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Permanent residence card — third-country family member of EEA national

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

The right derives from the EEA national: permanent residence status is granted to a third-country national family member of an EEA national who has resided legally and continuously in Hungary for five years, to a person who has retained the right of residence with regard to an EEA national and has done the same, and to a child born in Hungary to a parent who holds the right of permanent residence.

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Limits of the record
  • The page does not define which relationships count as a family member, nor the conditions under which the right of residence is retained.
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    Permanent residence status shall be granted to ·       a third-country national family member of an EEA national who has resided legally and continuously in the territory of Hungary for five years; ·       a person who has retained right of residence with regard to an EEA national and has resided legally and continuously in the territory of Hungary for five years; ·      a child born in the territory of Hungary of a parent who has the right of permanent residence.

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?

Applications for a permanent residence card for third-country national family members can be 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; the requirements are the completed form, a facial photograph taken not more than three months earlier, the mandatory enclosures and payment of the procedural fee.

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Limits of the record
  • Outside the cited range: an electronic application also requires appearing before the competent regional directorate within 15 days of the confirmation of receipt to verify identity, take biometric data and a specimen signature and have documents recognised (97e1e570dbdbd36b.txt[12211:12619]).
  • Outside the cited range: the application must be made before the residence card expires, otherwise the applicant must prove holding the right of permanent residence (97e1e570dbdbd36b.txt[13805:14248]).
  • Entry formalities are not described on this page.
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    Requirements: the completed form, facial photograph taken not more than three months prior to date, and the mandatory enclosures, payment of the procedural fee. Please note that applications for a permanent residence card for third-country national family members can 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.
  • No rights beyond the right of permanent residence are described; a child born in Hungary to a parent with that right is covered by the eligibility block cited for R1.
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    Where an EEA national has acquired the right of permanent residence under either of the preferential terms enumerated below, 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?

A third-country national family member of an EEA national who has resided legally and continuously in Hungary for five years is granted permanent residence status. Continuity runs from the day the application for a residence card as a third-country national family member of an EEA national is submitted; 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: the card is valid for 10 years and is renewed automatically every ten years by the competent regional directorate without examining the conditions (97e1e570dbdbd36b.txt[18388:18674]).
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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 of submission of the application for a residence card of a third-country national family member of an EEA national. 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 a family member of an EEA national abandons to exercise his/her right of residence in the territory of Hungary, it is considered as discontinuity of residence. If a third-country national family member of 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 ·       a third-country national family member of an EEA national who has resided legally and continuously in the territory of Hungary for five years; ·       a person who has retained right of residence with regard to an EEA national and has resided legally and continuously in the territory of Hungary for five years; ·      a child born in the territory of Hungary of a parent who has the right of permanent residence.

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

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