11,000+ immigrants obtained Austrian citizenship in H1 of 2024

Highlights: 11,000+ people received Austrian Citizenship in the H1 of 2024

• Around 11,050 people were granted Austrian Citizenship in the first six months of 2024.
• The number of citizenships offered in the H1 of 2024 is 66% more than in 2023.  
• Statistics Austria suggests that a majority of new Austrian citizens were residents in the country compared to those living abroad.
• Data reveals that most naturalized immigrants were Syrians, Turks, and Afghanis.

 

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11,050 individuals became Austrian Citizens in the first half of 2024

From January to June, 11,050 people were naturalized in the first half of 2024, which is 66% more than in 2023. Data shows that most of the people who acquired Citizenship were Nazi regime descendants, Syrians and Turk nationals. The Nazi descendants amounted to the overall 37% of the people who became red-white-red passport holders.

 

Around 74.7% of the people with Citizenship were naturalized via legal entitlement, 5.5% were on a discretionary basis, and 19.8% had their naturalization extended. Statistics Austria revealed that a majority of the new citizens, 6,658, were residents in the country compared to the others living abroad.

 

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List of Nationalities that obtained Austrian Citizenship the most in 2024

Syrians were among the top nationalities that received the most number of citizenships, with around 11.1% of the overall 6,925 people. Nearly half the people who were naturalized during this period were women, with 48.6%, with 1/3 of them below the age of 18. One-fifth of people (2,267) who were newly naturalized were born in Austria.

Nationality	Number of citizenships
Syrians	1223
Turks	695
Afghanis	540

 

As per data, 3,244 people received Citizenship after residing in the country for at least six years, while 261 people received Citizenship after living there for 15+ years.  

 

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