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I had to provide proof of income when I applied for residency in January 2012. This was in the form of 2 bank statements showing rent payments from my tenant in Scotland.

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After some consideration and although I have a settler status in Hungary, being an EU citizen (i.e. a citizen of a member state of the EU) gives advantages living here that following Brexit I would loose, therefore I have decided to apply for Hungarian citizenship.

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Possibly the wider issue that Hungary may also decide to withdraw from the EU is now more likely.

The Leader here has already given a radio interview making the point that the EU has failed to answer the questions asked by the Hungarian parliament, not in itself a statement of intent, but one of growing dissatisfaction.

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I'm wondering if Visas would be made difficult by the government? I'm still not convinced the Visegrad group would actually leave too? Too many people in power playing political games.

I do have my residence and all the cards too (ADO, TAJ etc). Just struggling with the language as two small children limit your time.

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If Hungary leaves the EU, they'll even have more need of any money that tourists and expats might bring - so they won't make it too difficult to visit/live here.

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Out of interest, I am assuming you need to be fluent in Hungarian to apply for citizenship if you live here?

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Thanks. So no Hungarian roots or no Hungarian marriage basically bars you from applying.

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So basic conversational Hungarian then? Say hello, how are you and basic statements about you and your life? Ok, that's achievable......

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You do have to understand the questions though! This is the thing with learning a language, they can teach you questions and answers but they can't teach you every possible answer to a particular question or every possible wording of a question like "How are you?".

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Exactly. Always a way to catch you out ;) In my last Hungarian exam everything was in Hungarian, i.e. all the instructions even though it was at B1 level. The invigilator spoke only in Hungarian so I had to watch other people to see when I had to turn over the paper. lol

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Does anyone know anyone who has done it? I could in theory go for it next year apparently as I have a Hungarian wife and Hungarian children and it's reduced to 3 years apparently.......!

So potentially can be safe then. I assume that the test would be much like the UK citizenship test which I understand was pretty challenging even for a local! So history, culture, language etc. What sort of level of speaking/written language? I will be relying on books and my Wife though....

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Did you look at my link? I assumed that the simplification referred to meant that now they only test you on language, not history or whatever.

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I also checked the webpage of the President's Office and a few other places and they all mention a constitutinal test. Whether that has changed again very recently and no-one has updated any of the official documents yet I don't know. I would expect they would want evidence of knowing howthe country worked and some background too I would have thought?

I'm still frazzled from Saturday morning.

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Wonder where this places me being deaf? I would need assistance via a sign language interpreter. I have a deaf friend in Hungary who was born in Egypt and he is now a Hungarian citizen so should I decide to go down this route I'd ask him.