UK help and services in Hungary

Services if you're visiting, studying, working or living in Hungary. Includes information about trading with and doing business in the UK and Hungary, and your rights after the UK’s exit from the EU.

Emergency help for British nationals in Hungary

Get help if you're the victim of crime, you've been arrested, or are affected by a crisis abroad.

Passports and emergency travel documents in Hungary

Includes how to cancel a lost passport, renew a passport and apply for an emergency travel document.

Travelling to Hungary

Includes travel advice and how to get married abroad.

Coming to the UK from Hungary

Get a visa to study, work or visit the UK.

Living in Hungary

Guidance on your rights after the UK’s exit from the EU, accessing healthcare, getting a document legalised, English-speaking lawyers, how to vote abroad.

Tax, benefits, pensions and working abroad in Hungary

Includes how to pay tax, claim State Pension and get tax credits abroad.
  • Benefits you can claim if you go abroad and countries with social security arrangements with the UK

  • What you need to know if you move or retire abroad - tax, pensions, voting and contacting your local council

  • Find out if you need to pay National Insurance in the UK or in the country you are visiting when you work abroad.

  • How to claim State Pension if you're overseas - payment, tax, change of circumstances - contact the International Pension Centre

  • Find out whether you need to pay UK tax on foreign income - residence and ‘non-dom’ status, tax returns, claiming relief if you’re taxed twice (including certificates of residence)

  • Find out whether you need to pay tax on your UK income while you're living abroad - non-resident landlord scheme, tax returns, claiming relief if you’re taxed twice, personal allowance of tax-free income, form R43

  • Where you can work, your rights, healthcare, tax and National Insurance payments.

Birth, death and marriage abroad in Hungary

Includes how to get married, list of funeral directors and how to register a birth abroad.

News and events in Hungary

Find out about the UK government's diplomatic, security and development work in Hungary.

Trade and invest: Hungary

Includes investing and setting up a business in the UK and doing business in Hungary.
  • DBT provides trade and investment services and practical support. We help UK companies succeed in Hungary, and Hungarian companies set up and invest in the UK.

  • Information on key security and political risks which UK businesses may face when operating in Hungary.

  • Choosing a legal structure when you're starting a business: the differences between being a sole trader and a limited company, including legal risk, registration and taxes.

British embassy or high commission in Hungary

Includes contact details, opening hours and consular fees and local services.
  • We maintain and develop relations between the UK and Hungary. Our work covers a range of issues including policy, defence and security, trade and investment.

  • This page lists guidance on how you can help yourself stay safe abroad, and the help the Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) can provide.