Migration Group

Migration Group is an investment immigration consultancy with its main office in Buġibba, on Malta's northern coast. It helps clients apply for citizenship, permanent residence and residence permits by investment, both in Malta and in other countries, and its team is made up of licensed agents who handle the paperwork, translations and checks themselves. Its website is written in Russian and its clients are mainly Russian-speaking people living in any country, so UK readers should know that the working language is Russian.

The firm is listed in our directory of immigration consultants in Malta. If you are weighing a move to the islands yourself, start with our guide to relocating to Malta from the UK.

History of the company

The business was founded in 2012 as RM Estates Limited, offering concierge services in Malta to Russian-speaking clients. In 2014 it began working with Malta's investment programmes, and in 2016 it united under the Migration Group brand and opened representations in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus.

Caribbean programmes followed from 2017, together with golden visa work in Greece, Spain and Italy. France was added in 2018, Vanuatu and Malta's naturalisation programme for exceptional services in 2020, and Malta's new permanent residence programme in 2021. Throughout, it has worked only within legal state programmes and has analysed risks at the earliest stage of each case.

Programmes in Malta and abroad

In Malta the firm works on citizenship by investment through the national programme, permanent residence and residence for business. Elsewhere it advises on golden visa residence in Greece, Spain, Portugal, France and Hungary, residence for financially independent people in Greece, France, Italy and Spain, citizenship in Cyprus and Turkey, and Caribbean citizenship in Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts and Nevis, Dominica, Grenada and St Lucia, plus Vanuatu. It also offers help with university admission in Greece, Spain and Italy.

Its track record includes more than 170 completed citizenship applications and over 70 residence or permanent residence permits through investment. In Malta, 70 statuses have been granted from 75 applications taken on. Anyone interested in the tax side of a move can read our Malta tax guide for UK nationals, and CLA Malta is our featured partner for company and relocation work.

How the firm works

There is no sales department. Clients speak directly to a partner or specialist in the country concerned, receive all terms up front and are told realistic timescales and costs. Service prices are shown on the website and are the same for everyone. The firm studies a client's business history and risks early, prepares due diligence files, translates and certifies documents, and keeps supporting clients after approval, for example with renewals or adding a newborn child to an approved application.

The leadership includes chief executive Sergey Bezukhov, who focuses on programmes in the Caribbean and Malta, and Anna Shumskaya, who leads the Athens office and specialises in golden visa and study programmes. The firm has a confidentiality clause in its contracts, and its Maltese office includes translators and anti money laundering specialists.

Visiting the Buġibba office

Buġibba is a holiday resort area of St Paul's Bay with restaurants, promenades and hotels, and a lively waterfront that is easy to reach from most of the island. A meeting there also fits neatly around a few days away, with the quieter north of the island and the ferry to Gozo not far off, as our Mellieħa guide explains. See our hotels in Qawra and Buġibba, things to do in Malta, best beaches in Malta and Malta weather by month if you are combining a meeting with a stay.

To start a conversation, use the VisitMalta.co.uk enquiry form on this page and we will pass your message to the firm. The firm offers a free consultation and aims to reply within fifteen minutes.