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Austria Job Seeker Visa

If you would like to work and Settle in Europe then Austria Job Seeker Visa is the best option for workers you. Austria's flexible immigration model, the Red-White-Red Card, offers qualified third-country and their family members a single permit for working and settling permanently in Austria.



You can find important information on the Red-White-Red Card, on general immigration requirements and on Austrian working and living conditions.
Use the point’s calculator to check whether you would fulfil the admission criteria.
Criteria-based Immigration to Austria - Red-White-Red Card



You are a qualified worker and citizen of a third country (a country outside the EU) seeking to live and work in Austria. In this case you need the Red-White-Red Card. Your family members can apply for the Red-White-Red Card plus. The Red-White-Red Card is issued for a period of 24 months and entitles you as the holder to fixed-term settlement and employment by the employer specified in your application. You are eligible for a Red-White-Red Card if you belong to one of the following groups:

 

  1. Very Highly Qualified Workers
  2. Skilled Workers in Shortage Occupations
  3. Other Key Workers
  4. Graduates of Austrian Universities and Colleges of Higher Education
  5. Self-employed Key Workers
  6. Start-up Founders

Austria Job Seeker Visa

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Eligibility

As a Highly Qualified Worker from a third country, you have two options:
1. You can either enter Austria under a Job Seeker Visa to look for work here.



If you receive an employment offer during the validity period of the visa, you can apply for a Red-
White-Red card at the competent residence authority in Austria.



2. You may apply for a Red-White-Red card with the competent Austrian representation in your home
country or your country of residence, provided that you have received an employment offer. As a
third-country citizen with a very high level of qualification, you may apply for a six-month residence

 

  1. Jobseeker Visa: € 150
  2. Red-White-Red Card:
  • Application: € 120
  • Granting: € 20
  • Costs of personalisation (fingerprints, scan of photography and signature): € 20


Documentation

To apply for the Job Seeker Visa, you have to submit the following documents:

  • Valid travel document (e.g. passport)
  • Birth certificate or similar document
  • Photo (dimensions: 45x35mm) which is not older than six months
  • Proof of locally customary accommodation (e.g. lease contracts, preliminary agreement on tenancy rights or ownership evidence)
  • Proof of health insurance covering all risks (compulsory health insurance or equivalent insurance policy)
  • Proof of adequate means of subsistence

You have to submit the following documents for examination of the individual criteria under the points system (see above):

1. Special qualifications and skills
Graduation

  1. Document furnishing proof of successful completion of a four-year programme at a university or another institution of tertiary education
  2. Document reflecting the status of the university or other institution of tertiary education
  3. Document furnishing proof of successful completion of a programme in a MINT subject (= mathematics, informatics, natural sciences, technology)
  4. Document furnishing proof of habilitation

Gross annual salary in a senior management position

  1. Tax assessment notice or pay certificate
  2. Confirmation by the previous employer that you worked in a senior management position
  3. Proof that the company is listed on the stock exchange or positive report from the competent Austrian foreign trade office about its activities or business segment

Research and innovation activities

  1. Proof of scientific publications, stating titles and sources
  2. Certificate issued by a university or research institution that you worked in R&D or academic scientific teaching
  3. Proof of patent application(s) through extracts from national or regional patent registers

Recognized awards and prizes

  1. Document proving the conferral of the award or prize


2. Work experience

  1. Testimonials and work certificates


3. Language skills

  1. Language diploma or language course certificate at the A1 or A2 levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.German language diplomas and certificates may in particular be obtained from the following institutions: ÖSD, Goethe-Institut, Telc GmbH, Austrian Integration Fund (ÖIF)The following diplomas and certificates in particular are recognised as evidence of proficiency in English: Cambridge Certificate, TELC, IELTS diploma, TOEIC diploma, TOEFL diploma.


4. Studies in Austria

  1. Course record book and related examination certificates
  2. Document reflecting the successful completion of a programme of studies in Austria



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