“Aw sinjura, ejja ara x’passaport sabih ghandi ghalik. L-aqwa kwalita’. Issiefer fejn trid. Bast quality.”

“Hey lady, you wanna buy a passport? Very nice. Mull-tease. Cheap. Good. Take you much places.”

From the Gulf News, today:

One of the popular passport programmes in the market, the Malta Individual Investor Programme, is attracting a considerable interest from residents in the region, including UAE expatriates, with around 30 to 40 per cent of the applicants coming from the Middle East and North Africa (Mena).

According to Marco Gantenbein, managing partner of Henley & Partners Dubai office, Mena residents are the second-biggest investors of the Maltese program after Russians and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) residents.

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“Being a Maltese citizen opens up the horizon for children and an international education for example, as being a [European Union] citizen provides the right to live, work and study in any of the EU countries. And then of course, there is the added benefit of mobility with the visa-free-travel that these passports provide.”