Frydenberg citizenship hearing date set

A challenge against Treasurer Josh Frydenberg's eligibility to sit in parliament will be heard in February next year.

A resident of Mr Frydenberg's Victorian seat of Kooyong, Michael Staindl, filed a High Court petition in July challenging Mr Frydenberg's eligibility to sit in the federal parliament.

He argued the MP should be disqualified under the constitution because he is entitled to Hungarian citizenship.

On Thursday, Federal Court Chief Justice James Allsop set down February 18 and 19 for the hearing.

At least three witnesses will be called, while more than 250 pages of expert advice have already been filed.

Mr Frydenberg's mother Erica, who was born in Budapest in 1943, left the country in 1949.

She arrived in Australia with her siblings on the SS Surriento from the Italian city of Genoa in 1950 with travel documents issued to stateless people by the chief of police in Paris.

Mr Frydenberg argues the Hungarian government has turned up no evidence of him or his mother being Hungarian citizens.