Hungary Guest Investor Programme

1. Residence permit120 months
2. Renew120 months at a time
3. Permanent residencyafter 3 years
4. Citizenshipafter 8 years

• Permanent residency 3 years
• Citizenship 8 years
• Dual citizenship allowed
• Language required for citizenship

Country

Hungary

Program

Hungary Guest Investor Programme

Local name

Vendégbefektetői tartózkodási engedély

Type

Golden visa

Status

Active

Initial duration

120 months

Max duration

240 months

Renewable

Yes (120 mo)

Ten-year residence permit for a third-country national whose stay is in Hungary's economic interest because of an investment made in Hungary. The qualifying routes are at least EUR 250,000 in shares of a real-estate fund registered with the National Bank of Hungary, or a EUR 1,000,000 donation to a higher-education institution maintained by a public-trust foundation. The permit can be extended once, by up to another ten years.

Tax regime

Worldwide

Tax rate

15.0%

Regime name

Flat 15% personal income tax

Foreign income taxed

Yes

Capital gains taxed

Yes

Method

online, in person

Processing time

Up to 21 days

Apply from abroad

No

The residence permit is filed only in Hungary, on Enter Hungary or in person at the regional directorate, within 30 days of the first lawful entry. Visa-required nationals first obtain a guest-investor visa, valid for up to six months, at a Hungarian consulate. There is no minimum stay on this permit, and an extension does not test whether the holder spent 90 days in Hungary in any 180-day period. Procedural administration is 21 days. That clock excludes the time until the investment is proved and any time spent supplying missing documents. The in-person permit fee is HUF 39,000. Enter Hungary and an extension cost HUF 26,000 each. The guest-investor visa costs EUR 110, and an appeal lodged at a mission costs EUR 160. An appeal in Hungary costs HUF 47,000. The stored dollar fees are the HUF 39,000 in-person permit fee. At the ECB reference rates of 8 October 2026, 366.25 forints and 1.1186 dollars per euro, HUF 39,000 is about $119, HUF 26,000 is about $79, and EUR 110 is about $123. The euro investment amounts were left at the earlier dollar conversions: EUR 250,000 is about $279,650 and EUR 1,000,000 is about $1,118,600 at that rate, within 10% of the stored figures. A direct purchase of Hungarian residential property is not a qualifying investment. On 1 September 2024 the statute still listed an ownership interest of at least EUR 500,000 in a residential property in Hungary. Act LXXXIV of 2024 rewrote that list and repealed the property subsection. Those provisions entered into force on 30 December 2024. The current Act and the immigration factsheet list only the fund and the donation. Family members use the family-reunification permit. For a guest-investor sponsor it is issued for up to ten years and may be extended by up to ten years, and it cannot outlast the sponsor's permit or the family member's passport. The statute's family members are the spouse, including a registered partner, and minor children. A dependent parent can also qualify. There is no rule that children may be students through 26, and no rule that a parent must be 65. The holder and the family member may work in Hungary without a separate work permit, including as an employee, as a self-employed person, or as chief executive. A national residence card is possible after three years of uninterrupted lawful residence. This permit is not on the list of permits that block that card. The applicant still needs housing, subsistence, health cover, a clean criminal-record certificate, and the Hungarian cultural-knowledge exam, and the stay must be in Hungary's interest. Leaving Hungary for more than six months can lead to withdrawal of the card. The permit's lack of a minimum stay does not itself satisfy the three-year residence test. Ordinary naturalization then requires eight years of continuous residence, a registered address, and permanent residence. The citizenship condition is an examination in Hungarian on constitutional fundamentals. No CEFR level is set. The permit application does not require proof of subsistence or health insurance. The guest-investor visa does. No fixed subsistence amount is published. Holding the permit does not by itself make the holder a Hungarian tax resident or a member of the public health system. A resident is taxed at 15% on worldwide income. A non-resident is taxed only on Hungarian-source income.

• Guest Self-Employment Residence Permitdigital nomad visa

1. Oct 10, 2026
   • Official page https://guestinvestor.gov.hu/ https://oif.gov.hu/factsheets/residence-permit-for-guest-investor
   • Application fee (USD) none 119
   • Investment options updated

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