Know where you stand.

What stands between me and the decision?

Path opens your route and lays out every requirement in order. A green tick is met and a coral dot is in progress: lawful uninterrupted residence, a settled residence status, German at B1, the Staatsbürgerschaftsprüfung, a secure livelihood and an irreproachable record. Each item explains the rule in plain language and links to the official source, the StbG on ris.bka.gv.at, oesterreich.gv.at or the federal Mein Österreich material. The test facts sit here too, and the full Practice tab is one tap away.

New Stage one: Daueraufenthalt – EU. Path now has two stages. Stage one lists the requirements of Daueraufenthalt – EU under § 45 NAG, counts your years and lets you tick off the rest, with the Blue Card rule and the fee underneath. Citizenship does not ask for the title itself, but holding it shows the five settled years that citizenship does ask for.

New Never miss a permit renewal. Add the day your residence permit ends and the Dashboard counts down to it. You can apply to extend in the last three months. While the authority decides you keep the same rights, work included. Apply after it ends and it counts as a first application. A reminder comes the day the three months open and again four weeks before the end.

The app is just as plain about the biggest decision of all: Austria generally does not allow dual citizenship. As a rule you give up your previous nationality before Austrian citizenship is granted, with exceptions only where that is impossible or unreasonable. Belong Austria says so up front, because it can change whether the whole journey is worth it to you.

Every requirement can carry the evidence for it: a language certificate, a residence permit, a payslip, a test result. Note when a document expires and that date joins What's coming a month ahead, so a certificate never lapses quietly while you are waiting. Documents stay on the phone you added them on. On iPhone they are encrypted by iOS while it is locked; on Android they will sit in the app's own private storage. On both they are kept out of the backup, so a restored phone will not bring them back, and you should keep your own copy of anything hard to replace. Belong Austria never uploads them and never sees them.

What is waiting at the end?

Passport is the reason for all the rest: the document your road leads to. The real cover in colour with the facts that matter beside it: validity, fee, where to apply and dual citizenship. Every figure is taken from the issuing authority's own published pages, dated and linked to the source.

Add your name, and a photo, and the passport carries them as the holder's. A pill under the cover says when you could apply, at the earliest, from the same figures your Dashboard reads, and the tab tells you what makes this passport particular: Österreich in Braille on the cover, the red-white-red flag in the tilt image that turns into the expiry date and a QR code anyone can check with the free CHECK-AT app. Valid ten years for adults, 112 euros, 148 euros express and 326 euros for the one-day express, applied for at any Passbehörde, your Bezirkshauptmannschaft or Magistrat. And as a rule Austria asks you to give up your previous nationality first: dual citizenship is generally not allowed.