Hello everyone,
I'm a British expat, I just bought a property in Malta to use as my primary home. Now I want to get registered as Resident here asap.
I'd be grateful if anyone who has experience of applying for residency on the basis of economic self-sufficiency could shed some light on this for me. I have the provisional health care entitlement certificate in hand. To get that I apparently needed to have already been in Malta over 6 months.
Now I am going to fill in the Form J residency application on the basis of self-sufficiency and it asks me for my "Date of First Settlement in Malta". I was sleeping on friend's sofas etc whilst waiting for my property purchase to go through so proving the history of where I've lived in Malta is going to be difficult. The form mentions that I should apply if I've been in Malta for over 3 months. So is the ideal response a date over 3 months ago or 6 months ago? And will I be required to prove where I stayed during the last few months?
Thanks for any insight into this anyone can offer.