Bilateral additional visa-free stay — Japan

– Japan (90 days)

If you are a national of one of the following third countries, you are entitled to stay in Hungary for an additional period of 30-days or 90-days after exhausting your 90-day visa-free stay in the Schengen area or after the expiry of your residence permit issued by any Europen Union Member State or a Schengen State, provided that you comply with the detailed rules of your previous stay as set out in this information notice.

Please note that you are entitled for the additional 30-days or 90-days stay in Hungary under the bilateral agreement: – if at the time of your entry to Hungary you have not yet exhausted your 90 days visa-free stay in the Schengen area within a period of six months from the date of your first entry into the Schengen area; – with the restriction of travelling to another Schengen Member State during your stay in Hungary on the basis of the bilateral agreement; – with the obligation to leave the Schengen area directly from the territory of Hungary (avoiding any transit in the European Union or in the Schengen area) on the last day of the 30-days or 90-days under the bilateral agreement.

You are kindly informed that it is not necessary to leave the Schengen area in advance to start the additional 30-days or 90-days long stay in Hungary based on the bilateral agreement.

If you have stayed visa-free in the Schengen area for 90 days and have already left the Schengen area but your country has a bilateral agreement with Hungary, you are allowed to enter to Hungary for another 30-days or 90-days based on the bilateral agreement. In this case, the entry requirement is that you enter the Schengen area at Hungary’s external border, stay only in Hungary during this period (you may not enter another Schengen State) and leave the Schengen area directly from Hungary.

I would also like to draw your attention to the fact that you are only entitled to the additional 30-days or 90-days long stay in Hungary based on a bilateral agreement if your previous stay was based on the right of visa-free stay or if you have been staying in the Schengen area with a residence permit and your stay did not end due to the withdrawal of your residence permit.

Please also note that the bilateral agreement may grant the additional stay immediately after the visa-free stay in the Schengen area. Thus the benefit under the bilateral agreements shall not be cumulated if another Member State of the European Union or another Schengen State has a bilateral agreement with your country. Therefor you may not benefit from the bilateral agreements of more Member States in order to stay for an even longer period without a residence permit in the European Union or in the Schengen area.

As the primary purpose of the additional stay under the bilateral conventions is to increase cultural relations between our countries, the additional 30-days or 90-days period under the bilateral agreement shall not be used for activities that can only be fullfilled with possession of a residence permit, such as: study, work, gainful employment, etc.