to the Board." Only the closing words are quoted because the stored extraction breaks the middle of that sentence into fragments - "regulatio n 12 , t he app licatio n" - where the PDF's letter spacing defeated it. The Board is the Immigration Appeals Board.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedConditions of the Entry and Residence of Third-Country Nationals for the Purpose of Highly Qualified Employment Regulations · Regulation 4(1)(a)
«Employment and Industrial Relations Act, a binding job offer for highly qualified employment for a period of at least six (6) months in Malta: Provided that the monthly or annual salary specified in a valid work contract shall not be less than a relevant salary threshold defined and published for that purpose, which shall be at least one point five (1.5) times the average gross annual salary in Malta: Provided further that where the Minister responsible for employment, from time to time, determines a particular need of third-country national workers and who belong to the major groups 1 and 2 of ISCO, the salary threshold may be at least one point two (1.2) times the average gross annual salary in Malta»

The regulation opens "An applicant for an EU Blue Card shall: (a) present a valid work contract or, as provided in the Employment and Industrial Relations Act, ..."; the quotation starts after that because the stored extraction carries a private-use character where the margin reference "Cap. 452." is anchored. The threshold is a multiplier rather than an amount, so the figure moves whenever the Labour Force Survey does.

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Cannot be cited for: It is not the authentic text. Under article 10(2) of the Statute Law Revision Act, 2021 the authentic text is the revised edition itself, which is the sole and only proper text in all Courts of Justice; the internet publication carries only the rebuttable presumption in article 12(4), so the site is official but defeasible. Two consequences follow for citation. First, the presumption runs only up to the date indicated on the site, and that date appears on the HTML page rather than inside the PDF, so a PDF taken on its own states no cut-off and none should be invented for it. Second, where the Maltese and English texts conflict the Maltese prevails - article 74 of the Constitution for any law, article 10(3) of the 2021 Act for a revised edition - so an English quotation here is the subordinate text and should not be relied on against a Maltese one. It cannot be cited for administrative practice at all: who may apply, what documents are wanted and what a programme currently charges in processing terms are matters for Identita, the Residency Malta Agency and the Commissioner for Revenue, and the instruments repeatedly delegate them to guidelines those bodies may issue.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedConditions of the Entry and Residence of Third-Country Nationals for the Purpose of Highly Qualified Employment Regulations · Regulation 2, definition of "gross annual salary"
«"gross annual salary" means the average annual gross salary published by the National Statistics Office in the Labour Force Survey;»

What the multiplier is applied to. No euro amount appears anywhere in the regulations.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedConditions of the Entry and Residence of Third-Country Nationals for the Purpose of Highly Qualified Employment Regulations · Regulation 6(2)
«The competent authority shall set a standard period of validity for the EU Blue Card, which shall not be less than twenty-four (24) months. If the EU Blue Card holder’s work contract covers a shorter period, the EU Blue Card shall be valid for at least the duration of the work contract plus three (3) months, but for not less than the standard period of twenty-four (24) months.»
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Cannot be cited for: It is not the authentic text. Under article 10(2) of the Statute Law Revision Act, 2021 the authentic text is the revised edition itself, which is the sole and only proper text in all Courts of Justice; the internet publication carries only the rebuttable presumption in article 12(4), so the site is official but defeasible. Two consequences follow for citation. First, the presumption runs only up to the date indicated on the site, and that date appears on the HTML page rather than inside the PDF, so a PDF taken on its own states no cut-off and none should be invented for it. Second, where the Maltese and English texts conflict the Maltese prevails - article 74 of the Constitution for any law, article 10(3) of the 2021 Act for a revised edition - so an English quotation here is the subordinate text and should not be relied on against a Maltese one. It cannot be cited for administrative practice at all: who may apply, what documents are wanted and what a programme currently charges in processing terms are matters for Identita, the Residency Malta Agency and the Commissioner for Revenue, and the instruments repeatedly delegate them to guidelines those bodies may issue.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedConditions of the Entry and Residence of Third-Country Nationals for the Purpose of Highly Qualified Employment Regulations · Regulation 12(4) and (5)
«An applicant shall be allowed to submit an application for the renewal of his EU Blue Card within a period of time not exceeding ninety (90) days prior to the date of expiration of the EU Blue Card. (5) Where the validity of the EU Blue Card expires during the renewal procedure, the third-country national shall be allowed to stay in Malta as if he was an EU Blue Card holder until the competent authority has taken a decision on the application for renewal.»
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Cannot be cited for: It is not the authentic text. Under article 10(2) of the Statute Law Revision Act, 2021 the authentic text is the revised edition itself, which is the sole and only proper text in all Courts of Justice; the internet publication carries only the rebuttable presumption in article 12(4), so the site is official but defeasible. Two consequences follow for citation. First, the presumption runs only up to the date indicated on the site, and that date appears on the HTML page rather than inside the PDF, so a PDF taken on its own states no cut-off and none should be invented for it. Second, where the Maltese and English texts conflict the Maltese prevails - article 74 of the Constitution for any law, article 10(3) of the 2021 Act for a revised edition - so an English quotation here is the subordinate text and should not be relied on against a Maltese one. It cannot be cited for administrative practice at all: who may apply, what documents are wanted and what a programme currently charges in processing terms are matters for Identita, the Residency Malta Agency and the Commissioner for Revenue, and the instruments repeatedly delegate them to guidelines those bodies may issue.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedFees payable for Residence Permits and Employment Licences Regulations, 2025 · Regulation 2, item 1(a)
«(a) Application for a single permit as regards residence and work valid for a period of up to one €600 (1) year»

The amounts sit in a second column of the printed table, which the extraction folds into the sentence.

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Cannot be cited for: It is not the authentic text. Under article 10(2) of the Statute Law Revision Act, 2021 the authentic text is the revised edition itself, which is the sole and only proper text in all Courts of Justice; the internet publication carries only the rebuttable presumption in article 12(4), so the site is official but defeasible. Two consequences follow for citation. First, the presumption runs only up to the date indicated on the site, and that date appears on the HTML page rather than inside the PDF, so a PDF taken on its own states no cut-off and none should be invented for it. Second, where the Maltese and English texts conflict the Maltese prevails - article 74 of the Constitution for any law, article 10(3) of the 2021 Act for a revised edition - so an English quotation here is the subordinate text and should not be relied on against a Maltese one. It cannot be cited for administrative practice at all: who may apply, what documents are wanted and what a programme currently charges in processing terms are matters for Identita, the Residency Malta Agency and the Commissioner for Revenue, and the instruments repeatedly delegate them to guidelines those bodies may issue.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedFees payable for Residence Permits and Employment Licences Regulations, 2025 · Regulation 2, item 1(e) and 1(f)
«(e) Application for a single permit as regards residence and work - change of employer €600 VERŻJONI ELETTRONIKA B 1655 B 1655 (f) Application for a single permit as regards residence and work - change of designation €300»

"VERŻJONI ELETTRONIKA B 1655" is the page furniture of the Government Gazette, caught between the two items.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedFees payable for Residence Permits and Employment Licences Regulations, 2025 · Regulation 2, item 1(k)
«(k) Application for a residence permit for the purpose of highly qualified employment (EU Blue €600 Card)»
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Cannot be cited for: It is not the authentic text. Under article 10(2) of the Statute Law Revision Act, 2021 the authentic text is the revised edition itself, which is the sole and only proper text in all Courts of Justice; the internet publication carries only the rebuttable presumption in article 12(4), so the site is official but defeasible. Two consequences follow for citation. First, the presumption runs only up to the date indicated on the site, and that date appears on the HTML page rather than inside the PDF, so a PDF taken on its own states no cut-off and none should be invented for it. Second, where the Maltese and English texts conflict the Maltese prevails - article 74 of the Constitution for any law, article 10(3) of the 2021 Act for a revised edition - so an English quotation here is the subordinate text and should not be relied on against a Maltese one. It cannot be cited for administrative practice at all: who may apply, what documents are wanted and what a programme currently charges in processing terms are matters for Identita, the Residency Malta Agency and the Commissioner for Revenue, and the instruments repeatedly delegate them to guidelines those bodies may issue.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedFees payable for Residence Permits and Employment Licences Regulations, 2025 · Regulation 2, item 4
«4. Applications for an employment licence in terms of article 11(3) of the Immigration Act (Cap. 217), in respect of:»

The heading that ties the licence fee to the Immigration Act power.

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Cannot be cited for: It is not the authentic text. Under article 10(2) of the Statute Law Revision Act, 2021 the authentic text is the revised edition itself, which is the sole and only proper text in all Courts of Justice; the internet publication carries only the rebuttable presumption in article 12(4), so the site is official but defeasible. Two consequences follow for citation. First, the presumption runs only up to the date indicated on the site, and that date appears on the HTML page rather than inside the PDF, so a PDF taken on its own states no cut-off and none should be invented for it. Second, where the Maltese and English texts conflict the Maltese prevails - article 74 of the Constitution for any law, article 10(3) of the 2021 Act for a revised edition - so an English quotation here is the subordinate text and should not be relied on against a Maltese one. It cannot be cited for administrative practice at all: who may apply, what documents are wanted and what a programme currently charges in processing terms are matters for Identita, the Residency Malta Agency and the Commissioner for Revenue, and the instruments repeatedly delegate them to guidelines those bodies may issue.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedFees payable for Residence Permits and Employment Licences Regulations, 2025 · Regulation 2, item 4(c)
«(c) All other third country nationals Payable on application: €250»

Charged on application, so it is not returned if the licence is refused. Items 4(a), 4(b) and 4(e) charge €60 for family members of long-term residents, for protection beneficiaries and for EU nationals.

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Cannot be cited for: It is not the authentic text. Under article 10(2) of the Statute Law Revision Act, 2021 the authentic text is the revised edition itself, which is the sole and only proper text in all Courts of Justice; the internet publication carries only the rebuttable presumption in article 12(4), so the site is official but defeasible. Two consequences follow for citation. First, the presumption runs only up to the date indicated on the site, and that date appears on the HTML page rather than inside the PDF, so a PDF taken on its own states no cut-off and none should be invented for it. Second, where the Maltese and English texts conflict the Maltese prevails - article 74 of the Constitution for any law, article 10(3) of the 2021 Act for a revised edition - so an English quotation here is the subordinate text and should not be relied on against a Maltese one. It cannot be cited for administrative practice at all: who may apply, what documents are wanted and what a programme currently charges in processing terms are matters for Identita, the Residency Malta Agency and the Commissioner for Revenue, and the instruments repeatedly delegate them to guidelines those bodies may issue.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedFees payable for Residence Permits and Employment Licences Regulations, 2025 · Regulation 1(2)
«These regulations shall come into force on 1st August 2025.»

The date these amounts began to apply.

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Cannot be cited for: It is not the authentic text. Under article 10(2) of the Statute Law Revision Act, 2021 the authentic text is the revised edition itself, which is the sole and only proper text in all Courts of Justice; the internet publication carries only the rebuttable presumption in article 12(4), so the site is official but defeasible. Two consequences follow for citation. First, the presumption runs only up to the date indicated on the site, and that date appears on the HTML page rather than inside the PDF, so a PDF taken on its own states no cut-off and none should be invented for it. Second, where the Maltese and English texts conflict the Maltese prevails - article 74 of the Constitution for any law, article 10(3) of the 2021 Act for a revised edition - so an English quotation here is the subordinate text and should not be relied on against a Maltese one. It cannot be cited for administrative practice at all: who may apply, what documents are wanted and what a programme currently charges in processing terms are matters for Identita, the Residency Malta Agency and the Commissioner for Revenue, and the instruments repeatedly delegate them to guidelines those bodies may issue.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedFees payable for Residence Permits and Employment Licences Regulations, 2025 · Regulation 3
«3. The Fees payable for Residence Permits and Employment saving. S.L. 217.01. Licences Regulations are hereby repealed without prejudice to anything done or omitted to be done thereunder.»

The 2025 schedule replaced S.L. 217.01 outright. "Repeal and saving. S.L. 217.01." is the margin note, interleaved by the extraction.

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Cannot be cited for: It is not the authentic text. Under article 10(2) of the Statute Law Revision Act, 2021 the authentic text is the revised edition itself, which is the sole and only proper text in all Courts of Justice; the internet publication carries only the rebuttable presumption in article 12(4), so the site is official but defeasible. Two consequences follow for citation. First, the presumption runs only up to the date indicated on the site, and that date appears on the HTML page rather than inside the PDF, so a PDF taken on its own states no cut-off and none should be invented for it. Second, where the Maltese and English texts conflict the Maltese prevails - article 74 of the Constitution for any law, article 10(3) of the 2021 Act for a revised edition - so an English quotation here is the subordinate text and should not be relied on against a Maltese one. It cannot be cited for administrative practice at all: who may apply, what documents are wanted and what a programme currently charges in processing terms are matters for Identita, the Residency Malta Agency and the Commissioner for Revenue, and the instruments repeatedly delegate them to guidelines those bodies may issue.

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Practical notes

The salary threshold for the EU Blue Card cannot be stated here as a euro figure, because the regulations do not state one: they state a multiple of a number the National Statistics Office publishes in the Labour Force Survey. Anyone quoting a fixed amount is quoting a threshold published somewhere else, and it will be out of date as soon as the survey moves.

Regulation 14 is the provision most worth remembering if an application goes quiet. A missed four-month deadline does not leave the applicant with nothing to appeal against - the regulations send the application to the Immigration Appeals Board on their own.

Regulation 13 is the other side of that. The Director may decline to process an application at all on the grounds of volumes of admission, and no instrument read for this record publishes what those volumes are.

Every fee here is the one in force from 1 August 2025 under L.N. 164 of 2025, which repealed the old fees regulations, S.L. 217.01, outright. A figure from an older page is a figure from a revoked instrument.

This record rests on the Immigration Act, the single permit regulations and the highly qualified employment regulations. Malta also runs named administrative fast-track schemes for employers; none of them was read for this record and none is cited here.

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    Immigration Act, Chapter 217 of the Laws of Malta

    Laws of Malta

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    The Government of Malta's statute book, published on the internet by the Minister responsible for the Law Commission under article 12 of the Statute Law Revision Act, 2021 (Act XL of 2021). It carries the Constitution, every Chapter of the revised edition with amendments incorporated, every piece of subsidiary legislation under them, and Acts and Legal Notices as enacted. Addresses follow a stable ELI shape: /eli/cap/<n>/<lang>/pdf for a Chapter, /eli/sl/<chapter>.<n>/<lang>/pdf for subsidiary legislation, /eli/act/<year>/<n>/<lang>/pdf and /eli/ln/<year>/<n>/<lang>/pdf for instruments as made, and /eli/const/<lang>/pdf for the Constitution. Both official languages are served at the same address with eng or mlt substituted. Article 12(4) of the 2021 Act gives the text on this site a statutory presumption: unless proof is brought to the contrary it is deemed to be a true representation of the law, incorporating all amendments up to the date indicated on the site.

    Standing: Maintains the text in force

    Cannot be cited for: It is not the authentic text. Under article 10(2) of the Statute Law Revision Act, 2021 the authentic text is the revised edition itself, which is the sole and only proper text in all Courts of Justice; the internet publication carries only the rebuttable presumption in article 12(4), so the site is official but defeasible. Two consequences follow for citation. First, the presumption runs only up to the date indicated on the site, and that date appears on the HTML page rather than inside the PDF, so a PDF taken on its own states no cut-off and none should be invented for it. Second, where the Maltese and English texts conflict the Maltese prevails - article 74 of the Constitution for any law, article 10(3) of the 2021 Act for a revised edition - so an English quotation here is the subordinate text and should not be relied on against a Maltese one. It cannot be cited for administrative practice at all: who may apply, what documents are wanted and what a programme currently charges in processing terms are matters for Identita, the Residency Malta Agency and the Commissioner for Revenue, and the instruments repeatedly delegate them to guidelines those bodies may issue.

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  • consolidates
    Single Application Procedure for a Single Permit as regards Residence and Work Regulations, S.L. 217.17

    Laws of Malta

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    Standing: Maintains the text in force

    Cannot be cited for: It is not the authentic text. Under article 10(2) of the Statute Law Revision Act, 2021 the authentic text is the revised edition itself, which is the sole and only proper text in all Courts of Justice; the internet publication carries only the rebuttable presumption in article 12(4), so the site is official but defeasible. Two consequences follow for citation. First, the presumption runs only up to the date indicated on the site, and that date appears on the HTML page rather than inside the PDF, so a PDF taken on its own states no cut-off and none should be invented for it. Second, where the Maltese and English texts conflict the Maltese prevails - article 74 of the Constitution for any law, article 10(3) of the 2021 Act for a revised edition - so an English quotation here is the subordinate text and should not be relied on against a Maltese one. It cannot be cited for administrative practice at all: who may apply, what documents are wanted and what a programme currently charges in processing terms are matters for Identita, the Residency Malta Agency and the Commissioner for Revenue, and the instruments repeatedly delegate them to guidelines those bodies may issue.

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  • consolidates
    Conditions of the Entry and Residence of Third-Country Nationals for the Purpose of Highly Qualified Employment Regulations, S.L. 217.27

    Laws of Malta

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    Standing: Maintains the text in force

    Cannot be cited for: It is not the authentic text. Under article 10(2) of the Statute Law Revision Act, 2021 the authentic text is the revised edition itself, which is the sole and only proper text in all Courts of Justice; the internet publication carries only the rebuttable presumption in article 12(4), so the site is official but defeasible. Two consequences follow for citation. First, the presumption runs only up to the date indicated on the site, and that date appears on the HTML page rather than inside the PDF, so a PDF taken on its own states no cut-off and none should be invented for it. Second, where the Maltese and English texts conflict the Maltese prevails - article 74 of the Constitution for any law, article 10(3) of the 2021 Act for a revised edition - so an English quotation here is the subordinate text and should not be relied on against a Maltese one. It cannot be cited for administrative practice at all: who may apply, what documents are wanted and what a programme currently charges in processing terms are matters for Identita, the Residency Malta Agency and the Commissioner for Revenue, and the instruments repeatedly delegate them to guidelines those bodies may issue.

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  • consolidates
    Fees payable for Residence Permits and Employment Licences Regulations, 2025, L.N. 164 of 2025

    Laws of Malta

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    Standing: Maintains the text in force

    Cannot be cited for: It is not the authentic text. Under article 10(2) of the Statute Law Revision Act, 2021 the authentic text is the revised edition itself, which is the sole and only proper text in all Courts of Justice; the internet publication carries only the rebuttable presumption in article 12(4), so the site is official but defeasible. Two consequences follow for citation. First, the presumption runs only up to the date indicated on the site, and that date appears on the HTML page rather than inside the PDF, so a PDF taken on its own states no cut-off and none should be invented for it. Second, where the Maltese and English texts conflict the Maltese prevails - article 74 of the Constitution for any law, article 10(3) of the 2021 Act for a revised edition - so an English quotation here is the subordinate text and should not be relied on against a Maltese one. It cannot be cited for administrative practice at all: who may apply, what documents are wanted and what a programme currently charges in processing terms are matters for Identita, the Residency Malta Agency and the Commissioner for Revenue, and the instruments repeatedly delegate them to guidelines those bodies may issue.

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