Comments on: Have you missed this? The government is going to sell more passports to make up for ‘introducing a one-year residency requirement’ https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/have-you-missed-this-the-government-is-going-to-sell-more-passports-to-make-up-for-introducing-a-one-year-residency-requirement/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:18:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Darius https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/have-you-missed-this-the-government-is-going-to-sell-more-passports-to-make-up-for-introducing-a-one-year-residency-requirement/#comment-2733364 Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:18:46 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43880#comment-2733364 http://diplomaticsecondpassport.com/index.html is a well know scam, from the serial scammer carvalho@nm.ru (they change identities and emails addresses year after year). There are scams report dated almost 10 years old,so beware.

]]> By: curious https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/have-you-missed-this-the-government-is-going-to-sell-more-passports-to-make-up-for-introducing-a-one-year-residency-requirement/#comment-1542700 Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:30:30 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43880#comment-1542700 In reply to manum.

I agree, I don’t think that the EU has knowingly opened doors for such a scheme to be copied by others.

]]> By: manum https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/have-you-missed-this-the-government-is-going-to-sell-more-passports-to-make-up-for-introducing-a-one-year-residency-requirement/#comment-1542565 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 22:45:04 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43880#comment-1542565 But I do not believe that this saga is over yet. I am sure that EU states are aware of the scam, It is yet a matter of time when they start to clamour for the EU to legislate on the matter.

]]> By: La Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/have-you-missed-this-the-government-is-going-to-sell-more-passports-to-make-up-for-introducing-a-one-year-residency-requirement/#comment-1542370 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 20:24:31 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43880#comment-1542370 In reply to ketchup.

No one who buys a passport has plans to live in Malta.

]]> By: Tarzan https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/have-you-missed-this-the-government-is-going-to-sell-more-passports-to-make-up-for-introducing-a-one-year-residency-requirement/#comment-1542346 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 20:09:17 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43880#comment-1542346 Daphne, I think the passport law fiasco holds the record in Maltese politics for the most fact-twisting, lies, misinformation, mishandling, rushing blindly through parliament, U-turns, saying something and doing something else, secrecy, etc. etc.

How about a blog-post on this subject, so that we all can share comments while it is all fresh in our minds?

]]> By: Pluribus https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/have-you-missed-this-the-government-is-going-to-sell-more-passports-to-make-up-for-introducing-a-one-year-residency-requirement/#comment-1542278 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 19:21:30 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43880#comment-1542278 I really do hope that Joseph Muscat is considering the impact of selling citizenship to so many rich people as it will have a ripple effect on schools, university, hospitals etc etc. Rich people have an knack to get back as much as they can when spending/investing money. I am quite sure that they will be sending their offspring to ‘safe’ Malta for free schools university hospitals etc. All this is included for free when buying an EU/Maltese passport. We are talking about some 6000 people here not a boatload of migrants who have few rights in Malta

]]> By: Martin Felice https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/have-you-missed-this-the-government-is-going-to-sell-more-passports-to-make-up-for-introducing-a-one-year-residency-requirement/#comment-1542229 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 18:49:26 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43880#comment-1542229 Now that the EU have agreed that citizenship can be given against payment and a 12 months (read 183 days) stay in Malta, a EU country, other EU countries can easily follow suit. And so can Montenegro, after calling it off.

]]> By: SA https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/have-you-missed-this-the-government-is-going-to-sell-more-passports-to-make-up-for-introducing-a-one-year-residency-requirement/#comment-1542150 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:56:28 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43880#comment-1542150 I was 200% sure that somehow the capping would b raised.

The PM is fully aware that now the one-year residency requirement makes his diabolical scheme less appealing to tycoons so yesterday in the press conference he refers to this requirement as just a ‘formality’.

So what is his little mind scheming now? I’m afraid that there will be no end to the IIP scheme saga. Shame on him.

]]> By: Calculator https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/have-you-missed-this-the-government-is-going-to-sell-more-passports-to-make-up-for-introducing-a-one-year-residency-requirement/#comment-1542136 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:42:43 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43880#comment-1542136 The scheme still makes inequality in Malta that much worse. People who’ve lived for so many years and contribute to our economy aren’t even allowed to dream of getting citizenship, while the rich get it after just one year of residence (whatever interpretation they give it). Either way, was there any doubt the changes to the scheme were going to be anything but superficial?

]]> By: Slimiz https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/have-you-missed-this-the-government-is-going-to-sell-more-passports-to-make-up-for-introducing-a-one-year-residency-requirement/#comment-1542116 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:32:45 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43880#comment-1542116 In reply to canon.

He’s made us the best laughing stock in Europe.

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