Last year, exactly 20,606 people received Austrian nationality. That is an increase of 27.4 percent compared to 2021. If you compare the figures with those before the pandemic, that is almost double (plus 94.3 percent compared to 2019). 9,707 naturalized persons have their place of residence abroad.
This also explains the strong increase. This is mainly due to the naturalizations of people persecuted by the Nazi regime and their descendants, which accounted for almost half of naturalizations in 2022, explains Tobias Thomas, Director General of Statistics Austria. People naturalized under this title usually hold Israeli, American, or British citizenship.
Syrians and Turks lead the statistics
For people living in Austria, the increase in naturalizations was only twelve percent. Citizens from Syria and Turkey were most often granted citizenship here. If you compare last year’s figures with those of 2011, the number of people of Asian descent (minus Turkey) has increased ninefold. Almost exactly half of the naturalizations in 2022 went to women.
Plus in Carinthia, minus in Salzburg
In eight states, more people will have naturalized in 2022 than in the previous year. The relative increases were highest in Carinthia (plus 41.9 percent to 552 naturalizations). In Salzburg (-0.6 percent to 487) there were fewer naturalizations than last year.
Nearly four-fifths of all naturalizations in 2022 were based on a legal action. Of these, 5,229 people were naturalized after at least six years of residence in Austria and for reasons that are particularly worthwhile (e.g. proven knowledge of German and permanent integration, birth in Austria, EEA nationality or right of asylum).
Source: Krone
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