Alexander Brown's team has guided individuals and their families through Malta's Permanent Residence Programme and the UAE's Golden and Green Visa routes, along with the corporate relocation work that often comes with them.

Alexander Brown's team has guided individuals and their families through Malta's Permanent Residence Programme and the UAE's Golden and Green Visa routes, along with the corporate relocation work that often accompanies a move between the two jurisdictions. Immigration matters rarely stand alone; they usually connect directly to a property purchase, a business relocation, or a family's broader succession and tax planning.

Both Malta and the UAE have built residency frameworks specifically designed to attract international individuals and capital, but the two operate quite differently in structure, cost, and the ongoing obligations they place on the holder. Choosing the right programme, and executing the application correctly, requires understanding both in genuine depth.

This page covers the immigration and residency routes we handle most often across Malta and the UAE, and the questions clients ask most frequently as they plan a move or a second residency between the two.

Malta Permanent Residence Programme

The MPRP grants permanent residence to qualifying applicants who meet specific investment, property, and financial requirements, offering the applicant and their family the right to reside in Malta indefinitely and, with it, access to the Schengen area for travel purposes. We manage the full application process, from initial eligibility assessment through document preparation and submission to final approval.

Beyond the MPRP, we advise on Malta's citizenship by naturalisation for exceptional services route, a considerably more rigorous and higher-threshold process reserved for applicants who meet specific contribution and investment criteria, and on ordinary work and residence permits for clients relocating to Malta for employment rather than through an investment-based route.

UAE Golden Visa And Green Visa

The UAE's Golden Visa offers long-term residency, typically for periods considerably longer than standard UAE visas, to qualifying investors, entrepreneurs, and certain skilled professionals, removing the need for the more frequent renewal and sponsor-dependency associated with standard UAE residence visas. The Green Visa offers a similar, though distinct, long-term route for other categories of skilled professionals and freelancers.

We advise on which route and qualifying category best fits a client's actual circumstances, whether that's real estate investment, business ownership, or professional qualification, and manage the application process directly, including confirming that a specific property or business investment actually satisfies the qualifying criteria in force at the time of application.

Corporate Relocation And Employee Mobility

Businesses expanding between Malta and the UAE frequently need to relocate staff, and we advise on the employment, immigration, and tax consequences of that move together, since these three areas interact directly and a decision made purely on immigration grounds can create unintended employment or tax consequences if not considered as a whole.

Family Reunification

Both the MPRP and the UAE's residency programmes extend to qualifying family members, and we manage family reunification applications alongside a primary applicant's own residency application, ensuring dependants are properly included from the outset rather than requiring a separate, delayed application process afterward.

Frequently Asked Questions