Austrian Citizenship
Austrian Citizenship for Grandchildren
The new legislation passed by the Austrian parliament in September 2019 grants Austrian citizenship for grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Jews who fled Austria and/or survivors of the extermination camps. The law went into effect on the first of September, 2020. We specialize in obtaining foreign citizenships for our clients, including Austrian citizenship for descendants of…
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Which Israelis can get Austrian citizenship? Many Austrian Jews escaped the country when it was annexed into the German Reich in 1938. Some Jews managed to survive their imprisonment and attempted extermination until the war ended in 1945. According to the new law, their descendants are also entitled to Austrian citizenship. In this article, attorney Michael…
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Last September, the Austrian Parliament announced that it would facilitate and ease the acquisition of Austrian citizenship for Holocaust survivors and their descendants. Thousands of descendants of Austrian Holocaust survivors, living in Israel and abroad, will now be able to obtain this citizenship without fear of losing any additional existing citizenship. Their family members will…
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