{"id":3438,"date":"2023-06-05T13:15:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T11:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.migrant.at\/uncategorized\/vienna-integration-council\/"},"modified":"2024-09-25T10:58:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T08:58:12","slug":"vienna-integration-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.migrant.at\/en\/vienna-integration-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Vienna Integration Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_full-e35d4d7392d344ede5b92e9eb6686da9 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  first flex_column_div  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-liir7e4w-19a8b8801284b4dc67a8dfa038342842\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-liir7e4w-19a8b8801284b4dc67a8dfa038342842{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-liir7e4w-19a8b8801284b4dc67a8dfa038342842 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-liir7e4w-19a8b8801284b4dc67a8dfa038342842 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-liir7e4w-19a8b8801284b4dc67a8dfa038342842 av-special-heading-h1 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h1 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Vienna Integration Council calls for reform of the Citizenship Act and wants additional resources for the Viennese authority<\/h1><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-liir9ohp-42ee940f62aad2a07feff1216bf2ca49 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>The Vienna Integration Council (W.I.R.) presented its statement on citizenship and naturalization as part of a panel discussion. In the last 20 years, the number of naturalizations and the naturalization rate in Vienna has fallen sharply in comparison with other European countries, although immigration has led to significant population growth. More than one-third of the resident population is excluded from the right to vote, creating a significant democratic deficit. In addition, the restrictive legal situation also makes the integration process more difficult. Due to high legal hurdles and lengthy procedures, the positive effect would be nullified. In detail, the Vienna Integration Council advocates the following changes to the Citizenship Act at federal level:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Residence periods are to be shortened.<\/li>\n<li>Income hurdles are to be lowered.<\/li>\n<li>Dual citizenships should be accepted.<\/li>\n<li>Children born in Austria are to be granted Austrian citizenship automatically, provided that one parent has already resided legally in Austria for five years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  Further recommendations are made to the city and include more resources for the City of Vienna Department for Immigration and Citizenship (MA 35) in order to handle the procedures more efficiently and transparently. According to W.I.R., the reform process already started by the competent authority is already beginning to have an effect, but it is still calling for more measures to simplify and shorten procedures. In addition, the City of Vienna is to launch its own naturalization campaign as soon as the backlog of applications in the authority has been successfully dealt with. Furthermore, the Vienna Integration Council calls on the city government to lobby the federal government for an integration-friendly citizenship law and to build up political pressure. Excerpt from <a href=\"https:\/\/presse.wien.gv.at\/presse\/2023\/05\/31\/wiener-integrationsrat-restriktives-staatsbuergerschaftsgesetz-fuehrt-zu-demokratiedefizit-in-wien-und-erschwert-integration\">original &#8211; Vienna City Hall Correspondence<\/a>, May 31, 2023<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vienna Integration Council (W.I.R.) presented its statement on citizenship and naturalization during a panel discussion. In the last 20 years, the number of naturalizations and the naturalization rate in Vienna has fallen sharply in comparison with other European countries, although immigration has led to significant population growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.migrant.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.migrant.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.migrant.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrant.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrant.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrant.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.migrant.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrant.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrant.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}