CHANGE as of 1 May 2025

CHANGE as of 1 May 2025

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

Budapest, 30 April 2025 

Dear Clients,

Please note that payment of a separate fee for the issuance and delivery by Post of the official document certifying residential address (i.e., ‘lakcímkártya’) in case of 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) shall be subject to changes as of 1 May 2025.

The fee shall be still 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) but to a changed bank account number.

The transfer is required to be completed as follows:

Name of the account holder: National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing

IBAN account number: HU77 10023002-00283511-02000006

Remittance advice comment data 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*

Unchanged 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 transfer payments received with an unidentifiable, blank transfer remittance advice data field cannot be accepted by the authority, and the applicant will be required and requested to make a subsequent transfer indicating remittance advice.

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.

If the applicant can pay the fee for the official document certifying residential address (i.e., ‘lakcímkártya’) and for its designated cost for delivery by Post only by international transfer payment, the transfer to be made shall be subject to the average exchange rate published by the Hungarian National Bank (‘Magyar Nemzeti Bank’) as per the respective day of transfer.

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.

Yours faithfully,

NATIONAL DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR ALIENS POLICING