Residence Permit – Pupil
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Aufenthaltsbewilligung für Schüler as of 2026-08-12[8][11] NAG § 63 and § 8 Abs. 1 Z 12 name the permission. |
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| Official name (English) | Residence Permit – Pupil as of 2026-08-12[3][12] Official English usage of the administering portal and of oesterreich.gv.at, which render the title as „Aufenthaltsbewilligung – Schüler“. |
| Legal basis | NAG § 63, with NAG § 70 for certified non-school educational institutions and NAG § 20 Abs. 1 for validity as of 2026-08-12[6][8][12] |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2026-08-12[11] An Aufenthaltsbewilligung under NAG § 8 Abs. 1 Z 12 — temporary residence without an intention to settle. |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | EEA, EFTA as of 2026-08-12[1][2] |
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| Minimum age | 6 as of 2026-08-12[12] oesterreich.gv.at: the pupil must have completed their sixth year of life. |
| Criminal-record condition | No as of 2026-08-12[3][4] Austrian residence law imposes no clean-criminal-record condition as such. NAG § 11 Abs. 1 lists the mandatory grounds of refusal and none of them is a conviction in general: the only conviction-based ground is Z 6, a final penalty in the last twelve months for circumventing border control or unlawful entry. A criminal record can still defeat an application through the public-interest test in NAG § 11 Abs. 2 Z 1, which is why migration.gv.at records that many authorities ask for a police-record extract not older than three months with a first application. So the answer here is "no" in a narrow sense: a clean record is not a condition of this permit, but a conviction can still cost an applicant the permit. |
Permit terms
| Initial duration | 12 months as of 2026-08-12[6][8] NAG § 20 Abs. 1: twelve months, § 63 specifying no longer period. |
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| How the initial term is set | fixed |
| Renewable | Yes as of 2026-08-12[8] NAG § 63 Abs. 3 governs extension and conditions it on evidence of school success. |
| Work rights | hours capped as of 2026-08-12[3][8] NAG § 63 Abs. 2 refers work rights to the AuslBG, and the activity must not impair school education as the exclusive purpose of residence. migration.gv.at: a pupil needs a Beschäftigungsbewilligung, available for up to 20 hours a week without a labour-market test, including for marginal employment. |
Permanent residence and citizenship
Requirements
| Enrolment status required | admitted as of 2026-08-12[3][8] A written confirmation of admission is required. NAG § 63 Abs. 1 lists the qualifying institutions: ordinary pupils of a public school, of a private school with public status or of a statute school with public status; pupils of a certified non-school educational institution under § 70; extraordinary pupils on a first permission; pupils of a private school whose public status was granted in the preceding school year and reapplied for; pupils of a school for health care and nursing or a nursing-assistance course under the GuKG; pupils of a school for social-care professions; and pupils of the higher and specialist schools for nursing and social care under the SchOG. |
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| Means requirement | EUR 722.58 per month as of 2026-08-12[3] |
| Work-hours cap | 20 as of 2026-08-12[3] migration.gv.at: a Beschäftigungsbewilligung for up to 20 hours a week is available without a labour-market test. |
| Post-study route exists | No as of 2026-08-12[8][9] NAG § 63 provides no job-search or graduate follow-on permission. The twelve-month job-search extension in NAG § 64 Abs. 4 is confined to holders of the student permission who have completed a programme under § 64 Abs. 1 Z 2, 3, 5 or 7. |
Family inclusion
| Family members may be included | No as of 2026-08-12[3][10] NAG § 69 Abs. 2 expressly excludes family members of a holder of an Aufenthaltsbewilligung for pupils (§ 63) from the derived „Familiengemeinschaft“ permission, alongside Betriebsentsandte, Selbständige, certain Sonderfälle, Sozialdienstleistende, Freiwillige and Grenzgänger. This is a sourced prohibition, not an absence of provision. |
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Your next step
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Verification
| Sources cited | 12 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 12 |
| Oldest as-of date | 2026-08-12 |
| Newest as-of date | 2026-08-12 |
| Reviewed on | 2026-08-17 |
| Schema version | 1.1 |
Sources
- [1] Familienzusammenführung — family reunification: definition of family member, which title each sponsor category yields, the quota rule, 'Deutsch vor Zuzug' A1 requirement, 2026 equalisation supplement reference rates, fees
migration.gv.at — joint portal of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection and the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs · official portal · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-12 · Archived copy - [2] Permanent immigration — Red-White-Red Card groups and general requirements for issuing residence permits (incl. the equalisation supplement reference rate from 1 January 2026)
migration.gv.at — joint portal of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection and the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs · official portal · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-12 - [3] Temporärer Aufenthalt — the Aufenthaltsbewilligung (temporary residence permission) catalogue: general conditions, 2026 equalisation supplement reference rates including the reduced rates for pupils and students, labour-market access for pupils and students
migration.gv.at — joint portal of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection and the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs · official portal · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-12 · Archived copy - [4] NAG § 11 — Allgemeine Voraussetzungen für einen Aufenthaltstitel (incl. Abs. 5: subsistence measured against the § 293 ASVG reference rates)
Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (RIS), Bundeskanzleramt · statute · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-12 - [5] NAG § 13 — Niederlassungsverordnung (the annual quota ordinance and the exhaustive list of quota-bound residence titles)
Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (RIS), Bundeskanzleramt · statute · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-12 - [6] NAG § 20 — Gültigkeitsdauer von Aufenthaltstiteln (12-month default, three-year issue after Module 1, five-year long-term-resident document, EEA absence rule)
Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (RIS), Bundeskanzleramt · statute · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-12 - [7] NAG § 45 — Aufenthaltstitel „Daueraufenthalt – EU“
Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (RIS), Bundeskanzleramt · statute · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-12 - [8] NAG § 63 — Aufenthaltsbewilligung für Schüler
Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (RIS), Bundeskanzleramt · statute · Tier 1 · Published 2023-12-31 · Accessed 2026-08-12 - [9] NAG § 64 — Aufenthaltsbewilligung als Student (version in force from 7 August 2026)
Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (RIS), Bundeskanzleramt · statute · Tier 1 · Published 2026-08-07 · Accessed 2026-08-12 - [10] NAG § 69 — Aufenthaltsbewilligung Familiengemeinschaft
Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (RIS), Bundeskanzleramt · statute · Tier 1 · Published 2025-12-01 · Accessed 2026-08-12 - [11] Niederlassungs- und Aufenthaltsgesetz (NAG) § 8 — Arten und Form der Aufenthaltstitel (consolidated federal law, version in force on the access date)
Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (RIS), Bundeskanzleramt · statute · Tier 1 · Published 2026-08-07 · Accessed 2026-08-12 - [12] „Aufenthaltsbewilligung – Schüler“ – Antrag — pupil residence permission: eligible schools, minimum age six, EUR 218 application fee
oesterreich.gv.at — Austrian federal digital-services portal (content responsibility: Federal Ministry of the Interior) · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2026-08-10 · Accessed 2026-08-12