{"id":937,"date":"2013-12-27T00:30:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T05:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepassportoffice.com\/blog\/malta-becomes-the-latest-sunny-haven-for-shady-people\/"},"modified":"2022-02-11T14:27:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T19:27:57","slug":"malta-becomes-the-latest-sunny-haven-for-shady-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepassportoffice.com\/blog\/malta-becomes-the-latest-sunny-haven-for-shady-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Malta becomes the latest &#039;sunny haven for shady people&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Malta becomes the latest &#39;sunny haven for shady people&#39;<\/strong><br \/>\nThey form community bonds but are constrained to renew visas and residence permits. Instead of a clear framework and citizenship tests for good-quality members of the community, Malta wants to sell EU passports at \u20ac650,000. Scratch that. Bring your &#8230;<br \/>\n<i>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2013\/12\/19\/malta-becomes-the-latest-sunny-haven-for-shady-people\/\">National Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong><b>Passports<\/b> in a jiffy<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cIt took just about 10 minutes to get my passport today, but three years ago it took my dad (Choong Kai Wai), seven hours to drive from Melbourne to Canberra to renew our passports,&#39;&#39; said Andrew. \u201cI am impressed by how fast it can be done in Melbourne&nbsp;&#8230;<br \/>\n<i>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/News\/Education\/2013\/12\/08\/Passports-in-a-jiffy-By-NEVILLE-DCRUZ.aspx\">The Star Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malta becomes the latest &#39;sunny haven for shady people&#39; They form community bonds but are constrained to renew visas and residence permits. Instead of a clear framework and citizenship tests for good-quality members of the community, Malta wants to sell EU passports at \u20ac650,000. Scratch that. Bring your &#8230; Read more on National Post Passports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[2443,1670,2444,134,2442,176,2446,2445],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-39sunny","tag-becomes","tag-haven","tag-latest","tag-malta","tag-passports","tag-people39","tag-shady"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Malta becomes the latest &#039;sunny haven for shady people&#039; - The Passport Office Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thepassportoffice.com\/blog\/malta-becomes-the-latest-sunny-haven-for-shady-people\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Malta becomes the latest &#039;sunny haven for shady people&#039; - The Passport Office Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Malta becomes the latest &#039;sunny haven for shady people&#039; They form community bonds but are constrained to renew visas and residence permits. 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