Country-wide policy
Four Conditions Sit Under Almost Every Residence Title, and the Money One Is Measured After Your Rent
Part 1 of the Niederlassungs- und Aufenthaltsgesetz carries a set of conditions that nearly every title in the Act imports by reference. Section 11(2) requires that the stay does not conflict with the public interest, that the applicant has a legal claim to accommodation regarded as usual for a comparable family, that they hold health insurance covering all risks under a policy liable to pay in Austria, and that the stay could not lead to a financial burden on a public body. Section 11(5) then defines that last condition in money: fixed and regular income of one's own, enough to live without social assistance and at the level of the reference rates in section 293 of the ASVG - reduced by rent, loan repayments, attachments and maintenance paid to people outside the household. Some titles disapply parts of this. The Rot-Weiss-Rot Karte drops the accommodation and public-funds conditions; the student permit drops accommodation.
Topics it changes
- Residency on passive income
- Residency as a retiree
- Residency through work
- Residency as a student
- Residency through investment
- Residency through marriage
- Access to healthcare
What it requires
- No conflict with the public interest
- A legal claim to accommodation usual for a family of comparable size
- Health insurance covering all risks and liable to pay in Austria
- Fixed and regular income at the § 293 ASVG reference rates, measured net of regular outgoings
At a glance
- Where they are
- NAG § 11 Abs. 2, imported by the individual title provisions as "die Voraussetzungen des 1. Teiles"
Each title section says which of them, if any, it disapplies.
- The income benchmark
- The reference rates in § 293 ASVG
NAG § 11 Abs. 5. For a self-funded settlement permit § 44 Abs. 1 Z 3 doubles it; for the general condition it is the rate itself.
- What is subtracted
- Rent, loan repayments, attachments, and maintenance paid to people outside the household
NAG § 11 Abs. 5, second sentence.
- What is not counted on a first application
- Benefits that would only arise once the permit is granted
NAG § 11 Abs. 5, last sentence, naming social assistance and the Ausgleichszulage.
- Dropped for the Rot-Weiss-Rot Karte
- Accommodation and the public-funds condition
NAG § 41 Abs. 1, which imports Part 1 "mit Ausnahme des § 11 Abs. 2 Z 2 und 4".
- Dropped for the student permit
- Accommodation
NAG § 64 Abs. 1 Z 1, "mit Ausnahme des § 11 Abs. 2 Z 2".
- Renewal adds one
- Module 1 of the Integrationsvereinbarung, in time
NAG § 11 Abs. 2 Z 6, which applies to an application to extend under § 24.
What the law says
«Aufenthaltstitel dürfen einem Fremden nur erteilt werden, wenn - 1. Ziffer eins der Aufenthalt des Fremden nicht öffentlichen Interessen widerstreitet; - 2. Ziffer 2 der Fremde einen Rechtsanspruch auf eine Unterkunft nachweist, die für eine vergleichbar große Familie als ortsüblich angesehen wird; - 3. Ziffer 3 der Fremde über einen alle Risken abdeckenden Krankenversicherungsschutz verfügt und diese Versicherung in Österreich auch leistungspflichtig ist; - 4. Ziffer 4 der Aufenthalt des Fremden zu keiner finanziellen Belastung einer Gebietskörperschaft führen könnte;»The four shared conditions. The insurance one is stricter than it looks: cover for all risks, and an insurer that is actually liable to pay in Austria.
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Austria's consolidated federal law, served from ris.bka.gv.at at two stable address forms. A whole law is GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=<n>, and a single provision is NormDokument.wxe with the same Gesetzesnummer plus &Paragraf=<n>. The whole-law page prints its own date on its face as "Fassung vom <dd.mm.yyyy>", generated on request, so the consolidation date is whatever day you read it; the single-provision page says "tagesaktuelle Fassung" instead and adds the list of every earlier version of that provision with the amending BGBl number. Each law's front matter lists every amending act in order. There is a companion OGD search interface at data.bka.gv.at/ris/api/v2.6/Bundesrecht which returns the Gesetzesnummer for a title and is how an instrument is located rather than guessed at.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidations are unofficial: the authentic text is the one published in the Bundesgesetzblatt, and for that the BgblAuth collection is the source, not this one. Every provision is rendered twice on the same page - once with its abbreviations ("§ 53 Abs. 2 Z 5") and once with them spelled out ("Paragraph 53, Absatz 2, Ziffer 5,") - which is an accessibility rendering and not a drafting feature, so a quotation that spans the join will contain the same sentence twice and a quotation must be taken from one rendering. Numbered list items carry the same doubling ("- 1. Ziffer eins"), so a quotation crossing an item boundary carries that furniture with it. It may not be cited for Land law at all: the nine Laender publish separately, and naturalisation fees and much of what a resident actually meets are Land matters. It carries no case law; that is a different RIS application (Judikatur) not read here. A Verordnung is only here if it is in force today - a Gesetzesnummer whose ordinance has expired answers GeltendeFassung with a 404, which looks exactly like an address that never existed.
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«Der Aufenthalt eines Fremden führt zu keiner finanziellen Belastung einer Gebietskörperschaft (Abs. 2 Z 4), wenn der Fremde feste und regelmäßige eigene Einkünfte hat, die ihm eine Lebensführung ohne Inanspruchnahme von Sozialhilfeleistungen der Gebietskörperschaften ermöglichen und der Höhe nach den Richtsätzen des § 293 des Allgemeinen Sozialversicherungsgesetzes (ASVG), BGBl. Nr. 189/1955 , entsprechen.»What the money condition means, and what it is measured against.
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Austria's consolidated federal law, served from ris.bka.gv.at at two stable address forms. A whole law is GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=<n>, and a single provision is NormDokument.wxe with the same Gesetzesnummer plus &Paragraf=<n>. The whole-law page prints its own date on its face as "Fassung vom <dd.mm.yyyy>", generated on request, so the consolidation date is whatever day you read it; the single-provision page says "tagesaktuelle Fassung" instead and adds the list of every earlier version of that provision with the amending BGBl number. Each law's front matter lists every amending act in order. There is a companion OGD search interface at data.bka.gv.at/ris/api/v2.6/Bundesrecht which returns the Gesetzesnummer for a title and is how an instrument is located rather than guessed at.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidations are unofficial: the authentic text is the one published in the Bundesgesetzblatt, and for that the BgblAuth collection is the source, not this one. Every provision is rendered twice on the same page - once with its abbreviations ("§ 53 Abs. 2 Z 5") and once with them spelled out ("Paragraph 53, Absatz 2, Ziffer 5,") - which is an accessibility rendering and not a drafting feature, so a quotation that spans the join will contain the same sentence twice and a quotation must be taken from one rendering. Numbered list items carry the same doubling ("- 1. Ziffer eins"), so a quotation crossing an item boundary carries that furniture with it. It may not be cited for Land law at all: the nine Laender publish separately, and naturalisation fees and much of what a resident actually meets are Land matters. It carries no case law; that is a different RIS application (Judikatur) not read here. A Verordnung is only here if it is in force today - a Gesetzesnummer whose ordinance has expired answers GeltendeFassung with a 404, which looks exactly like an address that never existed.
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«Drittstaatsangehörigen kann ein Aufenthaltstitel „Rot-Weiß-Rot – Karte“ erteilt werden, wenn sie die Voraussetzungen des 1. Teiles mit Ausnahme des § 11 Abs. 2 Z 2 und 4 erfüllen und eine schriftliche Mitteilung der regionalen Geschäftsstelle des Arbeitsmarktservice gemäß § 20d Abs. 1 Z 1 AuslBG vorliegt.»How a title disapplies part of Part 1, in this case two of the four.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
Austria's consolidated federal law, served from ris.bka.gv.at at two stable address forms. A whole law is GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=<n>, and a single provision is NormDokument.wxe with the same Gesetzesnummer plus &Paragraf=<n>. The whole-law page prints its own date on its face as "Fassung vom <dd.mm.yyyy>", generated on request, so the consolidation date is whatever day you read it; the single-provision page says "tagesaktuelle Fassung" instead and adds the list of every earlier version of that provision with the amending BGBl number. Each law's front matter lists every amending act in order. There is a companion OGD search interface at data.bka.gv.at/ris/api/v2.6/Bundesrecht which returns the Gesetzesnummer for a title and is how an instrument is located rather than guessed at.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidations are unofficial: the authentic text is the one published in the Bundesgesetzblatt, and for that the BgblAuth collection is the source, not this one. Every provision is rendered twice on the same page - once with its abbreviations ("§ 53 Abs. 2 Z 5") and once with them spelled out ("Paragraph 53, Absatz 2, Ziffer 5,") - which is an accessibility rendering and not a drafting feature, so a quotation that spans the join will contain the same sentence twice and a quotation must be taken from one rendering. Numbered list items carry the same doubling ("- 1. Ziffer eins"), so a quotation crossing an item boundary carries that furniture with it. It may not be cited for Land law at all: the nine Laender publish separately, and naturalisation fees and much of what a resident actually meets are Land matters. It carries no case law; that is a different RIS application (Judikatur) not read here. A Verordnung is only here if it is in force today - a Gesetzesnummer whose ordinance has expired answers GeltendeFassung with a 404, which looks exactly like an address that never existed.
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«Drittstaatsangehörigen ist eine Aufenthaltsbewilligung als Student auszustellen, wenn sie - 1. Ziffer eins die Voraussetzungen des 1. Teiles mit Ausnahme des § 11 Abs. 2 Z 2 erfüllen und»The same mechanism for students, dropping one.
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Austria's consolidated federal law, served from ris.bka.gv.at at two stable address forms. A whole law is GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=<n>, and a single provision is NormDokument.wxe with the same Gesetzesnummer plus &Paragraf=<n>. The whole-law page prints its own date on its face as "Fassung vom <dd.mm.yyyy>", generated on request, so the consolidation date is whatever day you read it; the single-provision page says "tagesaktuelle Fassung" instead and adds the list of every earlier version of that provision with the amending BGBl number. Each law's front matter lists every amending act in order. There is a companion OGD search interface at data.bka.gv.at/ris/api/v2.6/Bundesrecht which returns the Gesetzesnummer for a title and is how an instrument is located rather than guessed at.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidations are unofficial: the authentic text is the one published in the Bundesgesetzblatt, and for that the BgblAuth collection is the source, not this one. Every provision is rendered twice on the same page - once with its abbreviations ("§ 53 Abs. 2 Z 5") and once with them spelled out ("Paragraph 53, Absatz 2, Ziffer 5,") - which is an accessibility rendering and not a drafting feature, so a quotation that spans the join will contain the same sentence twice and a quotation must be taken from one rendering. Numbered list items carry the same doubling ("- 1. Ziffer eins"), so a quotation crossing an item boundary carries that furniture with it. It may not be cited for Land law at all: the nine Laender publish separately, and naturalisation fees and much of what a resident actually meets are Land matters. It carries no case law; that is a different RIS application (Judikatur) not read here. A Verordnung is only here if it is in force today - a Gesetzesnummer whose ordinance has expired answers GeltendeFassung with a 404, which looks exactly like an address that never existed.
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«Drittstaatsangehörigen, die in den letzten fünf Jahren ununterbrochen tatsächlich niedergelassen waren, kann ein Aufenthaltstitel „Daueraufenthalt – EU“ erteilt werden, wenn sie - 1. Ziffer eins die Voraussetzungen des 1. Teiles erfüllen und - 2. Ziffer 2 das Modul 2 der Integrationsvereinbarung (§ 10 IntG) erfüllt haben.»Where the conditions lead: five years of actual settlement and Module 2 of the Integrationsvereinbarung open the Daueraufenthalt - EU.
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Austria's consolidated federal law, served from ris.bka.gv.at at two stable address forms. A whole law is GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=<n>, and a single provision is NormDokument.wxe with the same Gesetzesnummer plus &Paragraf=<n>. The whole-law page prints its own date on its face as "Fassung vom <dd.mm.yyyy>", generated on request, so the consolidation date is whatever day you read it; the single-provision page says "tagesaktuelle Fassung" instead and adds the list of every earlier version of that provision with the amending BGBl number. Each law's front matter lists every amending act in order. There is a companion OGD search interface at data.bka.gv.at/ris/api/v2.6/Bundesrecht which returns the Gesetzesnummer for a title and is how an instrument is located rather than guessed at.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidations are unofficial: the authentic text is the one published in the Bundesgesetzblatt, and for that the BgblAuth collection is the source, not this one. Every provision is rendered twice on the same page - once with its abbreviations ("§ 53 Abs. 2 Z 5") and once with them spelled out ("Paragraph 53, Absatz 2, Ziffer 5,") - which is an accessibility rendering and not a drafting feature, so a quotation that spans the join will contain the same sentence twice and a quotation must be taken from one rendering. Numbered list items carry the same doubling ("- 1. Ziffer eins"), so a quotation crossing an item boundary carries that furniture with it. It may not be cited for Land law at all: the nine Laender publish separately, and naturalisation fees and much of what a resident actually meets are Land matters. It carries no case law; that is a different RIS application (Judikatur) not read here. A Verordnung is only here if it is in force today - a Gesetzesnummer whose ordinance has expired answers GeltendeFassung with a 404, which looks exactly like an address that never existed.
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Practical notes
The income condition is measured net. A salary that clears the reference rate on paper may not clear it after rent in Vienna, and the Act says so rather than leaving it to practice.
Section 11 Abs. 3 lets the authority grant a title in spite of several of these where article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights requires it, and sets out nine factors it must weigh.