🇦🇹 Austria programs
Every official route we track for Austria — each figure dated and cited from a government source.
Asylgesetz 2005 - AsylG 2005 (Austrian Asylum Act 2005) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · HumanitarianAufenthaltsberechtigung plus — Humanitarian (Art 8 ECHR) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · HumanitarianCitizenship by Declaration — falsely treated as citizen for 15+ years (§ 57 StbG) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · NaturalisationCitizenship for Extraordinary Services — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Exceptional MeritCitizenship for Victims of the National Socialist Regime and their Direct Descendants — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · AncestryCitizenship — Holocaust Descendants (§ 58c StbG, BGBl. I 96/2019) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · AncestryDeclaration pursuant to § 58c of the Austrian Citizenship Act — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · AncestryEU Blue Card (Blaue Karte EU) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Employer-sponsored workEU/EEA/Swiss Free-Movement Registration (Anmeldebescheinigung) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Free MovementFamily Member – Family reunification for family members of Austrian citizens — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · FamilyFamily Reunification — Family of Third-Country National (RWR/Researcher/Blue Card) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · FamilyFamily — LTR-EU Family Mobility from another Member State (§ 50 NAG) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · FamilyGraduates of Austrian universities and universities of applied sciences — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · StudentICT - Intra-corporate transferee — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Employer-sponsored workIntra-Corporate Transferee (ICT) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Employer-sponsored workIntra-corporate Transfer of Managers, Specialists and Trainee Employees ("ICT" and "mobile ICT") — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Employer-sponsored workJob Seeker Visa — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Job seekerLTR-EU Intra-EU Mobility — Daueraufenthalt-EU of another Member State (§ 49 NAG) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Permanent SettlementMobile ICT (Intra-EU Mobility) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Employer-sponsored workMobile ICT - mobile intra-corporate transferee — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Employer-sponsored workMobile Researcher — Forscher-Mobilität from another EU Member State (§ 61 NAG) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · ResearcherNational Visa (Type D, long-stay) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · General ResidenceNaturalisation (fast-track 6 years — special integration) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · NaturalisationNaturalisation (general, 10 years) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · NaturalisationNaturalisation by Marriage (6 years residence + 5 years marriage) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Spouse PartnerNiederlassungsbewilligung – ausgenommen Erwerbstätigkeit — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Permanent SettlementNiederlassungsbewilligung — Künstler (Artist) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Artist EntertainerOther forms of settlement (Austria) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Permanent SettlementPermanent Residence — EU (Daueraufenthalt-EU) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Permanent SettlementPupil Residence Permit (Aufenthaltsbewilligung Schüler) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · StudentPupils — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · StudentRed-White-Red Card (Shortage Occupations) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Shortage occupationRed-White-Red Card (Very Highly Qualified Workers) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Employer-sponsored workRed-White-Red Card for Self-employed Key Workers — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · EntrepreneurRed-White-Red Card for Start-up Founders — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · EntrepreneurRed-White-Red Card for graduates — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Employer-sponsored workRed-White-Red Card plus — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Employer-sponsored workRed-White-Red Card — Other Key Workers — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Employer-sponsored workRed-White-Red Card — Self-employed Key Workers — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · EntrepreneurRed-White-Red Card — Very Highly Qualified Workers — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Skilled independentRegular Workers in Tourism, Agriculture and Forestry — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Employer-sponsored workResidence Permit – Researcher-Mobility — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · ResearcherResidence Permit – Student - no mobility programme — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · StudentResidence Permit – Student – mobility programme or agreement between higher education institutions — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · StudentResidence Permit – Student — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · StudentResidence permit social service workers — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Cultural ExchangeResidence permit „special cases of gainful employment“ — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Employer-sponsored workSchengen Visa (Type C, short-stay) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · TourismSeconded employee — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Employer-sponsored workSettlement Permit - Special Cases of Gainful Employment — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Employer-sponsored workSettlement Permit – Researchers — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · ResearcherSettlement permit pursuant to § 56 (1) NAG — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · FamilySettlement permit relative (Niederlassungsbewilligung – Angehöriger) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · FamilySocial Service Employee — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Cultural ExchangeSpecial cases of gainful employment (Au Pairs) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · StudentStay permit cross-border worker — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Employer-sponsored workStay permit mobile ICT (Aufenthaltsbewilligung Mobiler unternehmensintern transferierter Arbeitnehmer – "mobile ICT") — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Employer-sponsored workStay permit self-employed — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · EntrepreneurStudent Residence Permit (Aufenthaltsbewilligung Student) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · StudentStudents — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · StudentSubsidiary protection status — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · HumanitarianVolunteers — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Cultural ExchangeWorking Holiday Visa — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Working holidaylong-term resident – EU — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Permanent Settlementresidence permit volunteer (Aufenthaltsbewilligung Freiwilliger) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Cultural Exchangesettlement permit - artists — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Permanent Settlementsettlement permit – gainful employment excepted — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Passive incomestay permit family unity — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Familystay permit researcher-mobility (Aufenthaltsbewilligung Forscher-Mobilität) — Austria: requirements, costs & how to apply (2026) · Skilled independent