Details

• family members (non-residents) of Hungarian citizens
• anyone who has residency in Hungary, AND their family members
• anyone who has a permit that is valid for at least 90 days
• members of Hungarian sports clubs
• people invited by Hungarian sports clubs
• transportation of goods and transit (passing through) will be allowed
• official visits and diplomatic entry will be allowed
• people who can provide a document (in English or Hungarian) stating that you have successfully recovered from Covid-19 in the past 6 months

More exceptions

• you have successfully recovered from Covid-19 in the past 6 months (proof has to be medical documentation in English or Hungarian)
• you have legal business (such as court summon) to attend to in Hungary, which can be proven by a document issued by a Hungarian jury or legal institution
• private business matters or work you have to do in Hungary, which you can prove with an invitation issued by a government body or a government operated institution (work contract, freelancing contract etc.)
• you have medical reasons to enter the country, which you can prove with a document/invitation issued by a Hungarian medical facility
• you are student of a Hungarian school, college, university, which you can prove with a document issued by your school
• returning to your country of origin after finishing a transport job
• attending to family events such as weddings and funerals (proof: invitation)
• you need to care for a close family member
• attending to an international sports or religious event (proof: invitation) - note that this reason was outruled, there is complete ban on events starting the 10th November 2020!

How to apply? When to apply?

• you can apply online in English or Hungarian yourself
• you can apply through someone who you give power of attorney, or otherwise authorize them to do it in your name
• if you apply for more than one person who plan to enter at the same time and for the same reason, applications can be done at the same time (each person needs to file an application but they will be grouped)
• one application is enough if the people who enter are all members of the same family

• reason for your application (why you want to/need to enter Hungary)
• the issue number of the personal identification document you plan to use for crossing the border (ID, passport)
• a copy of a document proving that you have a good reason to enter (suitable proofs are listed above, they mostly expect documentation issued by Hungarian institutions, facilities and government bodies)
• power of attorney or the authorization documentation from all of the people whose application you are handling

• if they doubt the authenticity of the information you provided
• if your entry is a national security risk
• if your entry is a risk from the perspective of spreading the virus
• if your entry is a risk for public safety

Military

Daily traveling for work

Transit and passing through Hungary

• you cooperate with border control (taking your temperature and providing your contact information)
• you have personal identification that otherwise allows you to cross borders (ID, passport)
• you can prove that your destination country is not Hungary
• your destination country will allow your entry (there are no travel bans in place that you might fall under over there)
• you are required to take a certain route and you may only stop at certain places (except for medical/technical problems)
• you must leave the country within 24 hours
• you must use one of the dedicated border checkpoints for entering and leaving (this is determined by the national police) and the dedicated resting points along the way

• The NWA is the nexus of the three biggest stories this week, and the possible Turner buyout of the promotion may be the biggest story of the year. It’s been rumored for weeks that the Crockett family will sell the majority of their shares to Turner Entertainment, and Dave can confirm that such a deal is currently awaiting approval from Turner’s acquisitions committee. If all looks good, we should know within a week. We're not going to know within a week, this is going to take more time.
  
• If Turner does buy the NWA, Jim Crockett is likely to remain in charge of day-to-day operations. The rest of the family would be divesting themselves of their interest in the company, and Turner will be in charge of promotion, PR, and other business activities. This should theoretically result in a “more professional and business-like approach.” Peers into the future HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Anyway, Dave thinks it’s foolish to speculate at this point about possible ramifications of the deal. And getting out of speculation and into fact: if the deal doesn’t go through, NWA is in a lot of trouble going into the summer, and they need to make major changes to how they conduct business no matter the outcome of the deal. There are wrestlers in the NWA who are owed money, and they’re not going to work for free.
  
• Thanks to Turner’s help, the NWA has already cleared availability for over 8.5 million homes for the Great American Bash ppv on July 10. Vince McMahon’s attempt to monopolize ppv wrestling has failed, at least for the moment. This is the second widest potential audience for a ppv wrestling event ever (Wrestlemania IV cleared 10 million potential homes). With WWF running a ppv (the Summerslam) from Madison Square Garden on August 29, that means most ppv providers have elected to ignore Vince’s ultimatum prohibiting competing wrestling ppvs 60 days before and 21 days after a WWF ppv. That ultimatum killed Starrcade last year, but let’s be thankful it’s pretty much dusted. This all means WWF has failed to kill Crockett’s ability to run ppv events, which was one of their goals.
  
• The card for the Great American Bash is set. Flair vs. Luger for the NWA Title; Windham vs. Rhodes for the U.S. Title; Triple tower of doom featuring the Road Warriors, Garvins, and Steve Williams vs. Kevin Sullivan, Al Perez, Mike Rotunda, Warlord, and Barbarian (yep, they’re going forward with it); Tully and Arn vs. Sting and Koloff for the world tag titles; and Midnights vs. Fantastics for the U.S. tag titles.
  
• The income potential is big for the Great American Bash. If they equal their previous buyrates, they should clear over a quarter million homes and take in ppv sales of over $4 million (ppv for the show will be $15.95), which will at the most conservative estimate give the NWA a cool $1 million in revenue after all the other splits on the ppv total revenue.
  
• The FCC ruled in favor of syndicated exclusivity this past week, and this has some potential consequences for the NWA. Syndicated exclusivity means that any program carried in your local market (so a show that’s put on free tv) cannot be shown on cable by bringing it in from another market. Dave gives the example of how if your local channel 7 carries the Beverly Hillbillies, then your cable company can’t show Beverly Hillbillies by pulling it in from another station in a different market, even if it's in another time slot. This is a potential catastrophe for WTBS, because so much of their programming is old network reruns which duplicate stuff shown in most markets, meaning they have to completely change up their programming or have so little of their material picked up by cable companies that they drop the station altogether. This is effective a year from now (plus any time that might get it stalled by court appeals), so there’s probably a couple years before it really goes into effect, but this is the main reason Turner is starting the TNT network and why eventually you’ll see wrestling get on there alongside the sports and movies and there won’t be old network tv reruns on it.
  
• Curiously, the NWA was doing the hard sell of the May 22 Omni house show on this past Saturday’s TBS show. The press boxes were really full (they’re usually totally empty), and Dave supposes they were probably filled with Turner executives checking out what they’re considering buying. It worked, by the way - 7,300 fans turned up for the Omni show, triple the crowd at last month’s show (and no, the card wasn’t any more enticing than last month’s either).
  
• Reborn UWF had their first show on May 12 and the fans flooded in. They sold out Korauken Hall in 15 minutes about a month ago, with all seats priced at $40 (a $92,000 gate). The first match of the three match show had Nobuhiko Takada vs. Shigeo Miyato in a ten minute exhibition, where Takada won with two submissions to nothing for Miyato. Tetsuo Nakano made Yoji Anjo submit in a 24 minute match for the second match of the show. Lastly, Akira Maeda and Kazuo Yamazaki had a match with tremendous heat and it is clear that there is no man in wrestling as over as Maeda is. Maeda hasn’t wrestled since he shot on Riki Choshu in November last year, and as a result he wasn’t quite in top condition and blew up part of the way through the match, but they went 25 minutes and Maeda won by submission. Dave was told American fans would likely be bored by the match, but the fans there were eating it up. UWF’s next show is set for June 11 in Sapporo, and all 6,000 seats sold out on the weekend of May 13. The real test is coming, though: will they be able to maintain interest with only three major stars and no regular foreigners? They’ll have foreigners in Sapporo, with those guys probably doing singles matches against Takada, Yamazaki, and Maeda.