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Permanent residence card — EEA national after five years

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Which citizenship, status or regional agreement creates the person's right to move/reside?

The right derives from EEA nationality: permanent residence status is granted to an EEA national who has resided legally and continuously in Hungary for five years.

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Limits of the record
  • The page does not define who counts as an EEA national or name the Agreement on the European Economic Area in this sentence.
  • Early access before five years is available to EEA nationals pursuing occupational activity (6e7aa8b2b8d64047.txt[8934:10440]).
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    Permanent residence status shall be granted to: · an EEA national who has resided legally and continuously in the territory of Hungary for five years;

Under which circumstances can the person reside: worker, self-employed, student, jobseeker, self-funded person or another recognised basis?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the bases on which the person may reside.

What entry, registration or residence-document formalities remain?

The permanent residence card application requires the completed form, a facial photograph taken not more than three months earlier, the mandatory enclosures and payment of the procedural fee; it is submitted in person at the client service office of the competent regional directorate for the place of residence in Hungary and also electronically after registering on the immigration authority's platform.

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Limits of the record
  • Entry formalities are not described on this page.
  • Outside the cited range: the administrative service fee is HUF 1,500 and the regional directorate rules within 70 days (6e7aa8b2b8d64047.txt[12839:13385]).
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    Requirements: the completed form, facial photograph taken not more than three months prior to date, submitting the mandatory enclosures, and payment of the procedural fee. Please note that an application shall be submitted in person at the client service office of the competent regional directorate as per your place of residence in Hungary and also electronically upon registration on the electronic platform of the immigration authority for procedure initiation.

Which non-member-country family members can accompany or join, and what broad rights do they receive?

Where an EEA national has acquired the right of permanent residence under the preferential terms, family members holding the right of residence also have the right of permanent residence. The official source does not state which relationships count as family members.

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Limits of the record
  • The sentence covers only the preferential (early-access) terms, not the ordinary five-year route.
  • The page does not say which relationships count as family members, and does not distinguish third-country-national family members, who have their own factsheet.
  • No rights beyond the right of permanent residence are described.
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    Where an EEA national has acquired the right of permanent residence under either of the preferential terms enumerated above, his/her family members holding the right of residence shall also have the right of permanent residence.

When do permanent/long-term rights arise and what continuity, absence or retention conditions matter?

Permanent residence status is granted to an EEA national who has resided legally and continuously in Hungary for five years. Continuity runs from the day the EEA national's stay exceeding ninety days within a one-hundred-and-eighty-day period is reported; temporary absence of up to six months in a year, absence for compulsory military service and a one-time absence of up to twelve consecutive months for a material cause do not break continuity, while abandoning the right of residence counts as discontinuity and restarts the qualifying period.

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Limits of the record
  • The five-year qualifying period itself is stated in the eligibility block, cited for R1.
  • Outside the cited range: a permanent residence card issued to an EEA national is valid indefinitely, together with a valid travel document or personal identification document (6e7aa8b2b8d64047.txt[15919:16075]).
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    In the absence of evidence to the contrary, the first day of continuous residence in the territory of Hungary is the day on which the EEA national’s stay exceeding ninety days within a one-hundred-and-eighty-day period of time is reported. The following shall not be deemed as discontinuity of residence · temporary absence from the territory of Hungary not exceeding six months in a year; · absence for compulsory military service; · a one-time absence up to a maximum of twelve consecutive months due to a material cause, such as pregnancy and childbirth, serious illness, pursuit of study or vocational training, or posting. If an EEA national abandons to exercise his/her right of residence in the territory of Hungary, it is considered as discontinuity of residence. If an EEA national has abandoned to exercise his/her right of residence in the territory of Hungary, and returned to the territory of Hungary for a period of over ninety days within a one-hundred-and-eighty-day period of time the duration required for the right of permanent residence shall start over from this time.
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    Permanent residence status shall be granted to: · an EEA national who has resided legally and continuously in the territory of Hungary for five years;

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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