Austria immigration rule changes
4 dated rule changes to Austria programmes, from 2020-09-01 to 2024-01-01. Each item links to the programme page and the official source we recorded it from. This is a record of what we captured, not a complete legislative history.
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2024 (1)
Austria Red-White-Red Card: Austria expanded shortage-occupation list further; reduced barriers for IT, healthcare, and engineering roles.
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2023 (1)
Austrian Citizenship by Descent (§58c Victims of National Socialism + §10 Jus Sanguinis): BMI clarified guidance for §58c applications via foreign missions, standardising the evidentiary checklist and confirming that descendants of stateless persons rendered stateless by NS racial decrees are also eligible.
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2022 (1)
Austria Red-White-Red Card: Austria expanded the Red-White-Red Card with significant reforms: lowered salary thresholds, expanded shortage-occupation list, added regular-employee track for tourism/agriculture sectors, simplified points criteria.
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2020 (1)
Austrian Citizenship by Descent (§58c Victims of National Socialism + §10 Jus Sanguinis): §58c entered into force, granting descendants of NS persecutees a declaratory right to Austrian citizenship with no generational cap and no renunciation requirement.
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