All posts in Austrian Citizenship

The two main routes to Austrian citizenship through ancestry, and how to work out which one applies.

The official definition of persecuted persons and direct descendants under Section 58c of the Austrian Citizenship Act.

How the Section 58c declaration works: where it is filed, which documents are required and how they must be certified.

How to build the chain of documents that links you to an Austrian or persecuted ancestor, using Austrian record sources.

The official rules for acquiring Austrian citizenship at birth, by birth date, marital status of the parents and which parent was Austrian.

What the official pages say about holding two citizenships with Austria, and about losing Austrian citizenship.

An overview of the general conditions for Austrian naturalisation, for readers whose ancestry does not give a descent claim.