Residence permit for the purpose of medical treatment
INFORMATION
1.) Which third-country nationals are
eligible to be granted a residence permit for the purpose of medical treatment?
A
residence permit for the purpose of medical treatment may be issued to a
third-country national:
·who plans to stay
in the territory of Hungary for the purpose of receiving medical treatment;
·accompanying his/her
minor child or any family member in need of support for
receiving medical treatment in the territory of Hungary.
Definition of third-country nationals:
·Non-Hungarian
nationals who are not persons with the right of free movement and residence,
i.e. who are not EEA nationals or family members of an EEA national, and
·stateless persons
qualify as third-country nationals.
Definition of family member:
·The third-country
national or his/her spouse of Hungarian citizenship,
·the third-country
national's minor child with his/her spouse (including adopted and fostered
children),
·a third-country
national's dependent minor child (including adopted and fostered children),
over whom the third-country national exercises parental custody,
·the dependent minor
child of the third-country citizen or his/her spouse of Hungarian citizenship
(including adopted and fostered children), over whom the spouse exercises
parental custody,
·a person who has the
right of parental custody over the minor Hungarian citizen, exercises the right
of parental custody, and lives in the same household as the Hungarian citizen
qualify as a family member.
2.) Where can clients submit their
applications?
I) Application for the issuance of
a residence permit
a)Application submission outside of Hungary
If your entry into
Hungary does not constitute a visa-exempt travel and
you are not a holder of a residence permit, your application for
the issuance of a residence permit is to be submitted outside of Hungary.
You may submit an
application before a diplomatic or consular foreign mission of Hungary in the
country of your nationality or your habitual place of residence. Please be
advised to contact the competent foreign mission of Hungary to inquire for
further information, if there are any other places authorised to receive
applications for a residence permit. Such application receiving places are
constituted by e.g. honorary consuls, trade representations, and external
service providers.
If there are not any
consulates or other types of places receiving application in the country of
your nationality or your habitual place of residence, in exceptional cases, you
may submit an application in a country where you are staying legally provided
that you provide proof of the reasons of your exceptional application
submission.
Submitting an
application for a visa separately is not required, as an application for the
issuance of a residence permit comprises an application for a visa entitling
its holder to collect a residence permit.
b)Application submission within the
territory of Hungary
When can an application for the issuance
of a residence permit be submitted within the territory of Hungary?
If you are allowed to
enter the territory of Hungary visa free due
to your nationality, and you are not a holder of a residence permit,
you may submit an application within the territory of Hungary during your legal
stay.
How can applications for a residence
permit be submitted in Hungary?
Application submission in Hungary is
available:
·by electronic means
via the electronic information system and procedure initiation platform of Enter
Hungary, which is available by clicking here, or
·in person, before
the competent regional directorate of NDGAP as per the
applicant’s place of accommodation. Contact details of the regional
directorates and further information are available by clicking here.
Please note that application submission is
available only via the Enter Hungary platform if your attorney-in-fact is a
legal representative or a legal person.
II) Application for the extension of
a residence permit
Submission of
applications for the extension of a residence permit for the purpose of medical
treatment is only available within the territory of Hungary, via the
platform of Enter Hungary, which is available by clicking here.
Please be informed that the extension of
the residence permit is only possible if
·you are a holder
of a valid residence permit for the purpose of medical treatment at
the time of application submission,
·you resided within the territory of Hungary with your residence permit at least 90 days in any 180-day period.
Furthermore, please
note that an application for the extension of a residence permit for the
purpose of medical treatment is to be submitted at least 30 days prior
to the date of expiry of the issued residence permit.
3.) Additional information on
application submission
For submission of an
application in person, applicants are required to complete the
application form correctly in full and to submit the completed
document with their signature. The form is available by clicking here and the
appendix here.
In Word format:
click here or here.
For submission of an
application via the platform of Enter Hungary, the full and correct completion
of the electronic application form is required, which is available on the
platform. The platform of Enter Hungary is available by
clicking here.
In case of application
submission in person, you may be exempted from the obligation to appear in
person only if you are unable to appear in person due to medical
conditions.
Instead of an applicant
with limited legal capacity or an incapacitated minor, the application is
to be submitted by the applicant’s legal representative; however, if (s)he has
reached the age of six, the minor applicant is required to appear in person
when the application is submitted.
For the purpose of the
issuance of a residence permit comprising biometric data, a facial
photograph and fingerprint of the applicant will be
taken.
An application
submitted via the platform of Enter Hungary is deemed to have been received by
the immigration authority, if the administrative service fee has been paid, and
the facial photograph and fingerprint of the applicant is taken and signature
specimen of the applicant is recorded within 15 days from the date of receipt.
The immigration authority will send out a notification when your application is
deemed to have been received.
4.) Administrative service fee for
the procedure
For information on administrative service
fees for procedures, please click here.
5.) What are the mandatory
attachments/enclosures of an application?
For the approval of an
application for a residence permit, the applicant is required to meet
conditions for entry and residence in Hungary, during the procedures mandatory
attachments/enclosures may serve as proof of meeting the set conditions.
Please make sure
completion of the attachments/enclosures is in full and check all documents
before submission, supporting the soonest possible processing and examination
of the application.
Documents in proof of the purpose of
residence
Medical treatment, as the purpose of stay,
may be verified by the following documents:
·formal statement
from the host medical facility on the medical treatment provided;
·for accompanying family members, an official document proving the family relationship between the family member and the person accompanied.
Documents in proof of means of subsistence
in Hungary
One of the following
documents must be submitted as proof that the applicant has sufficient
resources, i.e. (s)he can cover costs related to his/her subsistence,
accommodation, return/onward travel (i.e. exit from Hungary) and healthcare
services from legally acquired income and savings:
·a certificate from a
credit institution under the applicant’s name (e.g. a bank account statement,
an account statement on savings or stocks and bonds, bank balance statement),
·a
declaration on undertaking provision of support for care and
maintenance of the applicant by the family member of the applicant drawn up in
form of a notarial deed, and a document proving that the person undertaking the
support of the applicant is capable of the provision of support for
the applicant,
·a document on regular income issued by the employer or the tax authority.
Documents proving that the applicant has a
place of accommodation in Hungary
One of the following documents must be
submitted as proof that the applicant is the owner of a residential property
suitable for habitation, or (s)he has legal title to use such a real estate:
·a residential lease
contract,
·a document on
accommodation by courtesy,
·a document in proof
of ownership of the residential property,
·a document in proof
of the reservation of accommodation and payment for it.
Documents proving that the applicant has
health insurance
Documentary evidence
must be submitted as proof that the applicant has access to comprehensive
health insurance services covering all healthcare services or that (s)he can
cover the costs of such services.
An applicant meets this condition in the
following cases:
·(s)he qualifies as a
person with health insurance services under social security,
·(s)he has access to
the Hungarian health insurance services within the framework of an
international convention/treaty or agreement,
·(s)he can cover the
costs of his/her healthcare services based on documents in proof of his/her
means of subsistence available in Hungary.
Documents proving that the applicant meets
the conditions of exit (i.e. conditions to a return/onward travel)
Meeting the conditions of exit may be
proved by:
·a valid passport,
·having a valid
ticket/valid tickets for the relevant travel or the amount of money to cover
the costs of the travel.
Other required documents
·In case the applicant
is a minor, it must be proven that the parent or legal
representative of the minor consented to his/her stay in Hungary. The parental
consent must be included in a private document or a public document with full
evidential force, as well as provided with a Hungarian or English translation.
·Attaching/enclosing
1 facial photograph to/with the application is required.
In case of an extension, attaching/enclosing
documents on unchanged conditions again is not required.
6.) Time period of procedural
administration
Time period for procedural
administration: 21 days, in case of minor applicant, it is 8
days.
In addition to
mandatory attachments/enclosures, NDGAP may request the submission of
further documents for clarification of facts of the case or
implement other procedural conducts.
The period for
remedying deficiencies (e.g., submission of missing documents) and for the
implementation of various other procedural conducts is not comprised in
the time period of the procedural administration.
7.) Receiving the residence permit
document
If you submitted your
application for a residence permit before a foreign diplomatic or consular
mission of Hungary and the regional directorate approves your application for a
residence permit, it shall constitute approval for the issuance of an entry
visa entitling its holder to receive a residence permit, of which the competent
Hungarian consulate shall be notified by the regional directorate.
The entry visa
entitling its holder to receive a residence permit shall be issued by the
competent consulate officer.
Please note that type
D visas entitling their holder to receive their residence permits issued to
third-country nationals are single-entry visas authorising a stay of not more
than 30 days and are valid for 3 months.
Please note that if
you do not enter the territory of Hungary within 3 months from
the date of approval of the issuance of your residence permit and do not start
your approved residence, the approved residence permit becomes invalid
and the approval of your accrued right of entry and residence ceases.
A residence permit
document shall be delivered by way of post to the address
indicated as place of delivery in the application form.
Please note that the
document can only be received in person at the regional
directorate of NDGAP in case you are not in the position to receive the
document at the address indicated as place of delivery in your application.
8.) How long is the validity period
of the permit?
The validity period of
the document is determined by the length of the medical treatment, but is
maximised in 2 years, which may be extended on occasions by the
length of the medical treatment to a maximum period of 2 years.
Please note that the
authority shall determine the date of expiry of the residence permit in a way
that the third-country national’s travel document shall be
valid at least for another 3 months after the date of expiry of the
approved residence.
9.) Further information
·Submitting an
application for a residence permit for another purpose within the territory of
Hungary
During the validity
period of a residence permit for the purpose of medical treatment and after its
date of expiry, application for the issuance of a residence permit
under another legal title is not allowed in Hungary.
·Family
reunification
Family members of a
third-country national who is a holder of a residence permit for the purpose of
medical treatment or an applicant for a residence permit for the purpose of
medical treatment may not be granted a residence permit for family
reunification.
·Long-term
residence
Third-country nationals who are holders of
a residence permit for the purpose of medical treatment may not be granted
a national residence card.
·Appeal
In case of refusal,
the decision may be appealed within 8 days of delivery,
submitted to the authority of first instance, or at the Hungarian diplomatic or
consular foreign mission where the application was submitted.
Please note that the authority shall
dismiss the appeal without any examination as to merits in the
following cases:
- the appeal is received after
the deadline,
- the appeal is not submitted
by an authorised person,
- the applicant introduces and
refers to new facts of the case, of which (s)he was aware before the decision
was adopted,
- the appeal is submitted
without indicating its grounds or cause.
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