Residence Permit for the purpose of intra-corporate transfer and Permit for long-term mobility
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Vallalaton beluli athelyezes celu tartozkodasi engedely es hosszu tavu mobilitasi engedely as of 2026-08-07[2] |
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| Official name (English) | Residence Permit for the purpose of intra-corporate transfer and Permit for long-term mobility as of 2026-03-11[4] |
| Legal basis | Not established from a qualifying source No Hungarian Act or section is cited. NDGAP cites Directive 96/71/EC only as an exclusion ground. |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2026-03-11[4] |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | EEA as of 2026-03-11[4] Open to third-country nationals only; EEA nationals and their family members hold the right of free movement and residence. Stateless persons qualify as third-country nationals. |
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Permit terms
| Initial duration | 3 years as of 2026-03-11[4] Executive employees and specialists. For trainees the maximum is 1 year. NDGAP publishes no separate validity for the long-term mobility permit. |
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| Renewable | Yes as of 2026-03-11[4] |
| Maximum total duration | 3 years as of 2026-03-11[4] |
| Work rights | Not established from a qualifying source NDGAP publishes no work-rights clause and no single-employer restriction for this permit. The nearest published constraint is definitional: the transferee is 'bound by work contract before and during his/her transfer with the same company or group of companies'. |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Not established from a qualifying source Not stated on NDGAP's factsheet, which – unlike the posted-work factsheet – carries no national-residence-card bar. |
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Requirements
| Job offer required | Yes as of 2026-03-11[4] An employment contract or letter of assignment between the applicant and the company established in the third country, stating that the transfer was immediately preceded by three months of continuous employment at the same company or group of companies; evidence that the Hungarian host entity and the third-country company belong to the same company or group of companies; a statement by the Hungarian host entity that the executive employee or specialist has the experience needed; and a declaration by the third-country company of the planned duration of the transfer in the EU, to prove that Hungary is the Member State with the longest transfer period. |
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| Qualification requirement | degree, equivalent experience as of 2026-03-11[4] NDGAP requires evidence that executive employees and specialists hold the university degree or vocational training, and that trainee employees hold the required university degree, plus a host-entity statement that the executive employee or specialist has the necessary experience. No minimum experience period is published. |
| Employer sponsorship | Yes as of 2026-03-11[4] A sending third-country company and a Hungarian host entity in the same group are conditions; the employer may lodge the application with the employee's written consent, via Enter Hungary only, and the document is then delivered to the employer. |
| Job-search route | No as of 2026-03-11[4] |
Process
| Where to apply from | either as of 2026-03-11[4] Abroad where entry is not visa-exempt and the applicant does not hold an ICT permit issued by another EU Member State. In Hungary during a legal visa-free stay by a person not holding a residence permit, and by a holder of another Member State's ICT permit applying for the long-term mobility permit – the latter at the latest 20 days before the long-term mobility starts, or 20 days before the end of a lawful residence in Hungary of not more than 90 days. Extensions only in Hungary via Enter Hungary. |
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| Statutory processing time | 21 days as of 2026-03-11[4] Excludes deficiency-remedy periods. Outer deadline: decision as to merits within 70 days. |
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Physical presence
| none stated | to keep the permit as of 2026-03-11[4] |
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Family inclusion
| Family members may be included | Yes as of 2026-03-10[1][3] Established from NDGAP's family-reunification factsheet, which grants the permit to 'a family member of a person in possession of a residence permit' and then publishes a closed list of sponsor permit types that are excluded. This permit is not on that exclusion list. This is a positive general rule plus an express carve-out that does not reach this permit, not an inference from a negative list. NDGAP's family-reunification factsheet additionally names intra-corporate transfer among the permits whose holder's employer may lodge the family member's application. |
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| Eligible relations | spouse, registered partner, minor child as of 2026-03-10[1][3] |
Your next step
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Verification
| Sources cited | 5 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 4 |
| Oldest as-of date | 2026-03-03 |
| Newest as-of date | 2026-08-07 |
| Reviewed on | 2026-08-11 |
| Schema version | 1.1 |
Sources
- [1] EU Immigration Portal – Hungary, family member
European Commission · international organisation · Tier 2 · Accessed 2026-08-07 - [2] Tajekoztatok – Hungarian-language factsheet index (official permit designations)
National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing (NDGAP/OIF) · official portal · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-07 · Archived copy - [3] Residence permit for the purpose of family reunification
National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing (NDGAP/OIF) · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2026-03-10 · Accessed 2026-08-07 · Archived copy - [4] Residence Permit for the purpose of intra-corporate transfer and Permit for long-term mobility
National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing (NDGAP/OIF) · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2026-03-11 · Accessed 2026-08-07 - [5] Procedural fees
National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing (NDGAP/OIF) · fee schedule · Tier 1 · Published 2026-03-03 · Accessed 2026-08-07 · Archived copy