🇭🇺Hungary immigration routes

Every route we track for Hungary, with the official source behind each one.

8

routes tracked

1

need no employer sponsor

0

map to permanent residence

Routes

• EU Blue Card

  Hungary's EU Blue Card, implementing the recast Directive (EU) 2021/1883, is a highly-qualified-employment residence permit requiring a valid work contract or binding job offer of at least 6 months, proof the applicant meets national or professional-qualification requirements as applicable, a valid travel document/v…

  • Employer sponsor required
  • About 2 months

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• Guest Worker Residence Permit

  A temporary work-and-residence permit for guest workers tied to listed employers, occupations and sending countries.

  • Sponsorship not yet read

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• Hungarian Card

  The Hungarian Card (magyar kartya) is the national residence permit Hungary issues to third-country nationals coming to do highly skilled work.

  • Sponsorship not yet read

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• Nemzeti tartózkodási kártya és EU tartózkodási kártya

  Under Act XC of 2023 Hungary runs two settlement documents for third-country nationals, and the practical choice between them turns on how long you have been in the country and why.

  • Sponsorship not yet read

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• Residence permit for the purpose of family reunification

  Hungary lets a third-country national who already holds a qualifying status bring close family to live with them.

  • Sponsorship not yet read

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• Residence permit for the purpose of studies

  Hungary's study residence permit is issued to a third-country national who has been accepted by a higher education institution to follow a course of study, or who is coming to take a preparatory course organised by such an institution.

  • Sponsorship not yet read

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• Vendégbefektetői tartózkodási engedély

  The guest investor residence permit (vendégbefektetői tartózkodási engedély) is Hungary's investor route, and it is framed as a national economic interest test rather than an ordinary migration category: it is granted to a third-country national whose entry and stay is in the national economic interest because of th…

  • Sponsorship not yet read

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• White Card – residency for digital nomads

  Hungary's White Card is a residence permit issued to a third-country national (a non-EEA/non-Hungarian-national who is not a family member of an EEA national, or a stateless person) who either has a verified employment relationship with an employer outside Hungary and performs that job remotely from Hungary using di…

  • No employer sponsor needed

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