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Hungarian Residence Card and Address Card for a Researcher

Residence Card and Hungarian Address Card

On a general basis, a third-country national family member of an EEA or Swiss citizen has to obtain a Residence Card and report his/her first Hungarian address at the Immigration Office (official name: National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing) withtin 93 days if staying in Hungary more than 90 days within a 180-day period. The Residence Card has to be applied for in Hungary, therefore, generally, this third-country national has to obtain a C-type Schengen visa before entering Hungary to file the application.

When can a Residence Card and an Address Card be applied for?

  • Individuals having third-country nationality only.
  • If this Third-country national is travelling and living with or joining in Hungary to an EEA Citizen and this Third-country National is a family member of the mentioned EEA Citizen.

    • Validity Period

  • at least 91 days,
  • not more than .
    • If this third-country national Researcher intends to stay for more than five years, you can extend this validity period shortly before the expiry date of this residence card.

    Place of Application

  • Immigration Office in Hungary (the appropriate directorate is located in the region of your prospective Hungarian address).

    • Application Fee

  • HUF 1,500 (circa EUR 4).

    • Time period of decision-making:

  • not more than 70 days

    • Rights:

    This third-country national Researcher has the right of free movement and stay. This right is not a result of the obtainment of the Residence Card, but the fact that he/she is a Family Member of an EEA Citizen. Having the right of free movement and stay, you can perform studies (even in a state-funded program), being employed without working authorisation requirement or a and she/he can live with many further rights that other EEA or Hungarian citizens have.

    In order to be a Private Entrepreneur, separate registration has to be made at the Government Office (i.e. this is not related to the Immigration Office).

    Obligations:

  • Report a change in the relationship with the EEA Citizen family member (e.g., death, divorce or break-up the registered partnership) towards the Immigration Office.
  • Hand over the Residence Card and Address Card to the Immigration Office, when leaving the territory of Hungary with final intention.
  • Report towards the Immigration Office if your Residence Card, Address Card, ID card or Passport is stolen, lost or destroyed.
  • Report towards the Immigration Office if your Residence Card, Address Card, ID card or Passport that was believed to be lost (and this fact was reported to the Immigration Office) was finally found.
  • Obtain a new Residence Card, Address Card, ID card or Passport if your previous one were stolen, lost, destroyed or became invalid.

    • You can hand over the Residence Card and Address Card to the Immigration Office when leaving the territory of Hungary with final intention.

    Services & Pricing

    Residence Card for Researcher

    Service Title:
    Obtaining Residence Card for Researchers

    When we help obtain a Residence Card and an Address Card for a Researcher, we provide the following:
  • compile a list of all the documents required for the application,
  • review the application documents,
  • assist in preparing the application package,
  • give guidance in booking an appointment at the Immigration Office to initiate the application procedure,
  • assist your Researcher in filing the application and accompany him/her to the Immigration Office.

    • Pricing:

    In case of more than one Researcher, we provide discount from our standard price of EUR 1,100*.

    Residence Card
    & Address Card
    for 1 Researcher:
    EUR 1,100*

    Residence Card
    & Address Card
    for 2-5 Researchers:
    EUR 1,000*/Researcher

    Residence Card
    & Address Card
    for 6-10 Researchers:
    EUR 900*/Researcher

    Residence Card
    & Address Card
    for 11+ Researchers:
    EUR 800*/Researcher

    The above-mentioned fees do not include value added tax and reasonable additional costs, such as costs of posting or courier services (if any).

    Notifications (Universities' or Colleges' obligation)

    A Higher Education Institution employing a third-country national Researcher, who is a Family Member of an EEA Citizen has immigration relatied notification obligation towards the Immigration Office when the research activity is ending or the research activity fails before it would start. In addition, the Higher Education Institution has to notify the Government Office when the mentioned Third-country National's work starts or ends. From this latter obligation the Higher Education Institution is exempt if the Third-country National is assigned from another EEA Country (i.e. she/he works for the Hungarian Higher Education Institution on the basis of his/her employment contract with another employer seated in an EEA country) or the employment relationship between the Higher Education Institution and the Third-country National does not exist at all.

    We help Hungarian Employer clarify the type of notifications have to be made and also assist them in fulfilling those notifications according to the description below.


    Service Title:
    Fulfilling Notification Obligation

    We offer in this service:
  • clarify the subject of the notification,
  • collect information required for the notification,
  • prepare the notification,
  • send the notification to the responsible authority.

    • Pricing:

    In case of more than one notification, we provide discount from our standard price of EUR 50*.

    Fulfilling Notification Obligation
    1 Notification:
    EUR 50*

    Fulfilling Notification Obligation
    2-5 Notifications:
    EUR 45*/Notification

    Fulfilling Notification Obligation
    6-10 Notifications:
    EUR 40*/Notification

    Fulfilling Notification Obligation
    11+ Notifications:
    EUR 35*/Notification
    The above-mentioned fees do not include value added tax and reasonable additional costs, such as costs of posting or courier services (if any).




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