You don’t need a Hungarian company to bring your team here.

If a Hungarian client has contracted you, your specialists can work here on a short-term permit — applied for through your client, not a company you have to set up.

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Two questions decide everything: where your people are from, and how long they stay.

EU or EEA citizens

No work permit at all — they already have the right to work here. What is required instead: a posting notification before they start, an EU registration card if the stay runs past ninety days, and a labour registration for anyone on a Hungarian employment contract. Missing one of these is the most common mistake, and all of them are avoidable. Health cover for the posting is worth settling at the same time: an A1 certificate is often the answer.

Non-EU, under 90 days in any 180

A short-term work permit in Hungary, applied for through your Hungarian client. No corporate group relationship needed, no entity of your own. This is the permit type for subcontractors, installation teams and commissioning engineers — and some companies choose it deliberately, sending people in two waves, because staying under the threshold also keeps the tax position simpler. The employer notification obligations apply here too, and we watch those as well. A short-term work permit starts from EUR 400 net per person, and a business or tourist visa from EUR 450 — the first call is free and you get the price for your own case before anything is filed.

Non-EU, longer than 90 days

No longer a work permit but a residence permit — an intra-corporate transfer. That permit type requires a corporate group relationship: a foreign and a Hungarian entity under the same group.

NO HUNGARIAN ENTITY NEEDED

If a Hungarian company has contracted you, the permit goes through them. Your people stay on your own payroll.

WE SCHEDULE BACKWARDS

Your start date is fixed by the contract. We build the timetable back from it, instead of telling you when the paperwork happens to be ready.

ANY TIME ZONE

We have run these projects with teams in the United States, the United Kingdom and Asia. The time difference has never been the problem.

What our clients say

"From my first conversation with Henrietta and the team at Blue Bishop I knew we'd found the experts. They don't just know the law—they know how to get things done in Hungary. They handled everything impeccably from start to finish. Transparent communication, timely results and zero surprises throughout. You could not find a better resource than Blue Bishop!"

Susannah Blumenstock,
Vice President
Lilac Solutions Inc.

"Whenever we call or write, Heni replies immediately or within a short time, always with precise, up-to-date answers. Our current project is anything but a walk in the park — it is the first of its kind at our company — and she responds just as helpfully to every question we have."

Réka Szabó-Molnár,
HR Coordinator
ZEISS

"From the very beginning, you have always been incredibly supportive, responsive, and willing to go the extra mile to help us navigate what were often challenging and time-sensitive situations. Your persistence and determination to find solutions was greatly appreciated. I always felt that you were invested in helping us succeed rather than simply providing a service. That made a real difference and built a great deal of trust throughout our collaboration."

Ahmed Marjan,
Process Engineer
Evove

Questions companies ask before the first call

Do we need to set up a Hungarian company?

No. If a Hungarian company has contracted you, the work permit is applied for through them — under Hungarian law the Hungarian host is the relevant employer, and the arrangement is an assignment or a service contract rather than an employment relationship.

Your people stay on your own payroll. This applies to stays under ninety days in any hundred and eighty.

How long does it take?

The government office keeps its own deadlines, and they are not fully predictable. That is exactly why we schedule backwards from your start date and begin early enough that the unpredictable part still fits.

Tell us your installation date on the first call and we will tell you honestly whether it is reachable — including when it is not.


What does the Hungarian host company have to do?

More than a signature, but far less than a project. They provide company documents, and they request a workforce demand certificate — the labour market test that establishes the role could not be filled locally. It applies to short and long assignments alike.

There are exceptions in the law, and which ones apply depends on the case. We work that out before anything is filed. Everything else is ours.

What if the project runs longer than ninety days?

A short permit can be extended where the case justifies it: a project that has run a few weeks over with a foreseeable end date is reasonable. Another three months is not.

Beyond ninety days in any hundred and eighty it becomes a residence permit — an intra-corporate transfer, which needs a corporate group relationship. If your timeline is genuinely uncertain, say so on the first call: the two permit types are prepared differently and switching late is expensive.