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.

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. On these pages, you can find important information on the Red-White-Red Card, on general immigration requirements and on Austrian working and living ...

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.

If you are a key employee (manager, specialist and trainee employee with a university degree) who enters Austria in the framework of an intra-corporate transfer from a third country, you will be issued a residence permit as an intra-corporate transfer ("ICT"), provided you meet the …

Third country nationals, i.e. persons, who are not EEA citziens or Swiss nationals, need a residence permit for Austria, when they plan to stay longer than six months. There are different types of residence permits.

2020年7月1日 · Workers posted for up to four months require a posting permit (Entsendebewilligung), whereas an employment permit (Beschäftigungsbewilligung) is needed for periods exceeding four months. Regardless of the duration of posting, an employment permit is always required in construction.

As a registered Regular Seasonal Worker you will be issued a seasonal employment permit outside of the quota and without a labour market test. This permit is issued for a duration of up to six months. It is possible to receive several permits per calendar year and sector.

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Here you can find the list of Austria-wide shortage occupations and regional shortage occupations for 2025: Please note: The AMS Profession Information System (Berufsinformationssystem - BIS) offers detailed information on each profession (e.g. job description, salary, training).

The EU Blue Card entitles you to fixed-term settlement and employment with a specific employer. It is issued for a validity of 24 months. You can also work self-employed, if this additional employment is subsidiary to your main employment and all other legal requirements are fulfilled.