The Guest Investor Route Is Still Open and the Option Everyone Still Quotes Is Shut: Buying a 500,000 Euro Home Was Removed From the Act at the Turn of 2024
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172 exceptions recorded across 63 countries · none match Peru to Hungary · Residency through investment
Hungary's guest investor programme runs on two documents. The vendegbefektetoi vizum under section 16 of Act XC of 2023 buys time to arrange the investment; the vendegbefektetoi tartozkodasi engedely under section 22 is the residence permit, and at ten years renewable by ten it is the longest first grant in the Act by a factor of five. What has changed is what counts as the investment. As the Act was promulgated in Magyar Kozlony on 21 December 2023 its section 16(3) offered three things: units of at least 250,000 EUR in a real-estate fund registered by the Magyar Nemzeti Bank, acquisition of an ownership share of at least 500,000 EUR in unencumbered residential property physically in Hungary, and a donation of at least 1,000,000 EUR to a higher education institution maintained by a public-interest asset management foundation. Section 135(2) of Act LXXXIV of 2024 replaced that paragraph, and the text in force carries only the fund units and the donation. The same section cut the visa from at most two years to six months. The residential property option survives in exactly one place: section 22(13)(b) still allows an existing holder to renew where their permit was based on it. The fund route has conditions of its own that no summary carries - section 22(9) requires the units to be subscribed directly and held continuously for at least five years, in a fund with at least 40 per cent of its net asset value in Hungarian residential property, whose manager appears on the register of qualified market participants kept under the defence and security procurement Act.
At a glance
- Fund investment
- At least 250,000 EUR of units in a real-estate fund registered by the Magyar Nemzeti Bank
Section 16(3)(a) of Act XC of 2023, as established by section 135(2) of Act LXXXIV of 2024.
- Donation alternative
- At least 1,000,000 EUR to a higher education institution maintained by a public-interest asset management foundation
Section 16(3)(b) of Act XC of 2023, for education, scientific research or artistic creation.
- Residential property option
- Removed: the 500,000 EUR purchase is no longer in section 16(3) of Act XC of 2023
It stood in the Act as promulgated on 21 December 2023 and section 135(2) of Act LXXXIV of 2024 replaced the paragraph without it. Section 22(13)(b) still allows renewal to a holder whose permit rested on it.
- How long the fund units must be held
- At least 5 years
Section 22(9) of Act XC of 2023, which also requires direct subscription and continuous holding.
- What the fund itself must be
- At least 40 per cent of net asset value in Hungarian residential property, with a manager on the qualified market participants register
Section 22(9)(a) and (b) of Act XC of 2023, the register being the one kept under Act XXX of 2016 on defence and security procurement, with the Constitution Protection Office acting.
- Visa validity
- 6 months
Section 16(5) of Act XC of 2023, as established by section 135(3) of Act LXXXIV of 2024. The Act as promulgated read at most two years.
- Permit validity
- 10 years, extendable by 10
Section 22(6) of Act XC of 2023, which also allows the permit to outlast the applicant's passport.
- Work during it
- Unrestricted, for the holder and for the family permit
Section 22(2) of Act XC of 2023, which says the holder is entitled to work in Hungary without restriction.
- Deadline to apply for the permit
- 30 days from first entry
Section 22(5) of Act XC of 2023, at the immigration authority or through the electronic portal.
- Deadline to prove the investment
- Within the visa's validity, or 6 months from first entry for an Annex II national
Section 22(7) of Act XC of 2023, which also forbids the authority to terminate the procedure for want of that proof while the visa is still valid.
- Family
- Allowed, and for up to 10 years at a time
Section 73(1)(d) of Act XC of 2023 gives the family permit of a guest investor the same ten-year term, which no other sponsor has.
Requirements
- Units of at least 250,000 EUR in a qualifying Hungarian real-estate fund, held for at least five years, or a donation of at least 1,000,000 EUR to a Hungarian higher education institution
- A guest investor visa first, or lawful presence as an Annex II national, and the permit application within 30 days of first entry
- Proof that the investment was actually made, within the visa's validity or within six months of first entry
Country-level policy
Act II of 2007 on the entry and residence of third-country nationals governed Hungarian immigration for sixteen years and it is not law. Act XC of 2023 replaced it, and did so in two steps that are a day apart. Section 350 of the new Act repealed sections 1 to 120 of the old one - every substantive provision, listed point by point across eighteen lettered items. Section 351 then repealed the Act itself. Section 285(1) brought the new Act into force on 1 January 2024 and section 285(2) held section 351 back to 2 January 2024, so for the whole of 1 January 2024 Act II of 2007 existed as a title and a set of empty section numbers with no content in any of them. The National Legislation Database records the consequence on its own page for the Act, which is dated Hatalyos: 2024. 01. 01. - 2024. 01. 01. The new Act opens with a preamble that no other instrument in this corpus matches in tone, and it is worth reading because it states what the drafters were trying to do with the chapters that follow.
Section 83(2)(b) of Act XC of 2023 makes the social coexistence conditions a condition of the national residence card, and section 87(4) extends the same requirement to the EU residence card, so both routes to settled status in Hungary pass through it. Section 80(1) of Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.) says what it means in practice: a Hungarian cultural knowledge examination. Section 81(6) provides that the examination is written and in Hungarian, which makes it a language requirement as well as a knowledge one although no provision read here sets a language level. The fee is 20,000 forints a sitting under section 80(4), payable before admission. Section 80(2) exempts only three classes - a person who has already passed it in another immigration procedure, a third-country national under 14, and one placed under guardianship by a final court judgment. The authority must announce at least four sittings a month and give fifteen working days' notice, and the result is pass or fail, announced on the spot. The provision with no counterpart elsewhere in this corpus is section 81(11): where an applicant finishes the examination with a fail three times, a further application to sit it must be refused. There is no waiting period and no second chance after it, and the refusal is of the application to sit rather than of the residence application. Section 79(2) exempts the national residence card issued in the national interest from the whole requirement.
Section 7(1) of Act XC of 2023 states a principle no other statute in this corpus states so plainly: a foreign national may stay in Hungary on one ground at a time, and where they acquire an entitlement on a second ground the earlier one must be withdrawn. The architecture built on it is what makes the Hungarian system hard to move around in. The guest self-employed permit (section 21(6)), the employment permit (section 28(8)), the guest worker permit (section 31(4)) and the White Card (section 62(5)) each carry the same sentence: during the permit's validity and after it expires, a residence permit on another ground may not be applied for within the country. The holder has to leave and apply from abroad. A second layer bars the same people from settled status: section 83(5) lists thirteen permit types from which the national residence card cannot be reached, and section 84(3)(b) excludes White Card time from the three years anyone else would be accumulating. A third layer bars them from bringing family: section 71(4) lists nine classes of sponsor who cannot, with one exception in section 71(5) for a child born in Hungary while the permit is in force. And section 19(3) adds a condition on extension that reads oddly until you see what it is for: a permit may be extended only where the holder's stay on it has already exceeded ninety days in any 180, which stops a permit being obtained and then renewed by someone who never really came. Section 7(2) requires the person to leave the country without delay when the entitlement expires.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Peru
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«A (2) bekezdés a) pontjában és a 22\. § (3) bekezdés a) pontjában foglaltak alkalmazásában nemzetgazdasági érdeknek kell tekinteni az alábbi befektetések megvalósítását: a) a Magyar Nemzeti Bank által nyilvántartásba vett ingatlanalap által kibocsátott, legalább 250 000 euró összegű befektetési jegy megszerzése, vagy b) legalább 1 000 000 euró értékben, oktatási, tudományos kutatási, művészeti alkotótevékenység támogatása céljából pénzbeli adomány nyújtása valamely közfeladatot ellátó közérdekű vagyonkezelő alapítvány által fenntartott felsőoktatási intézmény részére.»Our translation - not official
For the purposes of paragraph (2)(a) and of section 22(3)(a), the realisation of the following investments shall be regarded as a national economic interest: a) acquisition of investment units of at least 250,000 EUR issued by a real-estate fund registered by the Magyar Nemzeti Bank, or b) the giving of a monetary donation of at least 1,000,000 EUR in value, for the purpose of supporting education, scientific research or artistic creation, to a higher education institution maintained by a public-interest asset management foundation performing a public task.
Known to be out of date. The National Legislation Database dates this time-state 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 12. 31., which on its own definition in section 1 of Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) means the text changes on 1 January 2027. The instrument that changes it was not read.
The list in force. Two options where the Act was passed with three, and the citation is to this paragraph as established by section 135(2) of Act LXXXIV of 2024.
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The Hungarian state's own electronic collection of legislation, operated for the Minister of Justice by Magyar Kozlony Lap- es Konyvkiado Kft. under a public service contract, and the only place a consolidated Hungarian statute is published at all. Section 29(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 defines it; Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) sets the duties. Section 2(1) of the decree requires every statute in force to appear in consolidated form with all of its past time-states back to 1 January 2010 and its next three; section 2(3) requires the consolidation within three working days of promulgation. **Read the host carefully: section 8(1) of the decree still names www.njt.hu and the service that answers is njt.jog.gov.hu.** The address shape is njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-00-00 for an Act, using the Act's Roman numeral converted to Arabic - Act XC of 2023 is 2023-90-00-00, Act LV of 1993 is 1993-55-00-00, Act CXVII of 1995 is 1995-117-00-00 - and njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-20-22 for a government decree, so Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.) is 2024-35-20-22. The decisive thing on every page is the line under the title: Hatalyos: 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 12. 31. By the definition of a time-state in section 1 of the decree, the closing date is the day before the text changes, so a page with a closing date is telling the reader that the law will be different on the day after it, and Nem ismert means no change is yet scheduled. Footnotes at the foot of the text name, for every amended paragraph, the Act or decree that put the current words there, which is the only machine-readable amendment history in the corpus.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Nothing published here is the authentic text and Hungarian law says so in terms.** Section 25(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 confers authenticity on the Magyar Kozlony and section 25(2) forbids a consolidated text from being published in the Magyar Kozlony at all, so the authentic text and the current text are in two different places by design and the consolidation is never the authentic one. Neither Act CXXX of 2010 nor Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) uses the word hiteles of this database anywhere. The practical limitation that follows is narrower than it sounds and bites hard in one place: **an amending provision disappears from here once it has done its work.** Section 12(2) of Act CXXX of 2010 makes an amending provision lose force the day after it takes effect, and the consolidated text of the amending Act then prints only a footnote saying so, stripping the subtitle headings with it. Act XC of 2023 as served here therefore contains neither section 350 nor section 351, the two provisions that repealed the statute it replaced; Act LXXXIV of 2024 as served here contains neither section 135, which removed the 500,000 EUR property option from the guest investor programme, nor the subtitle that would say which commencement date applied to it. **For what was enacted, and for when, read the Magyar Kozlony issue.** It also cannot be cited for anything kept outside the statute book, and the 2023 immigration Act pushes a great deal out there: the government decree naming which nationalities may hold a guest worker permit or a National Card, the ministerial communication fixing the annual permit number under sections 28(4) and 30(4), the communication listing excluded occupations, the communication fixing the EU Blue Card salary under section 48(7) of Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.), and the registers of preferential employers and qualified temporary-work agencies. Nor is it the place to read a figure a statute re-indexes: section 25(3) of Act CXXX of 2019 prints a health service contribution of 7,710 forints set in 2020 and in the same breath provides that the rate in force is published each year by the National Tax and Customs Administration on its own website.
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«b) legalább 500 000 euró összegnek megfelelő értékű, természetben Magyarország földrajzi területén található, az ingatlan-nyilvántartásban helyrajzi szám szerint nyilvántartott per-, teher- és igénymentes lakóingatlanban – ide nem értve a 22. § (11) bekezdése szerinti elidegenítési és terhelési tilalmat – tulajdoni illetőség megszerzése, vagy»Our translation - not official
b) acquisition of an ownership share of a value corresponding to at least 500,000 EUR in residential property situated in kind within the geographical territory of Hungary, recorded in the land register by lot number, free of litigation, encumbrance and claim - not counting the prohibition on alienation and encumbrance under section 22(11) - or
The option as the Parliament passed it, read in the official gazette rather than in the consolidated text, because the consolidated text no longer contains it.
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The official journal of Hungary, and the only authentic text of Hungarian legislation. Section 25(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 provides that it is issued by publication as an electronic document on the government portal and that its text shall be regarded as authentic; section 25/A(1) has the responsible editor sign each issue with a qualified electronic signature and a time stamp, and section 25/A(4) forbids a published issue from being removed from the portal. Section 26(1) requires every statute except a local government decree to be promulgated in it. An issue is a single PDF containing everything promulgated that day: Magyar Kozlony 2023. evi 185. szam of 21 December 2023 runs to 1.7 million characters and carries the twelfth amendment of the Fundamental Law, Act XC of 2023 on the entry and residence of third-country nationals across pages 10447 to 10578, and twenty-odd other Acts. Issues are downloaded from magyarkozlony.hu through an opaque per-document path ending in /letoltes rather than by a readable number, so the address has to be found from the issue listing and cannot be constructed.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: **It is the text as enacted and never the text in force.** Section 25(2) of Act CXXX of 2010 forbids a consolidated text from being published here at all, so an issue is evidence of what a provision said on the day it was promulgated and of nothing after that. The guest investor programme is the case that shows why both publishers are needed: this journal carries the 500,000 EUR residential property option and the two-year visa that the Parliament passed, and both were replaced within a year. **Read it for repeals, commencement rules and original wording; read the National Legislation Database for what the law says today.** It is also an awkward document to quote from: a single issue is a very long PDF of many unrelated Acts, so a short quotation is likely to occur in more than one of them, and the page furniture of the running head interrupts sentences at every page break. It cannot be cited for anything not promulgated in it - local government decrees go elsewhere under section 26(1), and ministerial communications of the kind the 2023 immigration Act relies on for the annual permit number and the excluded occupations are not statutes at all.
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«(5) A vendégbefektetői vízum érvényességi ideje legfeljebb két év.»Our translation - not official
(5) The validity of the guest investor visa is at most two years.
The visa as promulgated. The text in force reads six months.
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The official journal of Hungary, and the only authentic text of Hungarian legislation. Section 25(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 provides that it is issued by publication as an electronic document on the government portal and that its text shall be regarded as authentic; section 25/A(1) has the responsible editor sign each issue with a qualified electronic signature and a time stamp, and section 25/A(4) forbids a published issue from being removed from the portal. Section 26(1) requires every statute except a local government decree to be promulgated in it. An issue is a single PDF containing everything promulgated that day: Magyar Kozlony 2023. evi 185. szam of 21 December 2023 runs to 1.7 million characters and carries the twelfth amendment of the Fundamental Law, Act XC of 2023 on the entry and residence of third-country nationals across pages 10447 to 10578, and twenty-odd other Acts. Issues are downloaded from magyarkozlony.hu through an opaque per-document path ending in /letoltes rather than by a readable number, so the address has to be found from the issue listing and cannot be constructed.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: **It is the text as enacted and never the text in force.** Section 25(2) of Act CXXX of 2010 forbids a consolidated text from being published here at all, so an issue is evidence of what a provision said on the day it was promulgated and of nothing after that. The guest investor programme is the case that shows why both publishers are needed: this journal carries the 500,000 EUR residential property option and the two-year visa that the Parliament passed, and both were replaced within a year. **Read it for repeals, commencement rules and original wording; read the National Legislation Database for what the law says today.** It is also an awkward document to quote from: a single issue is a very long PDF of many unrelated Acts, so a short quotation is likely to occur in more than one of them, and the page furniture of the running head interrupts sentences at every page break. It cannot be cited for anything not promulgated in it - local government decrees go elsewhere under section 26(1), and ministerial communications of the kind the 2023 immigration Act relies on for the annual permit number and the excluded occupations are not statutes at all.
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«41. § (1) Ez a törvény – a (2)–(10) bekezdésben foglalt kivétellel – 2024. december 30-án lép hatályba.»Our translation - not official
Section 41 (1) This Act - with the exceptions set out in paragraphs (2) to (10) - enters into force on 30 December 2024.
The main commencement date of the Act that removed the property option. Paragraph (2) brings a long list of provisions into force on 1 January 2025 instead, and the consolidated text no longer shows which subtitle section 135 belonged to, so this record does not state which of the two dates applies to it.
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The Hungarian state's own electronic collection of legislation, operated for the Minister of Justice by Magyar Kozlony Lap- es Konyvkiado Kft. under a public service contract, and the only place a consolidated Hungarian statute is published at all. Section 29(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 defines it; Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) sets the duties. Section 2(1) of the decree requires every statute in force to appear in consolidated form with all of its past time-states back to 1 January 2010 and its next three; section 2(3) requires the consolidation within three working days of promulgation. **Read the host carefully: section 8(1) of the decree still names www.njt.hu and the service that answers is njt.jog.gov.hu.** The address shape is njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-00-00 for an Act, using the Act's Roman numeral converted to Arabic - Act XC of 2023 is 2023-90-00-00, Act LV of 1993 is 1993-55-00-00, Act CXVII of 1995 is 1995-117-00-00 - and njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-20-22 for a government decree, so Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.) is 2024-35-20-22. The decisive thing on every page is the line under the title: Hatalyos: 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 12. 31. By the definition of a time-state in section 1 of the decree, the closing date is the day before the text changes, so a page with a closing date is telling the reader that the law will be different on the day after it, and Nem ismert means no change is yet scheduled. Footnotes at the foot of the text name, for every amended paragraph, the Act or decree that put the current words there, which is the only machine-readable amendment history in the corpus.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Nothing published here is the authentic text and Hungarian law says so in terms.** Section 25(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 confers authenticity on the Magyar Kozlony and section 25(2) forbids a consolidated text from being published in the Magyar Kozlony at all, so the authentic text and the current text are in two different places by design and the consolidation is never the authentic one. Neither Act CXXX of 2010 nor Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) uses the word hiteles of this database anywhere. The practical limitation that follows is narrower than it sounds and bites hard in one place: **an amending provision disappears from here once it has done its work.** Section 12(2) of Act CXXX of 2010 makes an amending provision lose force the day after it takes effect, and the consolidated text of the amending Act then prints only a footnote saying so, stripping the subtitle headings with it. Act XC of 2023 as served here therefore contains neither section 350 nor section 351, the two provisions that repealed the statute it replaced; Act LXXXIV of 2024 as served here contains neither section 135, which removed the 500,000 EUR property option from the guest investor programme, nor the subtitle that would say which commencement date applied to it. **For what was enacted, and for when, read the Magyar Kozlony issue.** It also cannot be cited for anything kept outside the statute book, and the 2023 immigration Act pushes a great deal out there: the government decree naming which nationalities may hold a guest worker permit or a National Card, the ministerial communication fixing the annual permit number under sections 28(4) and 30(4), the communication listing excluded occupations, the communication fixing the EU Blue Card salary under section 48(7) of Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.), and the registers of preferential employers and qualified temporary-work agencies. Nor is it the place to read a figure a statute re-indexes: section 25(3) of Act CXXX of 2019 prints a health service contribution of 7,710 forints set in 2020 and in the same breath provides that the rate in force is published each year by the National Tax and Customs Administration on its own website.
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«(6) A vendégbefektetői tartózkodási engedély érvényességi ideje legfeljebb tíz év, amely kizárólag ugyanezen célból legfeljebb tíz évvel hosszabbítható meg. A vendégbefektetői tartózkodási engedély érvényességi ideje meghaladhatja a kérelmező úti okmányának az érvényességi idejét.»Our translation - not official
(6) The validity of the guest investor residence permit is at most ten years, which may be extended, for the same purpose only, by at most ten years. The validity of the guest investor residence permit may exceed the validity of the applicant's travel document.
Known to be out of date. The National Legislation Database dates this time-state 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 12. 31., which on its own definition in section 1 of Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) means the text changes on 1 January 2027. The instrument that changes it was not read.
Ten years at the first grant, where a work permit gets two and a self-employment permit one.
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The Hungarian state's own electronic collection of legislation, operated for the Minister of Justice by Magyar Kozlony Lap- es Konyvkiado Kft. under a public service contract, and the only place a consolidated Hungarian statute is published at all. Section 29(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 defines it; Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) sets the duties. Section 2(1) of the decree requires every statute in force to appear in consolidated form with all of its past time-states back to 1 January 2010 and its next three; section 2(3) requires the consolidation within three working days of promulgation. **Read the host carefully: section 8(1) of the decree still names www.njt.hu and the service that answers is njt.jog.gov.hu.** The address shape is njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-00-00 for an Act, using the Act's Roman numeral converted to Arabic - Act XC of 2023 is 2023-90-00-00, Act LV of 1993 is 1993-55-00-00, Act CXVII of 1995 is 1995-117-00-00 - and njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-20-22 for a government decree, so Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.) is 2024-35-20-22. The decisive thing on every page is the line under the title: Hatalyos: 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 12. 31. By the definition of a time-state in section 1 of the decree, the closing date is the day before the text changes, so a page with a closing date is telling the reader that the law will be different on the day after it, and Nem ismert means no change is yet scheduled. Footnotes at the foot of the text name, for every amended paragraph, the Act or decree that put the current words there, which is the only machine-readable amendment history in the corpus.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Nothing published here is the authentic text and Hungarian law says so in terms.** Section 25(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 confers authenticity on the Magyar Kozlony and section 25(2) forbids a consolidated text from being published in the Magyar Kozlony at all, so the authentic text and the current text are in two different places by design and the consolidation is never the authentic one. Neither Act CXXX of 2010 nor Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) uses the word hiteles of this database anywhere. The practical limitation that follows is narrower than it sounds and bites hard in one place: **an amending provision disappears from here once it has done its work.** Section 12(2) of Act CXXX of 2010 makes an amending provision lose force the day after it takes effect, and the consolidated text of the amending Act then prints only a footnote saying so, stripping the subtitle headings with it. Act XC of 2023 as served here therefore contains neither section 350 nor section 351, the two provisions that repealed the statute it replaced; Act LXXXIV of 2024 as served here contains neither section 135, which removed the 500,000 EUR property option from the guest investor programme, nor the subtitle that would say which commencement date applied to it. **For what was enacted, and for when, read the Magyar Kozlony issue.** It also cannot be cited for anything kept outside the statute book, and the 2023 immigration Act pushes a great deal out there: the government decree naming which nationalities may hold a guest worker permit or a National Card, the ministerial communication fixing the annual permit number under sections 28(4) and 30(4), the communication listing excluded occupations, the communication fixing the EU Blue Card salary under section 48(7) of Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.), and the registers of preferential employers and qualified temporary-work agencies. Nor is it the place to read a figure a statute re-indexes: section 25(3) of Act CXXX of 2019 prints a health service contribution of 7,710 forints set in 2020 and in the same breath provides that the rate in force is published each year by the National Tax and Customs Administration on its own website.
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«A harmadik országbeli állampolgárnak legalább öt évig a 16\. § (3) bekezdés a) pontjában foglaltak teljesítéséhez olyan ingatlanalap által kibocsátott befektetési jegyet kell közvetlenül jegyeznie és azzal folyamatosan rendelkeznie, amely ingatlanalapnak a) nettó eszközértéke legalább 40%-át Magyarországon megvalósuló, lakás funkciójú ingatlanba történő befektetések teszik ki, és b) ingatlan-alapkezelője a védelmi és biztonsági célú beszerzésekről szóló [2016\. évi XXX. törvény (a továbbiakban: Vbt.)](https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2016-30-00-00) szerinti minősített piaci szereplők jegyzékén szerepel.»Our translation - not official
The third-country national must, for at least five years, directly subscribe and continuously hold investment units issued by a real-estate fund a) at least 40 per cent of whose net asset value consists of investments in residential-function property realised in Hungary, and b) whose real-estate fund manager appears on the register of qualified market participants under Act XXX of 2016 on defence and security procurement (hereinafter: Vbt.).
Known to be out of date. The National Legislation Database dates this time-state 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 12. 31., which on its own definition in section 1 of Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) means the text changes on 1 January 2027. The instrument that changes it was not read.
The holding period, the fund's composition and a security clearance for the fund manager, none of which appears in the headline figure of 250,000 EUR.
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The Hungarian state's own electronic collection of legislation, operated for the Minister of Justice by Magyar Kozlony Lap- es Konyvkiado Kft. under a public service contract, and the only place a consolidated Hungarian statute is published at all. Section 29(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 defines it; Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) sets the duties. Section 2(1) of the decree requires every statute in force to appear in consolidated form with all of its past time-states back to 1 January 2010 and its next three; section 2(3) requires the consolidation within three working days of promulgation. **Read the host carefully: section 8(1) of the decree still names www.njt.hu and the service that answers is njt.jog.gov.hu.** The address shape is njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-00-00 for an Act, using the Act's Roman numeral converted to Arabic - Act XC of 2023 is 2023-90-00-00, Act LV of 1993 is 1993-55-00-00, Act CXVII of 1995 is 1995-117-00-00 - and njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-20-22 for a government decree, so Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.) is 2024-35-20-22. The decisive thing on every page is the line under the title: Hatalyos: 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 12. 31. By the definition of a time-state in section 1 of the decree, the closing date is the day before the text changes, so a page with a closing date is telling the reader that the law will be different on the day after it, and Nem ismert means no change is yet scheduled. Footnotes at the foot of the text name, for every amended paragraph, the Act or decree that put the current words there, which is the only machine-readable amendment history in the corpus.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Nothing published here is the authentic text and Hungarian law says so in terms.** Section 25(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 confers authenticity on the Magyar Kozlony and section 25(2) forbids a consolidated text from being published in the Magyar Kozlony at all, so the authentic text and the current text are in two different places by design and the consolidation is never the authentic one. Neither Act CXXX of 2010 nor Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) uses the word hiteles of this database anywhere. The practical limitation that follows is narrower than it sounds and bites hard in one place: **an amending provision disappears from here once it has done its work.** Section 12(2) of Act CXXX of 2010 makes an amending provision lose force the day after it takes effect, and the consolidated text of the amending Act then prints only a footnote saying so, stripping the subtitle headings with it. Act XC of 2023 as served here therefore contains neither section 350 nor section 351, the two provisions that repealed the statute it replaced; Act LXXXIV of 2024 as served here contains neither section 135, which removed the 500,000 EUR property option from the guest investor programme, nor the subtitle that would say which commencement date applied to it. **For what was enacted, and for when, read the Magyar Kozlony issue.** It also cannot be cited for anything kept outside the statute book, and the 2023 immigration Act pushes a great deal out there: the government decree naming which nationalities may hold a guest worker permit or a National Card, the ministerial communication fixing the annual permit number under sections 28(4) and 30(4), the communication listing excluded occupations, the communication fixing the EU Blue Card salary under section 48(7) of Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.), and the registers of preferential employers and qualified temporary-work agencies. Nor is it the place to read a figure a statute re-indexes: section 25(3) of Act CXXX of 2019 prints a health service contribution of 7,710 forints set in 2020 and in the same breath provides that the rate in force is published each year by the National Tax and Customs Administration on its own website.
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«A vendégbefektetői tartózkodási engedély (6) bekezdés szerinti meghosszabbítása – a 19\. § (3) bekezdésében foglaltak kivételével a törvényben meghatározott egyéb feltételek teljesítése esetén – akkor engedélyezhető, ha a) a harmadik országbeli állampolgár a 16\. § (3) bekezdés a) pontja szerinti befektetéssel a kérelem benyújtásának időpontjában rendelkezik, vagy b) a vendégbefektetői tartózkodási engedély kiadásának alapját a 16\. § (3) bekezdés b) pontja szerinti befektetés képezte.»Our translation - not official
The extension of the guest investor residence permit under paragraph (6) may be authorised - with the exception of section 19(3) and where the other conditions laid down in the Act are met - if a) the third-country national holds the investment under section 16(3)(a) at the time the application is submitted, or b) the guest investor residence permit was based on the investment under section 16(3)(b).
Known to be out of date. The National Legislation Database dates this time-state 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 12. 31., which on its own definition in section 1 of Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) means the text changes on 1 January 2027. The instrument that changes it was not read.
The only surviving reference to the property option. Point (b) now points at the donation in the text in force, and at the property purchase in the text the existing permits were issued under.
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The Hungarian state's own electronic collection of legislation, operated for the Minister of Justice by Magyar Kozlony Lap- es Konyvkiado Kft. under a public service contract, and the only place a consolidated Hungarian statute is published at all. Section 29(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 defines it; Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) sets the duties. Section 2(1) of the decree requires every statute in force to appear in consolidated form with all of its past time-states back to 1 January 2010 and its next three; section 2(3) requires the consolidation within three working days of promulgation. **Read the host carefully: section 8(1) of the decree still names www.njt.hu and the service that answers is njt.jog.gov.hu.** The address shape is njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-00-00 for an Act, using the Act's Roman numeral converted to Arabic - Act XC of 2023 is 2023-90-00-00, Act LV of 1993 is 1993-55-00-00, Act CXVII of 1995 is 1995-117-00-00 - and njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-20-22 for a government decree, so Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.) is 2024-35-20-22. The decisive thing on every page is the line under the title: Hatalyos: 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 12. 31. By the definition of a time-state in section 1 of the decree, the closing date is the day before the text changes, so a page with a closing date is telling the reader that the law will be different on the day after it, and Nem ismert means no change is yet scheduled. Footnotes at the foot of the text name, for every amended paragraph, the Act or decree that put the current words there, which is the only machine-readable amendment history in the corpus.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Nothing published here is the authentic text and Hungarian law says so in terms.** Section 25(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 confers authenticity on the Magyar Kozlony and section 25(2) forbids a consolidated text from being published in the Magyar Kozlony at all, so the authentic text and the current text are in two different places by design and the consolidation is never the authentic one. Neither Act CXXX of 2010 nor Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) uses the word hiteles of this database anywhere. The practical limitation that follows is narrower than it sounds and bites hard in one place: **an amending provision disappears from here once it has done its work.** Section 12(2) of Act CXXX of 2010 makes an amending provision lose force the day after it takes effect, and the consolidated text of the amending Act then prints only a footnote saying so, stripping the subtitle headings with it. Act XC of 2023 as served here therefore contains neither section 350 nor section 351, the two provisions that repealed the statute it replaced; Act LXXXIV of 2024 as served here contains neither section 135, which removed the 500,000 EUR property option from the guest investor programme, nor the subtitle that would say which commencement date applied to it. **For what was enacted, and for when, read the Magyar Kozlony issue.** It also cannot be cited for anything kept outside the statute book, and the 2023 immigration Act pushes a great deal out there: the government decree naming which nationalities may hold a guest worker permit or a National Card, the ministerial communication fixing the annual permit number under sections 28(4) and 30(4), the communication listing excluded occupations, the communication fixing the EU Blue Card salary under section 48(7) of Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.), and the registers of preferential employers and qualified temporary-work agencies. Nor is it the place to read a figure a statute re-indexes: section 25(3) of Act CXXX of 2019 prints a health service contribution of 7,710 forints set in 2020 and in the same breath provides that the rate in force is published each year by the National Tax and Customs Administration on its own website.
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Practical notes
Every English-language guide to this programme still lists three investment options and a two-year visa. Both were true of the Act as the Parliament passed it on 12 December 2023 and neither is true of the text in force, which has been consolidated to 1 October 2026.
Which of two dates the removal took effect on could not be established from the consolidated text. Act LXXXIV of 2024 commences on 30 December 2024 under its section 41(1), with a list of exceptions commencing on 1 January 2025 under section 41(2); the list is written in terms of subtitles and sections, and the National Legislation Database strips the subtitles of an amending Act once its provisions are spent, so section 135 could not be located within one.
Nothing was read about which real-estate funds are actually registered, which managers are on the qualified market participants register, or what a unit costs in practice. Those are kept by the Magyar Nemzeti Bank and by the Constitution Protection Office respectively.
- consolidates2023. évi XC. törvény a harmadik országbeli állampolgárok beutazására és tartózkodására vonatkozó általános szabályokról
Nemzeti Jogszabalytar, Igazsagugyi Miniszterium · consolidated to 2026-10-01
Known to be out of date. The National Legislation Database dates this time-state 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 12. 31., which on its own definition in section 1 of Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) means the text changes on 1 January 2027. The instrument that changes it was not read.
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The Hungarian state's own electronic collection of legislation, operated for the Minister of Justice by Magyar Kozlony Lap- es Konyvkiado Kft. under a public service contract, and the only place a consolidated Hungarian statute is published at all. Section 29(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 defines it; Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) sets the duties. Section 2(1) of the decree requires every statute in force to appear in consolidated form with all of its past time-states back to 1 January 2010 and its next three; section 2(3) requires the consolidation within three working days of promulgation. **Read the host carefully: section 8(1) of the decree still names www.njt.hu and the service that answers is njt.jog.gov.hu.** The address shape is njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-00-00 for an Act, using the Act's Roman numeral converted to Arabic - Act XC of 2023 is 2023-90-00-00, Act LV of 1993 is 1993-55-00-00, Act CXVII of 1995 is 1995-117-00-00 - and njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-20-22 for a government decree, so Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.) is 2024-35-20-22. The decisive thing on every page is the line under the title: Hatalyos: 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 12. 31. By the definition of a time-state in section 1 of the decree, the closing date is the day before the text changes, so a page with a closing date is telling the reader that the law will be different on the day after it, and Nem ismert means no change is yet scheduled. Footnotes at the foot of the text name, for every amended paragraph, the Act or decree that put the current words there, which is the only machine-readable amendment history in the corpus.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Nothing published here is the authentic text and Hungarian law says so in terms.** Section 25(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 confers authenticity on the Magyar Kozlony and section 25(2) forbids a consolidated text from being published in the Magyar Kozlony at all, so the authentic text and the current text are in two different places by design and the consolidation is never the authentic one. Neither Act CXXX of 2010 nor Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) uses the word hiteles of this database anywhere. The practical limitation that follows is narrower than it sounds and bites hard in one place: **an amending provision disappears from here once it has done its work.** Section 12(2) of Act CXXX of 2010 makes an amending provision lose force the day after it takes effect, and the consolidated text of the amending Act then prints only a footnote saying so, stripping the subtitle headings with it. Act XC of 2023 as served here therefore contains neither section 350 nor section 351, the two provisions that repealed the statute it replaced; Act LXXXIV of 2024 as served here contains neither section 135, which removed the 500,000 EUR property option from the guest investor programme, nor the subtitle that would say which commencement date applied to it. **For what was enacted, and for when, read the Magyar Kozlony issue.** It also cannot be cited for anything kept outside the statute book, and the 2023 immigration Act pushes a great deal out there: the government decree naming which nationalities may hold a guest worker permit or a National Card, the ministerial communication fixing the annual permit number under sections 28(4) and 30(4), the communication listing excluded occupations, the communication fixing the EU Blue Card salary under section 48(7) of Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.), and the registers of preferential employers and qualified temporary-work agencies. Nor is it the place to read a figure a statute re-indexes: section 25(3) of Act CXXX of 2019 prints a health service contribution of 7,710 forints set in 2020 and in the same breath provides that the rate in force is published each year by the National Tax and Customs Administration on its own website.
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- issuesMagyar Kozlony 2023. evi 185. szam, 2023. evi XC. torveny a kihirdetett szoveg szerint
Magyar Kozlony, Magyar Kozlony Lap- es Konyvkiado Kft.
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The official journal of Hungary, and the only authentic text of Hungarian legislation. Section 25(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 provides that it is issued by publication as an electronic document on the government portal and that its text shall be regarded as authentic; section 25/A(1) has the responsible editor sign each issue with a qualified electronic signature and a time stamp, and section 25/A(4) forbids a published issue from being removed from the portal. Section 26(1) requires every statute except a local government decree to be promulgated in it. An issue is a single PDF containing everything promulgated that day: Magyar Kozlony 2023. evi 185. szam of 21 December 2023 runs to 1.7 million characters and carries the twelfth amendment of the Fundamental Law, Act XC of 2023 on the entry and residence of third-country nationals across pages 10447 to 10578, and twenty-odd other Acts. Issues are downloaded from magyarkozlony.hu through an opaque per-document path ending in /letoltes rather than by a readable number, so the address has to be found from the issue listing and cannot be constructed.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: **It is the text as enacted and never the text in force.** Section 25(2) of Act CXXX of 2010 forbids a consolidated text from being published here at all, so an issue is evidence of what a provision said on the day it was promulgated and of nothing after that. The guest investor programme is the case that shows why both publishers are needed: this journal carries the 500,000 EUR residential property option and the two-year visa that the Parliament passed, and both were replaced within a year. **Read it for repeals, commencement rules and original wording; read the National Legislation Database for what the law says today.** It is also an awkward document to quote from: a single issue is a very long PDF of many unrelated Acts, so a short quotation is likely to occur in more than one of them, and the page furniture of the running head interrupts sentences at every page break. It cannot be cited for anything not promulgated in it - local government decrees go elsewhere under section 26(1), and ministerial communications of the kind the 2023 immigration Act relies on for the annual permit number and the excluded occupations are not statutes at all.
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- consolidates2024. évi LXXXIV. törvény a kritikus szervezetek ellenálló képességéről
Nemzeti Jogszabalytar, Igazsagugyi Miniszterium · consolidated to 2026-09-27
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The Hungarian state's own electronic collection of legislation, operated for the Minister of Justice by Magyar Kozlony Lap- es Konyvkiado Kft. under a public service contract, and the only place a consolidated Hungarian statute is published at all. Section 29(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 defines it; Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) sets the duties. Section 2(1) of the decree requires every statute in force to appear in consolidated form with all of its past time-states back to 1 January 2010 and its next three; section 2(3) requires the consolidation within three working days of promulgation. **Read the host carefully: section 8(1) of the decree still names www.njt.hu and the service that answers is njt.jog.gov.hu.** The address shape is njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-00-00 for an Act, using the Act's Roman numeral converted to Arabic - Act XC of 2023 is 2023-90-00-00, Act LV of 1993 is 1993-55-00-00, Act CXVII of 1995 is 1995-117-00-00 - and njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/{YEAR}-{NUMBER}-20-22 for a government decree, so Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.) is 2024-35-20-22. The decisive thing on every page is the line under the title: Hatalyos: 2026. 10. 01. - 2026. 12. 31. By the definition of a time-state in section 1 of the decree, the closing date is the day before the text changes, so a page with a closing date is telling the reader that the law will be different on the day after it, and Nem ismert means no change is yet scheduled. Footnotes at the foot of the text name, for every amended paragraph, the Act or decree that put the current words there, which is the only machine-readable amendment history in the corpus.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Nothing published here is the authentic text and Hungarian law says so in terms.** Section 25(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 confers authenticity on the Magyar Kozlony and section 25(2) forbids a consolidated text from being published in the Magyar Kozlony at all, so the authentic text and the current text are in two different places by design and the consolidation is never the authentic one. Neither Act CXXX of 2010 nor Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) uses the word hiteles of this database anywhere. The practical limitation that follows is narrower than it sounds and bites hard in one place: **an amending provision disappears from here once it has done its work.** Section 12(2) of Act CXXX of 2010 makes an amending provision lose force the day after it takes effect, and the consolidated text of the amending Act then prints only a footnote saying so, stripping the subtitle headings with it. Act XC of 2023 as served here therefore contains neither section 350 nor section 351, the two provisions that repealed the statute it replaced; Act LXXXIV of 2024 as served here contains neither section 135, which removed the 500,000 EUR property option from the guest investor programme, nor the subtitle that would say which commencement date applied to it. **For what was enacted, and for when, read the Magyar Kozlony issue.** It also cannot be cited for anything kept outside the statute book, and the 2023 immigration Act pushes a great deal out there: the government decree naming which nationalities may hold a guest worker permit or a National Card, the ministerial communication fixing the annual permit number under sections 28(4) and 30(4), the communication listing excluded occupations, the communication fixing the EU Blue Card salary under section 48(7) of Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.), and the registers of preferential employers and qualified temporary-work agencies. Nor is it the place to read a figure a statute re-indexes: section 25(3) of Act CXXX of 2019 prints a health service contribution of 7,710 forints set in 2020 and in the same breath provides that the rate in force is published each year by the National Tax and Customs Administration on its own website.
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