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LONG-STAY VISA FEES REGULATIONS
Table of Provisions (8)
Statutory Text (8 Articles)
LONG-STAY VISA FEES
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 35.35
LONG-STAY VISA FEES REGULATIONS
10th July, 2020
LEGAL NOTICE 287 of 2020, as amended by Legal Notice 167 of
2025.
(1)
The title of these Regulations is the Long-stay
Visa Fees Regulations.
(2) For the purposes of these regulations, a long-stay visa
issued to a third-country national shall be valid for a period of not less
than ninety (90) days and shall not exceed a period of three hundred
and sixty five (365) days.
(Regulation 3)
The fees which shall be payable for the granting of a long-stay
visa are the following
(a)
For
employment
or
business
purposes
(i)
standard service
€150
(ii)
extended service
€250
(b)
For study or training purposes
(i)
standard service
€100
(ii)
extended service
€150
(c)
For family reunification or family
visit purposes
(i)
standard service
€150
LONG-STAY VISA FEES
(ii)
extended service
€250
(d)
For any other purpose
(i)
standard service
€150
(ii)
extended service
€250
(e)
Minors between the age of six (6)
€50
to twelve (12) years for any purpose
In these regulations, unless the context, otherwise
requires
"border crossing point" means any crossing point between the
territory of Malta and any other state;
"Central Visa Authority" means the Malta central authority
responsible for the implementation of national visa policies and the
provisions under the Schengen Acquis in so far as visa matters are
concerned;
"extended service" means the fast-track processing of a long-
stay visa application submitted with an external service provider and
processed by the Central Visa Authority
"external service provider" means an enterprise which has been
contracted by the Government to accept the submission of visa
applications and which may collect the relative fees on its behalf;
"long-stay visa" means a visa as defined in Article 18 of the
Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement;
"Minister" means the Minister responsible for home affairs;
"Schengen Acquis" means the Schengen Agreement and
includes all other acts building upon it or otherwise related to it, as
well as related agreements;
"Schengen Agreement" means the Agreement between the
Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the
Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the gradual
abolition of checks at their common borders of the 14 June 1985 and
the Convention of 19 June 1990 implementing the Schengen
Agreement of 14 June 1985 between the Governments of the States of
the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and
the French Republic on the gradual abolition of checks at their
common borders;
LONG-STAY VISA FEES
"third-country national" means any person who is not a Union
citizen within the meaning of Article 20(1) Treaty of the Functioning
of the European Union and who is not covered by point 5 of
Regulation (EU) 2016/399 of the European Parliament of 9 March
2016 on a Union Code on the Rules Governing the Movement of
Persons across Borders (Schengen Borders Code).
The fees specified in the Schedule shall be paid at the
offices of a Consulate of Malta in any country where such a
representation is present or at an external service provider where such
a provider is contracted or at the Central Visa Authority or at the
border crossing points, as the case may be.
Fees paid upon application for a long-stay visa shall not
be refundable.
Notwithstanding the fees specified in the Schedule, long-
stay visas are issued free of charge to
(a)
a family member as defined in article 2 of the Free
Movement of European Union Nationals and their Family
Members Order; and
(b)
minors under six (6) years of age.
Notwithstanding any other provision of these
regulations, long-stay visa fees, for justified reasons, may be waived
by the Central Visa Authority.