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If you do not yet have a job offer, you can come to Austria to look for work for six months on a Job-Seeker Visa. 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.
Points calculator. The Red-White-Red Card scheme regulates the immigration of qualified third-country nationals to Austria according to a criteria-based model. In order to receive a Red-White-Red Card, the applicant has to achieve the sufficient amount of points (e.g. for education, professional experience, age, language skills).
If you qualify as a very highly qualified worker and you have not yet found an employer in Austria, you may apply for a six-month residence visa for your job search (Job Seeker Visa). If you find a job matching your qualification during the validity period of your visa, you may apply for the Red-White-Red Card for Very Highly Qualified Workers.
Welcome to the Federal Government‘s Official Information Website on Migration to Austria! Austria's flexible immigration model, the Red-White-Red Card, offers qualified third-country workers and their family members a single permit for working and settling permanently in Austria.
Here you can find the list of Austria-wide shortage occupations and regional shortage occupations for 2024: Please note: The AMS Profession Information System (Berufsinformationssystem - BIS) offers detailed information on each profession (e.g. job description, salary, training).
List on all documents that are required for the application for the job seeker visa and the Red-White-Red Card.
The Red-White-Red Card allows you to settle temporarily in Austria and to work for the employer specified in your application. You can obtein a Red-White-Red Card if you have graduated from an Austrian university, university of applied sciences or an accredited private university.
The following documents must be presented at the time of your visa application: • Valid travel document (passport) • Birth certificate or equivalent document
Austria-wide shortage occupations. Regional shortage occupations. Other Key Workers. Regular Workers in Tourism, Agriculture and Forestry. Self-employed Key Workers. Start-up Founders. EU Blue Card. Red-White-Red Card plus. Family reunification.
Diploma programmes (Diplomstudien) and programmes according to the Bologna structure from a recognized university or university of applied science (Fachhochschule) are both recognized. Formal recognition (nostrification) of the foreign degree in Austria is not required.
