# Malta work permit processing time (9 figures)

> The median published figure in the Malta Permit Processing Times is 58 percent across 9 figures from 2 sources' own pages (range 11.20 to 97 percent), read 11 November 2026.

Malta Work Permit Checker · https://maltaworkpermitchecker.com/datasets/malta-permit-processing-times/ · computed 2026-11-14

**Median published figure:** 58 % (range 11.2 to 97 %; 9 published figures; 2 of 9 sources read publish one).

2 of the 9 named sources read in full publish a figure; 7 publish none, read 11 November 2026.

The median is unchanged since 26 October 2026 (was 58 percent across 9).

## By measure and sector

| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| measure share of Malta's active workforce from other EU member states | 11.2 % | 11.2 to 11.2 % | 1 |
| measure third country nationals' share of foreign employment in Malta | 70 % | 70 to 70 % | 1 |
| measure share of employed EU nationals in full-time employment | 89 % | 89 to 89 % | 1 |
| measure share of employed third country nationals in full-time employment | 97 % | 97 to 97 % | 1 |
| measure male share of employed EU nationals | 58 % | 58 to 58 % | 1 |
| measure male share of employed third country nationals | 67 % | 67 to 67 % | 1 |
| sector TCN share in professional, scientific, technical, administration and support service activities | 25 % | 25 to 25 % | 1 |
| sector TCN share in wholesale & retail trade, transportation & storage, information & communication | 21 % | 21 to 21 % | 1 |
| sector TCN share in accommodation and food service activities | 16 % | 16 to 16 % | 1 |

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Jobsplus - foreign nationals employment trends](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/labour-market-trends/foreign-nationals-employment-trends) | 97 % | share of employed third country nationals in full-time employment | 2026-11-11 |
| [Jobsplus - foreign nationals employment trends](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/labour-market-trends/foreign-nationals-employment-trends) | 89 % | share of employed EU nationals in full-time employment | 2026-11-11 |
| [Jobsplus - foreign nationals employment trends](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/labour-market-trends/foreign-nationals-employment-trends) | 70 % | third country nationals' share of foreign employment in Malta | 2026-11-11 |
| [Jobsplus - foreign nationals employment trends](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/labour-market-trends/foreign-nationals-employment-trends) | 67 % | male share of employed third country nationals | 2026-11-11 |
| [Jobsplus - foreign nationals employment trends](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/labour-market-trends/foreign-nationals-employment-trends) | 58 % | male share of employed EU nationals | 2026-11-11 |
| [Jobsplus - foreign nationals employment trends](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/labour-market-trends/foreign-nationals-employment-trends) | 25 % | TCN share in professional, scientific, technical, administration and support service activities | 2026-11-11 |
| [Jobsplus - foreign nationals employment trends](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/labour-market-trends/foreign-nationals-employment-trends) | 21 % | TCN share in wholesale & retail trade, transportation & storage, information & communication | 2026-11-11 |
| [Jobsplus - foreign nationals employment trends](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/labour-market-trends/foreign-nationals-employment-trends) | 16 % | TCN share in accommodation and food service activities | 2026-11-11 |
| [EURES - labour market information: Malta](https://eures.europa.eu/living-and-working/labour-market-information/labour-market-information-malta_en) | 11.2 % | share of Malta's active workforce from other EU member states | 2026-11-11 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (9)

- [Jobsplus - foreign nationals employment trends](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/labour-market-trends/foreign-nationals-employment-trends), read 2026-11-11: "97% of TCNs were in full-time employment and 3% were in part-time employment."
- [Jobsplus - foreign nationals employment trends](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/labour-market-trends/foreign-nationals-employment-trends), read 2026-11-11: "As at end of December 2025, almost 89% of employed EU nationals were in full-time employment, while the remaining 11% were employed as part-time."
- [Jobsplus - foreign nationals employment trends](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/labour-market-trends/foreign-nationals-employment-trends), read 2026-11-11: "EU member states share 30% of total foreign employment, Third Country Nationals (TCNs) share 70% of total foreign employment; and EFTA countries (such as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland) share 0.3% of total foreign employment."
- [Jobsplus - foreign nationals employment trends](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/labour-market-trends/foreign-nationals-employment-trends), read 2026-11-11: "Employed Third Country Nationals are segmented as 67% males and 33% females."
- [Jobsplus - foreign nationals employment trends](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/labour-market-trends/foreign-nationals-employment-trends), read 2026-11-11: "Employed EU Nationals are segmented as 58% males and 42% females."
- [Jobsplus - foreign nationals employment trends](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/labour-market-trends/foreign-nationals-employment-trends), read 2026-11-11: "Third Country Nationals are mainly employed (25%) in the Professional, Scientific, Technical, Administration and Support Service Activities sector; Wholesale & Retail Trade; Transportation & Storage; Informat"
- [Jobsplus - foreign nationals employment trends](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/labour-market-trends/foreign-nationals-employment-trends), read 2026-11-11: "tific, Technical, Administration and Support Service Activities sector; Wholesale & Retail Trade; Transportation & Storage; Information & Communication sector (21%); Accommodation and food service activities (16%); Construction (10%); Manufacturing, quarrying and Utilities (9%) and Public Administration, Education, Human"
- [Jobsplus - foreign nationals employment trends](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/labour-market-trends/foreign-nationals-employment-trends), read 2026-11-11: "es (16%); Construction (10%); Manufacturing, quarrying and Utilities (9%) and Public Administration, Education, Human Health and Social Work Activities sector (9%)."
- [EURES - labour market information: Malta](https://eures.europa.eu/living-and-working/labour-market-information/labour-market-information-malta_en), read 2026-11-11: "In 2023, 59.7% of the active workforce were from Malta, 11.2% from other EU Member States and 28.7 from third countries."

## Read in full, publishes no figure

- [Identita - application processing period (Expatriates Unit)](https://identita.gov.mt/expatriates-unit-useful-information-application-processing-period/), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Identita - single permit application processing period](https://identita.gov.mt/expatriates-unit-main-page/noneu-nationals/employment-related-permits/single-permit/application-processing-period/), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Jobsplus - employment trends](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/labour-market-trends/employment-trends), read 2026-11-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Jobsplus - labour market information, foreigners data](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/resources/publication-statistics-mt-mt-en-gb/labour-market-information/foreigners-data), read 2026-11-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Eurostat - residence permits, authorisations to reside and work](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Residence_permits_%E2%80%93_statistics_on_authorisations_to_reside_and_work), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Eurostat - first permits by reason (migr_resfirst)](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/migr_resfirst/default/table), read 2026-11-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [NSO Malta - labour market statistics](https://nso.gov.mt/labour-market/), read 2026-11-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page

## Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 9 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 7 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 9 figures, never sentences; 112 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the published processing period per route beside the issued-permit series: Jobsplus's foreign-worker stock by nationality class and sector, and Eurostat's first-permits-by-reason for Malta on the comparable EU basis; across them the wait a person should actually expect per route, how Malta's issuance per head compares with the EU, and changed-since each release

## Sources

- [Identita - application processing period (Expatriates Unit)](https://identita.gov.mt/expatriates-unit-useful-information-application-processing-period/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Identita - single permit application processing period](https://identita.gov.mt/expatriates-unit-main-page/noneu-nationals/employment-related-permits/single-permit/application-processing-period/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Jobsplus - foreign nationals employment trends](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/labour-market-trends/foreign-nationals-employment-trends) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Jobsplus - employment trends](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/labour-market-trends/employment-trends) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Jobsplus - labour market information, foreigners data](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/resources/publication-statistics-mt-mt-en-gb/labour-market-information/foreigners-data) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Eurostat - residence permits, authorisations to reside and work](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Residence_permits_%E2%80%93_statistics_on_authorisations_to_reside_and_work) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Eurostat - first permits by reason (migr_resfirst)](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/migr_resfirst/default/table) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [EURES - labour market information: Malta](https://eures.europa.eu/living-and-working/labour-market-information/labour-market-information-malta_en) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [NSO Malta - labour market statistics](https://nso.gov.mt/labour-market/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

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- The median published figure in the Malta Permit Processing Times is 58 percent across 9 figures from 2 sources' own pages (range 11.20 to 97 percent), read 11 November 2026.
- 2 of the 9 named sources read in full publish a figure; 7 publish none, read 11 November 2026.
- Malta Permit Processing Times, measure share of Malta's active workforce from other EU member states: median 11.20 percent across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
- Malta Permit Processing Times, measure third country nationals' share of foreign employment in Malta: median 70 percent across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
- Malta Permit Processing Times, measure share of employed EU nationals in full-time employment: median 89 percent across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
- Malta Permit Processing Times, measure share of employed third country nationals in full-time employment: median 97 percent across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
- Malta Permit Processing Times, measure male share of employed EU nationals: median 58 percent across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
- Malta Permit Processing Times, measure male share of employed third country nationals: median 67 percent across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
- Malta Permit Processing Times, sector TCN share in professional, scientific, technical, administration and support service activities: median 25 percent across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
- Malta Permit Processing Times, sector TCN share in wholesale & retail trade, transportation & storage, information & communication: median 21 percent across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
- Malta Permit Processing Times, sector TCN share in accommodation and food service activities: median 16 percent across 1 source, read 11 November 2026.
- The median is unchanged since 26 October 2026 (was 58 percent across 9).

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