Three Years and Out, and the Permit Dies on the Sixth Day After Your Employer Reports That the Job Ended - With No Decision and No Hearing
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Brazil on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
172 exceptions recorded across 63 countries · none match Brazil to Hungary · Residency through work
The 2023 Act renamed the ordinary foreign worker a vendegmunkas, a guest worker, and the word is doing legal work rather than rhetorical. Two permits carry it. The residence permit for employment under section 28 is the general one: two years, extendable once by one year, and section 28(6) forbids extension past three years from first issue. The guest worker residence permit under section 30 has the same arithmetic and a narrower gate - the employer must be a registered preferential employer or qualified temporary-work agency, the applicant must be a national of a third country named in a government decree, and the occupation must not be one the minister has excluded in a communication. Both are capped collectively by a permit number the minister for employment policy fixes each year. What happens at the end of the job is the part nothing else in this corpus matches. Section 33(1) makes the employment relationship with the named employer the legal basis of the stay; section 33(2) provides that where it ends, no individual immigration procedure takes place at all and the permit becomes invalid on the sixth day after the employer reports it; and section 33(3) requires the applicant, at the time of applying, to sign an undertaking to leave the territory of the Union and the other Schengen states voluntarily within eight days of that invalidity, naming the country they will go to. Section 29(1) puts the duty to see them out on the employer, and section 29(2) fines an employer who fails 5,000,000 forint. Guest workers cannot bring family (section 71(4)), cannot obtain a national residence card (sections 28(10) and 31(6)), and cannot apply inside Hungary for a permit on any other ground either during the permit or after it expires.
At a glance
- Longest stay on a work permit
- 3 years from first issue
Section 28(6) of Act XC of 2023 for the residence permit for employment and section 31(2) for the guest worker residence permit. Both read two years then at most one more.
- What happens when the job ends
- The permit is invalid from the 6th day after the employer reports it, with no individual procedure
Section 33(2) of Act XC of 2023, which states in terms that there is no place for an individual immigration procedure on withdrawal.
- Undertaking signed at application
- To leave the Union and the other Schengen states within 8 days, naming the destination
Section 33(3) of Act XC of 2023. It is an annex to the application, not a consequence imposed later.
- Fine on an employer who does not see the worker out
- 5,000,000 HUF
Sections 29(2) and 32(2) of Act XC of 2023, with a defence of having acted as could generally be expected in the situation.
- Days the employer has
- Departure by the 6th day after the employment ends
Sections 29(1) and 32(1) of Act XC of 2023.
- Annual cap
- A permit number fixed each year by the minister for employment policy
Sections 28(4) and 30(4) of Act XC of 2023. The number is set in a ministerial determination, which was not read, so no figure is stated here.
- Family
- None: section 71(4)(b) to (e) of Act XC of 2023 excludes every guest worker permit from being a sponsor
The exception in section 71(5) covers only a child born in Hungary while the permit is in force.
- Counts towards settlement
- No: sections 28(10) and 31(6) of Act XC of 2023 bar the national residence card outright
Section 83(5) repeats the bar from the settlement side, listing thirteen permit types that cannot lead to it.
- Changing employer
- By applying to extend the permit, not by notifying
Sections 28(11) and 31(8) of Act XC of 2023. A change of employer, of job or of workplace triggers an extension application.
Requirements
- A job with a named Hungarian employer, and for the guest worker permit an employer on the preferential or qualified-agency register
- For the guest worker permit, nationality of a third country named in a government decree, and an occupation the minister has not excluded
- A signed undertaking to leave the Union and the Schengen states within eight days if the job ends
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.
Section 25(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 makes Magyar Kozlony the official journal of Hungary, published as an electronic document on the government portal, and provides that its text shall be regarded as authentic. Section 25(2) then provides that a consolidated text - a text of a statute incorporating its amended and repealed provisions - may not be published in Magyar Kozlony at all. The consolidated text lives instead in the Nemzeti Jogszabalytar, which section 29(1) of the same Act describes as an electronic collection of legislation operating as an electronic public service, free to anyone, providing a surface for publishing both the promulgated texts and the consolidated texts by time-state. Nothing in either instrument calls it authentic. Government Decree No 338/2011. (XII. 29.) fills in the obligations: section 2(1) requires every statute in force to be published there in consolidated form with its past time-states back to 1 January 2010 and its next three; section 2(3) requires publication within three working days of promulgation. So the consolidation is a legal duty discharged on a statutory deadline by the state's own publisher, and it is still not the authentic text, because section 25(1) reserves that word for a journal that section 25(2) forbids from carrying a consolidation. The decree also carries a smaller discrepancy worth knowing: section 8(1) says the database operates on the www.njt.hu website, and the site that answers today is njt.jog.gov.hu.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Brazil
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
«(5) A foglalkoztatási célú tartózkodási engedély legfeljebb két év határozott időtartamú tartózkodásra jogosít Magyarország területén. (6) A foglalkoztatási célú tartózkodási engedély legfeljebb egy évvel hosszabbítható meg azzal, hogy a foglalkoztatási célú tartózkodási engedély az e törvény szerinti első kiadásától számított három évet meghaladó időtartamra nem hosszabbítható meg.»Our translation - not official
(5) The residence permit for employment entitles the holder to stay in the territory of Hungary for a fixed term of at most two years. (6) The residence permit for employment may be extended by at most one year, provided that it may not be extended beyond a period of three years from its first issue under this Act.
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.
Two years and one more, and the three-year ceiling runs from the first issue rather than from the current permit.
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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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«33. § (1) A vendégmunkás magyarországi tartózkodásának jogalapja a vendégmunkás foglalkoztatásra irányuló jogviszonyának fennállása a tartózkodási engedélyben nevesített foglalkoztatónál. (2) Ha a vendégmunkás foglalkoztatása a kiadott tartózkodási engedély érvényességi idején belül megszűnik, az e Fejezet szerinti tartózkodási engedély visszavonásával kapcsolatban egyedi idegenrendészeti hatósági eljárás lefolytatásának nincs helye, a tartózkodási engedély a foglalkoztatónak a munkaviszony megszűnéséről szóló bejelentése időpontjától számított 6. naptól érvénytelen. (3) Az e Fejezet szerinti tartózkodási engedély iránti kérelemhez mellékelni kell a vendégmunkás nyilatkozatát arról, hogy a tartózkodási engedély (2) bekezdés szerinti érvénytelensége esetén az érvénytelenné válás napját követő 8 napon belül az Európai Unió tagállamai és más schengeni államok területéről önkéntesen távozik a távozás célországát megjelölve.»Our translation - not official
Section 33 (1) The legal basis of a guest worker's stay in Hungary is the existence of the guest worker's employment relationship with the employer named in the residence permit. (2) If the guest worker's employment ends within the validity of the residence permit issued, there is no place for an individual immigration authority procedure in connection with the withdrawal of the residence permit under this Chapter; the residence permit is invalid from the 6th day counted from the date of the employer's report of the termination of the employment relationship. (3) The application for a residence permit under this Chapter shall be accompanied by the guest worker's declaration that, in the event of the residence permit becoming invalid under paragraph (2), they will depart voluntarily from the territory of the member states of the European Union and the other Schengen states within 8 days of the day the permit becomes invalid, naming the destination country of departure.
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 whole mechanism in three paragraphs: the job is the status, the status dies by calendar rather than by decision, and the undertaking to leave was signed before any of it happened.
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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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«29. § (1) A foglalkoztató köteles gondoskodni arról, hogy foglalkoztatás céljából kiállított tartózkodási engedéllyel rendelkező vendégmunkás a munkaviszonya megszűnése vagy megszüntetése esetén Magyarország területét a munkaviszony megszűnését követő legkésőbb hatodik napon elhagyja. (2) Ha a foglalkoztató az (1) bekezdésben meghatározott kötelezettségének nem tesz eleget, az idegenrendészeti hatóság a foglalkoztatót öt millió forint összegű bírsággal sújtja. A foglalkoztató mentesül a bírság megfizetése alól, ha bizonyítja, hogy az (1) bekezdés szerinti kötelezettsége teljesítése során úgy járt el, ahogyan az az adott helyzetben általában elvárható.»Our translation - not official
Section 29 (1) The employer shall ensure that a guest worker holding a residence permit issued for the purpose of employment leaves the territory of Hungary at the latest on the sixth day following the termination or ending of their employment relationship. (2) If the employer fails to meet the obligation laid down in paragraph (1), the immigration authority shall impose on the employer a fine of five million forints. The employer is released from paying the fine if they prove that in performing their obligation under paragraph (1) they acted as could generally be expected in the situation.
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 enforcement is aimed at the employer, with one amount and no discretion about it.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
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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«30. § (1) Vendégmunkás-tartózkodási engedélyt az a vendégmunkás kaphat, a)26 akinek a tartózkodási célja, hogy foglalkoztatásra irányuló jogviszonya alapján, ellenérték fejében, más részére, illetve irányítása alatt Magyarország területén tényleges munkát végezzen, ideértve a munkaerő-kölcsönzés útján történő foglalkoztatást is, b) akinek a foglalkoztatója nyilvántartásba vett kedvezményes foglalkoztató vagy nyilvántartásba vett minősített kölcsönbeadó, c)27 aki a Kormány rendeletében meghatározott harmadik ország állampolgára, és d) akinek a munkavállalása olyan foglalkozásban történik, amelyet a foglalkoztatáspolitikáért felelős miniszter közleményében nem zár ki.»Our translation - not official
Section 30 (1) A guest worker residence permit may be granted to a guest worker a) whose purpose of stay is to perform actual work on the basis of their employment relationship, for consideration, for another or under another's direction in the territory of Hungary, including employment through temporary agency work, b) whose employer is a registered preferential employer or a registered qualified temporary-work agency, c) who is a national of a third country specified in a decree of the Government, and d) whose employment is in an occupation which the minister responsible for employment policy has not excluded in a communication.
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.
Three of the four conditions are about somebody other than the applicant: the employer's registration, the applicant's nationality as a government decree defines it, and a list of occupations kept by a minister.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
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 állampolgár nem kaphat nemzeti tartózkodási kártyát, ha a) vendég-önfoglalkoztatás célú tartózkodási engedéllyel, b) szezonális munkavállalás célú tartózkodási engedéllyel, c) beruházás megvalósítása céljából kiállított munkavállalási célú tartózkodási engedéllyel, d) foglalkoztatási célú tartózkodási engedéllyel, e) vendégmunkás-tartózkodási engedéllyel, f) tanulmányi célú tartózkodási engedéllyel (beleértve az álláskeresést és a vállalkozás indítást is), g) képzés célú tartózkodási engedéllyel, h) ideiglenes tartózkodási engedéllyel, i) gyógykezelési célú tartózkodási engedéllyel, j) Fehér Kártyával, k) kiküldetés célú tartózkodási engedéllyel, l) gyakornoki tevékenység folytatása célú tartózkodási engedéllyel, m) önkéntes tevékenység folytatása célú tartózkodási engedéllyel rendelkezik.»Our translation - not official
A third-country national may not be granted a national residence card if they hold a) a residence permit for guest self-employment, b) a residence permit for seasonal employment, c) a residence permit for employment issued for the purpose of realising an investment, d) a residence permit for employment, e) a guest worker residence permit, f) a residence permit for study (including job-seeking and starting a business), g) a residence permit for training, h) a temporary residence permit, i) a residence permit for medical treatment, j) a White Card, k) a residence permit for posting, l) a residence permit for traineeship, m) a residence permit for voluntary activity.
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.
Thirteen permit types from which settled status cannot be reached. Every work permit in the guest worker chapter is on 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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Practical notes
The EU Blue Card and the Hungarian Card are in a different chapter and are not guest worker permits. Their salary test is not in any instrument read here: section 48(7) of Government Decree No 35/2024. (II. 29.) treats livelihood as proved where the wage reaches the monthly gross figure set in a communication of the minister responsible for employment policy, and that communication was not read, so no figure is stated.
The nationality list for the guest worker residence permit, and for the National Card, is in a government decree that was not read. The Act as promulgated on 21 December 2023 named Serbian and Ukrainian citizens in its section 50; the text in force names a third country specified in a decree of the Government instead, following section 169 of Act XXIX of 2024.
The annual permit number under sections 28(4) and 30(4), the excluded occupations under sections 28(1) and 30(1)(d), and the registers of preferential employers and qualified agencies are all kept outside the statute, and none of those instruments was read.
- 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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