CHANGE as of 1 May 2025
in the administration procedure of registration certificates and residence cards to be issued to third-country national family members of EEA nationals
Budapest, 30 April 2025
Dear Clients,
Please note that payment of a separate fee for the issuance and delivery by Post of the official document certifying residential address (i.e., ‘lakcímkártya’) in case of persons with the right of free movement establishing a p
The fee shall be still paid by bank transfer both in case of in-person application submission (at a client service office) and in case of electronic case initiation (via the EnterHungary interface) but to a changed
The transfer is required to be completed as follows:
Name of the account holder: National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing
IBAN account number: HU77 10023002-00283511-02000006
Remittance advice comment data field indications: name, date of birth of the applicant, the word: ’lakcímkártya’, and the EnterHungary reference number, in case of a submission via the EnterHungary interface*
Unchanged amount: HUF 5,700 (for persons over the age of 14) or HUF 2,000 (for persons under the age of 14)**
Please note that transfer payments received with an unidentifiable, blank transfer remittance advice data field cannot be accepted by the authority, and the applicant will be required and requested to make a subsequent transfer
Please note that a separate transfer is to be completed even if more than one application (e.g., of a family) is submitted at the same time.
If the applicant can pay the fee for the official document certifying residential address (i.e., ‘lakcímkártya’) and for its designated cost for delivery by Post only by international transfer payment, the transfer to be made s
In the procedure for the issuance of a registration certificate or a residence card, proof of payment of the fee for the issuance of the official document certifying residential address (i.e., ‘lakcímkártya’) is required. In the ab
* EH reference number: the identification number assigned to each case initiated via the EnterHungary electronic case initiation platform; the number consists of the ‘EH’ prefix which is followed by 8 digits.
** ONLY the amount of HUF 5,700 or 2,000 is to be transferred to the indicated bank account.
Please be informed that the International Standard Classification of all Economic Activities (hereinafter referred to as: TEÁOR) will be changed from 1 January 2025, according to the European legislation introducing the new classification of economic activities, the activities of economic organisations must be classified according to the new classification in statistical registers as of 1 January 2025. Consequently, the TEÁOR'08 nomenclature has been replaced by the new TEÁOR'25 nomenclature on the EnterHungary interface. From 1 January 2025, applications may only be submitted by entering the TEÁOR'25 code.
Using the recoding program prepared by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (abbreviation in Hungarian: KSH), it is possible to recode the 2008 TEÁOR code number(s) to the new TEÁOR'25 code number(s).
Dear Client!
Bank Transfer Payment Option:
For the receipt of an application, the Directorate-General can consider transfers made only to the following bank account:10023002-00283511-02000006.
Please indicate the EH (EnterHungary) case number, the name and the date of birth in the comment section. It is important for the identification of the applications that only one fee for a single case can be paid per transfer (as in the past).
Insufficiently submitted applications or payments made in an unidentifiable manner shall not be considered as submitted applications by the Directorate-General – similarly to applications submitted on the EnterHungary platform.
Dear Clients,
we hereby inform you that the following cases are exempt from payment of administrative fee:
Dear Employers,
We hereby inform You that in order to report the beginning and the termination of employing a person who is a beneficiary of temporary protection a separate form is available under the case type “Announcement”. We kindly ask you that regarding beneficiaries of temporary protection report the beginning and the termination of the employment solely by using the designated form!
The National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing hereby thank you your cooperation by complying with the above mentioned rules.
This system helps you submit your application for a residence permit in Hungary electronically, without queuing. If you wish to enter Hungary or the Schengen Area from abroad, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade will help you.
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