Change in the administration procedure of registration certificates and residence cards to be issued to third-country national family members of EEA nationals

CHANGE

 

in the administration procedure of registration certificates and residence cards to be issued to third-country national family members of EEA nationals

 

 

Budapest, 31 January 2025 

 

 

 

Dear Clients,

 

 

Please note that as of 1 February 2025, persons with the right of free movement establishing a place of domicile the first time (in case of applications for a registration certificate and a residence card of a third-country national family member of an EEA national) are subject to payment of a separate fee for the issuance and delivery by post of the official document certifying residential address (i.e., ‘lakcímkártya’). (The fee for the registration certificate (HUF 1,000) and the fee for the residence card of a third-country national family member of an EEA national (HUF 15,000), i.e., fees for the aliens policing procedure, are to be paid to the National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing in the same way and in the same amount as hitherto.)

 

Persons holding a registration certificate and a residence card are entitled to a Hungarian official document certifying residential address (i.e., ‘lakcímkártya’) under Act LXVI of 1992 on the Registration of Personal Data and Residential Addresses of Citizens; no separate application is to be submitted, persons in this category are entitled to the document by law.

 

The fee for the issuance and delivery by post of an official document certifying residential address (i.e., ‘lakcímkártya’) (together HUF 5,700) is to be paid by all persons concerned at the time of initiation of the procedure for the registration certificate or residence card. (Clients under 14 years of age are not subject to a fee for the issuance of an official document certifying residential address (i.e., ‘lakcímkártya’), they are only required to pay a fee for its delivery by post, which is HUF 2,000.) Please note that, as hitherto, the official document certifying residential address (i.e., ‘lakcímkártya’) will be sent out by the issuing authority by post.

 

The fee shall be paid by bank transfer both in case of in-person application submission (at a client service office) and in case of electronic case initiation (via the EnterHungary interface).

 

The transfer is required to be completed as follows:

 

Name (company name) of the account holder: Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister

Bank account number: 10032000-00335814-06020020

For international remittance bank account number with IBAN number: HU80 10032000-00335814-06020020

Comment field indications: name, date of birth of the applicant, the word: ’lakcímkártya’, and the EnterHungary reference number, in case of a submission via the EnterHungary interface*

Amount: HUF 5,700 (for persons over the age of 14) or HUF 2,000 (for persons under the age of 14)**

 

Please note that a separate transfer is to be completed even if more than one application (e.g., of a family) is submitted at the same time.

 

In the procedure for the issuance of a registration certificate or a residence card, proof of payment of the fee for the issuance of the official document certifying residential address (i.e., ‘lakcímkártya’) is required. In the absence of such a proof, the aliens policing authority will terminate the procedure.

 

* EH reference number: the identification number assigned to each case initiated via the EnterHungary electronic case initiation platform; the number consists of the ‘EH’ prefix which is followed by 8 digits.

 

** ONLY the amount of HUF 5,700 or 2,000 is to be transferred to the indicated bank account. The separate fee for the issuance or delivery by post of the official document certifying residential address (i.e., ‘lakcímkártya’) may not be paid to the bank account of the National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing, as well as the fee for the aliens policing procedure may not be transferred to the bank account of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister.

 

 

 

 

Yours faithfully,

 

 

 

NATIONAL DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR ALIENS POLICING