Hungary residency by investment

Routes and amounts

Routes under Act XC of 2023^1,2.

Key facts

Programme

Guest Investor Programme

Status

open

Authority

National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing

Legal basis

Act XC of 2023

Permit

10 years, renewable once for 10 years

Minimum stay

None

Permanent residence

Not a route to permanent residence

Citizenship

Not a citizenship route

Family included

Spouse and dependent children

Property route

No

Last verified

3 September 2026

What the amounts mean

The fund route is classed as "fund" in the route-type column even though the fund itself buys property. The investor holds fund units: the fund must be approved by the Hungarian authorities, must place at least 40% of its capital in Hungarian residential property, and the units must be held for five years^1,2. What the investor gets back depends on the fund's performance and its redemption terms, which the programme rules do not fix. The EUR 1,000,000 donation route goes to a public-interest trust supporting higher education and is not returned¹.

Until 15 January 2025 a third route existed: the purchase of residential property for at least EUR 500,000. That option was removed on that date, and the dataset records the removal in the change log^1,2. A reader who finds the EUR 500,000 figure quoted elsewhere is reading material written before the change.

Stay rules and renewal

The permit is issued for ten years and can be renewed once for a further ten¹. No minimum stay applies¹. Twenty years of residence rights without a presence requirement is the longest permit term in the dataset, and it comes with the narrowest onward path: the programme records no permanent-residence step and is not a citizenship route¹.

Family

The spouse and dependent children may be included¹. Parents are not listed, which places Hungary with Latvia and Cyprus at the narrow end of the family scope in the dataset.

Citizenship position

The Guest Investor Programme is not a route to Hungarian citizenship¹. The dataset records the position as "not a citizenship route" rather than giving a number of years, because the permit does not feed a naturalisation count in the way a residence permit in Portugal or Italy does.

Where the figures come from

The National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing publishes no consolidated English page for the programme. This row therefore rests on two published statements that agree with each other: an International Bar Association note on the programme's amendments¹ and one licensed adviser's guide². The adviser link is the only one of its kind on this site and is used because it is the clearest English statement of the fund conditions available; the authority's site is linked in the footer for the reader who wants the Hungarian original.