Talk:Austrian nationality law

Naturalisation as an Austrian citizen is "discretionary"?
What, exactly, is meant by this statement? I assume a person doesn't have to become an Austrian citizen, even if he/she is eligible to be naturalized. Or does "discretionary" mean here that even if someone has satisfied all the legal eligibility requirements for naturalization, his/her application for citizenship can still be rejected by the Austrian government for whatever reason (or even for no good reason at all)? Richwales 06:03, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Question
My mother is an Austrian citizen. She acquired the citizenship after I was born (I was born in 1977). My Grandfather was Austrian but since my mother was not born in Austria she never "bothered" to apply for it until recently.
 * It's not that your mother applied for Austrian citizenship; she was already a citizen. It's just that she went through the process of having it formal recognized after you were born.

Does anybody know if what the rules are (if any) for me to obtain citizenship?
 * If your parents were married at the time of your birth, Austrian citizenship would not have been passed down to you from your mother. If your parents were *not* married at the time of your birth, then you are already Austrian, and would just need to go through the same process as your mother, to have it formally recognized.

Sebastian Kessel Talk 00:35, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Ive just read on the economist that investors can actually buy permanent residence that leads to citizenship. Why no mention of this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.120.169 (talk) 04:23, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Spouses of Austrian citizens
The text mentions that a settlement permit must have been held for at least six years but the Austrian citizen could also have returned to Austria after having exercised his/her treaty rights in another member state under EU law (Surinder Singh ruling) in which case the third-country spouse would hold a so-called Daueraufenthaltskarte. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Halx (talk • contribs) 08:49, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Dual citizenship
I think the text needs some clarification on children with a foreign parent. The requirement for Austrian citizenship is here that the foreign state must also follow ius sanguinis, i.e. the foreign citizenship is obtained automatically at birth. Halx (talk) 08:55, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Professors at Austrian universities
Can someone please confirm, possibly with reference to official documents, that this is still valid? There are two reason I have for thinking this has changed since 2008:


 * 1) The German version of wikipedia (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96sterreichische_Staatsb%C3%BCrgerschaft#Universit.C3.A4tsprofessor) seems to be saying that this was the case until 4 January 2008.**  (I am not fluent in German, so a German-speaker should confirm this)  In that article, there is a reference to a gazette, but, again, I'm afraid I don't have enough German to confirm this.
 * 2)  A document entitled "Loss of citizenship: trends and regualtions in Europe". (http://eudo-citizenship.eu/docs/Loss.pdf) On page 12, it also refers obliquely to this isue and the date of 2008: "for example until 2008 by accepting an appointment as professor at an Austrian university"

Kmasters0 (talk) 15:24, 12 September 2010 (UTC) - That means that he/she will no longer get citizen ship automatic. - Apparently, it was still correct as of 2003 (see "Mode A01" document in zipped material at, and see and page 95 of ). I haven't found "official documents" or references to "official documents" re this,  or anything at all on a change in 2008 beyond the http://eudo-citizenship.eu/docs/Loss.pdf source mentioned above -- perhaps that could serve as a supporting secondary source even without specific mention of "official documents", though. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 18:50, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I am a past Austrian Citizen and it is correct, since 2008 a Professor is not a Public servant but a privately employed person.

User:Michael.dobish (talk) -
 * 1)  I'm new to Wikipedia, but I can tell you that, as a native speaker of English and fluent speaker of German, the German Wiki is more up-to-date, and the footnotes 19 through 25 in the German article (which cover the question of acceptance of a professorship at an Austrian university) are all Austrian government documents, none of which exists in English translation as far as I know. If I've made mistakes in citing the sources of the German article, or if the rules discourage citation of sources in other languages, my apologies. However, the original (which I have translated completely myself) is unambiguous in this regard. Also, if there are officially sanctioned translations for certain terms, my own translations should be replaced with those. However, I thought the glaring anachronism of the older version of the article should be replaced quickly.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael.dobish (talk • contribs) 18:28, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

Citation 10 8 is incorrect in this article
Citation 10 8 seems to be something about landing F-35s on aircraft carriers. Not at all relevant to this article. If anyone knows what this was supposed to be, please replace it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.79.21.160 (talk) 23:55, 9 July 2017 (UTC)