What happens after the request: registration, family handling, major support and rights where officially stated?
For an applicant seeking temporary protection, the request is considered submitted after personal data are verified and recorded and biometrics taken. Until the plastic beneficiary card arrives, the humanitarian residence document issued on application proves identity, the right to reside in Hungary, the applicant’s status and accommodation address; that document alone does not authorise travel abroad. If it expires before the card arrives, the applicant must apply in person for its extension. An applicant may work in Hungary without a work permit, including through a temporary-work agency. If not covered by social security, the applicant is entitled to the listed free healthcare services, with emergency and specified vulnerable-person exceptions for specialist or hospital care. Minor applicants can enter public education on the same terms as Hungarian citizens, with free kindergarten or school education at compulsory ages. The county government offices’ protection committees arrange accommodation and care, with accommodation provided for people in need. The applicant is not entitled to a regular subsistence allowance until effective recognition. These are applicant-stage rights and do not establish that beneficiary status has already been granted.
See recorded sources
Limits of the record- The separate eligibility paragraph in this English factsheet prints 24 February 2024 for a non-Ukrainian group but 2022 for Ukrainian nationals; official Hungarian OIF guidance and EU Decision 2022/382 use 24 February 2022. This R4 answer does not determine eligibility; the two R2 heads require a separate corrected-source capture.
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on to
Ukrainian nationals
(i.e., recognise them as beneficiaries of
temporary protection)
who were residing
in Ukraine before 24 February 2022
; stateless
persons
or non-Ukrainian third-country nationals
who were granted international protection
or the same level of national protection
in Ukraine before 24 February
2024; and
family members of the above
.
An
application
for recognition as a beneficiary of temporary
protection shall be considered ‘
submitted
’
following verification and recording of the
applicant’s personal data, as well as taking his/her biometric data.
1. Documents
Up until receipt of
the
(plastic card)
document
attesting
having beneficiary of temporary protection status, the document (i.e.,
residence permit granted on humanitarian grounds to persons applying for asylum
or Form of data for the ex officio issuance or extension of a residence permit
granted on humanitarian grounds)
issued
upon submission of the application
shall
prove
the applicant’s personal identification data, right of residence in
Hungary, his/her status, as well as the address of his/her accommodation in Hungary
.
When attending to official
administrative matters, as well as when availing of services and care/benefits
to which the person applying for recognition as a beneficiary of temporary
protection is entitled, the applicant must take with him/her his/her residence
document and an official certificate stating the address of his/her
accommodation in Hungary and present it before the acting authority or service
provider concerned.
On its own, the applicant’s residence document does
not entitle its holder to travel abroad.
With regard to the applicant’s stay in a country
within the Schengen area other than Hungary, and thus his/her travel to a
country within the Schengen area other than Hungary, please be advised to
contact the aliens policing/border police authority of the foreign country of
destination, as the asylum authority of Hungary does not have jurisdiction in
this matter
.
If the period of validity of the residence document
issued upon the time of application submission expires before the delivery of
the (plastic card) document certifying beneficiary of temporary protection
status, the applicant is required to appear in person before the authority and
apply for the extension of the period of validity.
The applicant is required to report change of his/her
place of accommodation in Hungary to the asylum authority. Subject to the Act
on the Registration of Personal Data and Residential Addresses of Citizens,
persons
applying for recognition as a beneficiary of temporary protecti
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ace of accommodation in Hungary
by presenting their residence document.
2.
Employment
Ukrainian nationals holding a biometric travel
document may undertake employment in certain shortage occupation positions
without a permit immediately after their entry into the territory of Hungary. Ukrainian
nationals holding a biometric travel document may undertake employment in non
shortage occupation positions for a period not exceeding 90 days after their
entry into the territory of Hungary, if they hold a work permit, for whose
issuance the employer submits an application at the competent government office
.
Without the obligation to have a permit, a person
applying for recognition as a beneficiary of temporary protection is entitled
to undertake a job within the territory of Hungary, including jobs undertaken
through a temporary-work agency.
(See Section 20
of Act L of 2025)
The employer is required to report employment
of a person applying for recognition as a beneficiary of temporary protection
as per provisions of Subtitle 88 of
Act XC of 2023
.)
An applicant may also undertake public employment.
3.
Health care
A person applying for recognition as a beneficiary of
temporary protection is entitled to the following health care services free of
charge, if (s)he is not covered by social security
:
·
primary care
;
·
specialised medical care or hospital care in
cases of urgent need (a person in need of special treatment, e.g.:
an unaccompanied minor, an elderly person, a disabled person, or a
pregnant woman is entitled to specialised medical care and hospital
care not only in cases of urgent need)
;
·
prenatal care, obstetric care
;
·
for persons entitled to public health care services –
medicines
;
·
oncology patient care and other types of care for
chronic patients
;
·
emergency dental care and orthodontic (i.e.
tooth-retaining) treatments
.
Place of receiving care:
competent health care
institution as per the place of accommodation of the person applying for
recognition as a beneficiary of temporary protection. (See Point a) and
b) of Section 3 (1) of Government Decree no. 196/2025 (of 8 July) and Section
44 (2) of
Government Decree
301/2007
(of 9 November
))
The person applying for recognition as a beneficiary
of temporary protection must take with him/her his/her residence document and
present it before the service provider concerned when using the listed
healthcare services.
4.
Education,
training and care of a minor person applying for recognition as a beneficiary
of temporary
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protection
From the date of submission of the application for
recognition as beneficiary of temporary protection, the minor is entitled to
participate in public education
under the same conditions as Hungarian
citizens
and is also subject to compulsory schooling. Public education
obliged children of kindergarten age (from the age of 3) and children of
compulsory school age may attend
free kindergarten and school education
,
as well as receive kindergarten and school public education services at the
competent public education establishment as per their place of accommodation.
In case the person
applying for recognition as a beneficiary of temporary protection is
responsible for provision of care to a child or a student, at his or her
request, the child or student
is
entitled to receive
child meals provided by the institutions in accordance
with Section 21/A of
Act XXXI of 1997
on the Protection of Children and Administration of Guardianship
(hereinafter referred to as Act o
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on may not be claimed retrospectively.
Accommodation
The committees on protection of the county government
offices are responsible for the tasks of providing accommodation and care to
persons applying for recognition as beneficiary of temporary protection or
beneficiaries of temporary protection. Thus, the protection administration
systems provide accommodation to those in need.
Key information on
accommodation is available via the following Government website:
https://safeinhungary.gov.hu/hu
Please note that, under the
current applicable legislation, a person who applies for recognition as a
beneficiary of temporary protection is not entitled to receive regular
subsistence allowance until his/her effective recognition.
