Vienna. According to the latest data released by Statistik Austria, 19,939 people were granted Austrian citizenship last year. General Manager Tobias Thomas announced that this corresponds to a decrease of 3.2 percent compared to 2022. The decline was reportedly caused by a decline in naturalization of victims of National Socialism and their descendants (minus 17.7 percent). The number of naturalizations of persons persecuted by the Nazi regime and their descendants reached 7,975 in 2023. Of these, 98.9 percent lived abroad, led by Israel (4,255), the United States (1,620) and the United Kingdom (1,094).
More than three-quarters of all naturalizations in 2023 were based on a legal right (15,304 people or 76.8 percent). These include 5,822 people who have lived in Austria for at least six years and were naturalized for reasons that require special consideration, 21 politically persecuted people and their 7,954 grandchildren, and 430 long-term integrated people who have lived in Austria for at least 15 years. There were people. Citizenship was granted optionally to 1,002 people, 940 of whom were granted after at least ten years of residence. A total of 3,633 people were naturalized under the title of extension of citizenship.
When we look at those residing in Austria, we see that there is a 9.2 percent increase in naturalization compared to the previous year. About a fifth of the 11,898 people residing in Austria were born here (3,836 or 19.2 percent). One in every two people was a woman (50.3 percent), and one third was under the age of 18 (32.7 percent). 38.6 percent of Austrian residents and naturalized citizens were previously citizens of Syria (1,865 people), Turkey (1,141 people), Bosnia and Herzegovina (803 people) and Afghanistan (788 people). ( news)
2024-02-15 15:05:50