A Permit for Living on Your Own Money, Rationed by a Yearly Quota That Did Not Arrive on Time
Austria does have a residence title for someone living on their own income and not working: the "Niederlassungsbewilligung - ausgenommen Erwerbstätigkeit". Two things stand between an applicant and it. The income test is high - twice the pension reference rate in § 293 ASVG, which for 2026 means twice 1 308,39 euro a month for a single person - and the title is quota-bound, so it may only be granted while a place is left in the Niederlassungsverordnung for the year. That ordinance is made annually by the federal government. The most recent one on the authentic Bundesgesetzblatt is the Niederlassungsverordnung 2025, published on 18 December 2025 and setting the quota for the year 2025.
At a glance
- The title
- Niederlassungsbewilligung - ausgenommen Erwerbstätigkeit
NAG § 8 Abs. 1 Z 5: settlement for a fixed period without any gainful activity.
- Income required
- Twice the reference rates in § 293 ASVG
NAG § 44 Abs. 1 Z 3 states the multiple and names the reference rate; it states no euro amount of its own.
- Twice the single-person rate, 2026
- 2 616,78 EUR a monthCALC (calculated by us, not published)
Our arithmetic: 2 x 1 308,39 EUR. The 2026 figure is the one printed in Anmerkung 2 to § 293 ASVG; the doubling is NAG § 44 Abs. 1 Z 3. Austria states no euro amount for this permit anywhere we read.
- Twice the couple rate, 2026
- 4 128,24 EUR a monthCALC (calculated by us, not published)
Our arithmetic: 2 x 2 064,12 EUR, the 2026 figure in Anmerkung 1 to § 293 ASVG for a pensioner living with a spouse or registered partner.
- Quota
- Required: no permit without a free place
NAG § 12 Abs. 3, and NAG § 12 Abs. 4, which rejects the application outright once the year's places are gone.
- Places for this category, 2025, nationwide
- Set Land by Land, not as a single national number
The Niederlassungsverordnung 2025 allots the § 13 Abs. 2 Z 4 category separately to each of the nine Laender; Vienna's share was 130.
- Most recent quota ordinance
- Niederlassungsverordnung 2025, published 18 December 2025
A title search of the authentic Bundesgesetzblatt returned 23 documents and no ordinance later than that one.
Figures marked CALC are our arithmetic, not a figure in any instrument. Where the law states a threshold as a multiple of something else, the amount shown is that multiple applied - and it moves when the underlying figure does.
Requirements
- The general conditions in Part 1 of the NAG: accommodation, comprehensive health insurance, no burden on public funds, no public-interest objection
- Fixed and regular monthly income equal to twice the reference rates in § 293 ASVG
- A free quota place in the Niederlassungsverordnung for the year
- A first application lodged at an Austrian representation abroad, with the decision awaited abroad, unless you are entitled to enter visa-free
How the process runs
- Step 1
Check whether a quota place exists
The Land's settlement and residence authority
The permit cannot be granted without one, and an application made when the year's places are exhausted is rejected without further procedure.
- Step 2
Lodge the first application abroad
The Austrian embassy or consulate, or the Land authority where § 21 Abs. 2 applies
A first application goes to the Austrian representation with territorial competence, and the decision is awaited outside Austria. Nationals entitled to enter visa-free may instead apply inside Austria during a lawful stay.
- Step 3
Prove the income
With the application
Fixed and regular monthly income at twice the § 293 ASVG reference rate, reduced by rent, loan repayments, attachments and maintenance paid to people outside the household.
Country-level policy
Austria rations settlement by number. Section 13 of the Niederlassungs- und Aufenthaltsgesetz obliges the federal government to make an ordinance for each calendar year setting how many of five kinds of residence title may be granted, broken down by Land and by category; section 12 then forbids granting one of those titles unless a place assigned from the year's register is free, and requires an application made once the places are gone to be rejected without further procedure. The five categories are family reunification with a third-country national, family of people under section 46a, change of purpose from a dependant's permit to a Rot-Weiss-Rot Karte plus, settlement without gainful activity, and holders of another Member State's long-term residence permit. The most recent such ordinance in the authentic Bundesgesetzblatt is the Niederlassungsverordnung 2025, promulgated on 18 December 2025, which sets the quota for the year 2025 and took effect at the end of the day it was published.
Section 21(1) of the Niederlassungs- und Aufenthaltsgesetz sets the default for every residence title in the Act: a first application is lodged at the Austrian representation with territorial competence, and the decision is awaited outside Austria. Section 21(2) then lists who may apply from inside instead. The list includes family members of Austrians, EEA nationals and Swiss nationals who live permanently in Austria; people within six months of losing Austrian, Swiss or EEA nationality; children within six months of birth; applicants for a researcher permit, a Blaue Karte EU or a student permit; and - the entry that touches most people in this corpus - anyone entitled to enter without a visa, who may apply during a lawful stay.
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.
German is not one requirement in Austria but three, and they belong to different instruments. At the first renewal of a residence title the applicant must have completed Module 1 of the Integrationsvereinbarung in time, under section 11(2) Z 6 of the Niederlassungs- und Aufenthaltsgesetz. Permanent residence - the Daueraufenthalt - EU after five years - requires Module 2 under section 45(1) Z 2. Naturalisation requires the level set by section 7(2) Z 2 of the Integrationsgesetz under section 10a(1) of the Staatsbürgerschaftsgesetz, together with basic knowledge of the democratic order, of Austrian history and of the history of the Land. German at B2 does something different again: under section 11a(6) Z 1 of the Staatsbürgerschaftsgesetz it cuts the naturalisation period from ten years to six.
Exceptions by origin
No exceptions recorded
Nothing we have read treats any nationality differently for this topic. The rule above applies to everyone.
What the law says
«„Niederlassungsbewilligung“, die zur befristeten Niederlassung und zur Ausübung einer selbständigen Erwerbstätigkeit berechtigt; - 5. Ziffer 5 „Niederlassungsbewilligung – ausgenommen Erwerbstätigkeit“, die zur befristeten Niederlassung ohne Ausübung einer Erwerbstätigkeit berechtigt;»The two settlement permits that do not depend on an employer: one for self-employment, one for no gainful activity at all. This is the title a person living on their own money applies for.
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«Drittstaatsangehörigen kann eine „Niederlassungsbewilligung – ausgenommen Erwerbstätigkeit“ erteilt werden, wenn - 1. Ziffer eins sie die Voraussetzungen des 1. Teiles erfüllen, - 2. Ziffer 2 ein Quotenplatz vorhanden ist und - 3. Ziffer 3 deren feste und regelmäßige monatliche Einkünfte der Höhe nach dem Zweifachen der Richtsätze des § 293 ASVG entsprechen.»The whole test: Part 1 conditions, a quota place, and income at twice the § 293 ASVG reference rate. Note the order - the money is the third condition, not the first.
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«Anm. 2: für 2024: 1 217,96 € Anmerkung 2, : für 2024: 1 217,96 € für 2025: 1 273,99 € für 2026: 1 308,39 €»The reference rate for a single person, as adjusted year by year. The 2026 figure is the input to the doubling in NAG § 44 Abs. 1 Z 3.
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«Anm. 1: gemäß BGBl. II Nr. 407/2023 für 2024: 1 921,46 € Anmerkung eins, : gemäß Bundesgesetzblatt Teil 2, Nr. 407 aus 2023, für 2024: 1 921,46 € gemäß BGBl. II Nr. 417/2024 für 2025: 2 009,85 € gemäß Bundesgesetzblatt Teil 2, Nr. 417 aus 2024, für 2025: 2 009,85 € gemäß BGBl. II Nr. 263/2025 für 2026: 2 064,12 €»The reference rate for a pensioner living with a spouse or registered partner.
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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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«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 conditions every residence title shares, which § 44 Abs. 1 Z 1 imports: accommodation that is usual for a family of that size, insurance that actually pays in Austria, and no prospect of becoming a charge on public funds.
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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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«Unbeschadet der sonstigen Voraussetzungen für die Erteilung des Aufenthaltstitels darf ein solcher nur dann erteilt werden, wenn ein aus dem Register nach Abs. 2 zugeordneter Quotenplatz zur Verfügung steht.»The quota bites on the grant, not on the application: the permit may only be issued while a place assigned from the register is free.
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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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«Die Bundesregierung erlässt über Vorschlag des Bundesministers für Inneres im Einvernehmen mit dem Hauptausschuss des Nationalrates eine Verordnung, mit der für jeweils ein Kalenderjahr die Anzahl der Aufenthaltstitel gemäß §§ 44 Abs. 1, 46 Abs. 1 Z 2, Abs. 4 und 5, 46a, 47 Abs. 4 und 49 Abs. 1 und 4 festgelegt wird (Niederlassungsverordnung).»The ordinance that sets the numbers, made for one calendar year at a time by the federal government with the agreement of the Nationalrat's main committee.
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«Im Jahr 2025 dürfen höchstens 5 616 quotenpflichtige Aufenthaltstitel gemäß § 13 Abs. 2 NAG erteilt werden.»The national ceiling for the quota year 2025.
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«§ 3. Diese Verordnung tritt mit Ablauf des Tages der Kundmachung in Kraft.»The ordinance enters into force at the end of the day it is promulgated. It was promulgated on 18 December 2025 and governs the year 2025.
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Practical notes
The income figures here are ours. Austria publishes a multiple and a reference rate, and the euro amount is the product of the two; where the reference rate is adjusted on 1 January, the threshold moves with it without anything in the NAG changing.
Income is measured net of regular outgoings. NAG § 11 Abs. 5 reduces it by rent, loan repayments, attachments and maintenance paid to people who do not live with you, which is why a gross figure on a bank statement is not the number the authority uses.
The quota ordinance for a year has repeatedly been made after the year began. The 2025 ordinance took effect on 18 December 2025, with thirteen days of the quota year left to run.
- consolidatesNiederlassungs- und Aufenthaltsgesetz, consolidated text as at 10 October 2026
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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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- consolidatesAllgemeines Sozialversicherungsgesetz § 293, consolidated text as at 10 October 2026
Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes, Bundeskanzleramt · consolidated to 2026-10-10
Known to be out of date. A RIS consolidation is not authentic. The authentic text is the one published in the Bundesgesetzblatt, and RIS prints each provision twice on the same page - once with its abbreviations and once with them spelled out - so a quotation is taken from one of the two renderings.
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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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- issuesNiederlassungsverordnung 2025, BGBl. II Nr. 309/2025
Bundesgesetzblatt authentisch ab 2004, Bundeskanzleramt
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The authentic electronic Bundesgesetzblatt, published on the same host as the consolidated collection but a different application. A document is at /Dokumente/BgblAuth/BGBLA_<year>_<part>_<number>/BGBLA_<year>_<part>_<number>.pdf, with an .html form beside it; the PDF carries the Bundeskanzleramt's electronic seal and the promulgation date on its first page. The collection is searchable by title or full text at Ergebnis.wxe?Abfrage=BgblAuth, and the result list prints BGBl number, promulgation date and short title in one table - which makes it the right place to establish that an instrument of a given name has or has not been promulgated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It starts in 2004. Anything older is in the scanned Bundesgesetzblatt collection, which is a different application and was not read. It is the authentic text as promulgated and carries no amendments: an ordinance read here says what it said on the day it was signed, and whether it is still in force is a question for the consolidated collection. It may not be cited for the current text of anything amended since. A search over it bounds a claim about what has been promulgated and nothing more: an absence in the result list is an absence in that collection from 2004 onwards, not in Austrian law. The PDFs use German legal abbreviations - a bare "Z" for Ziffer - which the project's fragmentation heuristic reads as broken text; the readings are intact and the one taken for Austria is cleared in reading-reviews.json.
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- issuesBundesgesetzblatt authentisch, title search for "Niederlassungsverordnung"
Bundesgesetzblatt authentisch ab 2004, Bundeskanzleramt
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The authentic electronic Bundesgesetzblatt, published on the same host as the consolidated collection but a different application. A document is at /Dokumente/BgblAuth/BGBLA_<year>_<part>_<number>/BGBLA_<year>_<part>_<number>.pdf, with an .html form beside it; the PDF carries the Bundeskanzleramt's electronic seal and the promulgation date on its first page. The collection is searchable by title or full text at Ergebnis.wxe?Abfrage=BgblAuth, and the result list prints BGBl number, promulgation date and short title in one table - which makes it the right place to establish that an instrument of a given name has or has not been promulgated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It starts in 2004. Anything older is in the scanned Bundesgesetzblatt collection, which is a different application and was not read. It is the authentic text as promulgated and carries no amendments: an ordinance read here says what it said on the day it was signed, and whether it is still in force is a question for the consolidated collection. It may not be cited for the current text of anything amended since. A search over it bounds a claim about what has been promulgated and nothing more: an absence in the result list is an absence in that collection from 2004 onwards, not in Austrian law. The PDFs use German legal abbreviations - a bare "Z" for Ziffer - which the project's fragmentation heuristic reads as broken text; the readings are intact and the one taken for Austria is cleared in reading-reviews.json.
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