Invitation letter
If you need an invitation letter please contact directly Mrs. Lisa Jesner from the Austrian Standards Institute (ASI).
Lisa Jesner: l.jesner@austrian-standards.at
Entering Austria
Online Pre-Travel-Clearance is mandatory!
When entering Austria from abroad in most of the cases an online Pre-Travel-Clearance is mandator
Further information: www.oesterreich.gv.at/en/themen/coronavirus_in_oesterreich/pre-travel-clearance.html
Pre-Travel Clearance form:
Visa exemption
If you hold a valid residential permit from another Schengen state or you are a national of one of the following countries, no visa is required for entry and stay in Austria of up to 90 within 180 days no visa is required.
The prerequisite for this is that you
- do not intend to stay in Austria for longer than the period specified in each case
- do not intend to engage in employment in Austria.
- Albanien*
- Andorra
- Antigua und Barbuda
- Argentinien
- Australien
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Bosnien- Herzegowina*
- Brasilien
- Brunei
- Chile
- Costa Rica
- Dominica
- El Salvador
- Georgien*
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Hong Kong (nur Inhaber der Pässe “Hong Kong Special Administrative Region” und
- „British National Overseas“)
- Israel
- Japan 6 Monate (gilt nur für Österreich!)
- Kanada
- Kiribati
- Kolumbien
- Republik Korea (Süd)
- Liechtenstein unbefristet
- Macau (nur Inhaber von Reisepässen der „Regiao Administrativa Especial de Macau“)
- Malaysia
- Marshallinseln
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Mikronesien
- Moldau*
- Monaco
- Montenegro*
- Neuseeland
- Nicaragua
- Nordmazedonien*
- Palau
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Salomonen
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Schweiz
- Serbien*
- Seychellen
- Singapur
- St. Christopher und Nevis (St. Kitts and Nevis)
- St. Lucia
- St. Vincent und die Grenadinen
- Taiwan (nur Inhaber von Reisepässen mit Personalausweisnummer)
- Timor-Leste (Osttimor)
- Tonga
- Trinidad und Tobago
- Tuvalu
- Ukraine*
- Uruguay
- Vanuatu
- Vatikanstaat
- Venezuela
- Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
- Vereinigtes Königreich
only valid for holders of a biometric passport | as of August 2021
