Belong Austria helps you track your journey from residence to Austrian citizenship.
Belong Austria tracks how far you are from Austrian citizenship. It is honest about the part you control and the part you do not. Below is what each tab does.
Choose the classic Midnight dark look or the new Mediterranean light theme with a warm coral accent. Switch any time from the You tab. Everything else stays exactly the same.
The Dashboard splits the journey into the part you control and the part you do not. The bar shows how close you are, and below it Belong Austria lists the routes open to you: standard naturalisation after ten years under section 10 StbG, the six year route for strong integration — German at B2, or B1 plus three years of sustained voluntary work or of work in education, health or the social sector — and the six year route for the spouse of an Austrian citizen, which also asks for five years of marriage in a common household. Each route carries its own status. Austria decides citizenship through your provincial citizenship authority, in Vienna the MA 35, so your route reaches a real finish line.
What if sits on the Dashboard and answers that without touching your file. Flip the Staatsbürgerschaftsprüfung to passed, add a marriage to an Austrian citizen, spend six months abroad, and watch your finish line move under the real Austrian rules. It runs on a copy of your situation, so nothing you try is saved and nothing you entered changes.
Path opens your route and lays out every requirement in order. A green tick is met and a blue dot is in progress: ten years of lawful and uninterrupted residence with at least five settled, German at level B1 shown by a certificate or the integration agreement's Module 2, the Staatsbürgerschaftsprüfung, a secure livelihood of your own without social assistance, and an irreproachable record. Each item explains the rule in plain language and links to the official source, oesterreich.gv.at or the BMI's Mein Österreich portal.
Standing watches the moving ground, your time abroad and your record. Austrian law sets a real budget: up to 20 percent of your required period may be spent abroad — 730 days across ten years — before your uninterrupted residence is at risk, so Belong Austria counts every logged trip against it and tells you honestly how much room remains. Your record sits here too with a plain read on the irreproachable record requirement.
Practice trains you for the Staatsbürgerschaftsprüfung, the real citizenship knowledge test: 18 questions in 120 minutes, run by your provincial citizenship authority. Full mock tests in the official shape under the real pass rules, quick rounds, chapter drills on the democratic order and the history of Austria, and a deck that re-asks what you got wrong. The questions are in German, like the real sitting, with an English study translation one tap away — and the official BMI Mein Österreich material sits one tap further.
News is getting a partner. A collaboration with The Local Austria is in the works: the immigration and citizenship news that actually affects your path, filtered to Austria, in plain language and delivered inside the app. Until it lands, the News tab says exactly that — and nothing pretends to be live before it is.
You is where every number comes from. Set the month you became resident and a short list of honest toggles: settled residence status, marriage to an Austrian citizen, your citizenship background, the language exam, the knowledge test and self support. Change one and the Dashboard updates right away. Your appearance choice lives here too, Midnight or Mediterranean with one tap, and so does the legal disclaimer, because Belong Austria tracks the rules but does not give legal advice.
A Belong Austria account arrives in Q3 2026, together with the web app: sign in with your email and use the same subscription in any browser. On your iPhone the tracker stays on your device. What you enter on the web will be stored on our servers, so it is waiting at your next sign-in.