Internationals
(full-degree)

Country

Albania, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Australia, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Cape Verde, Chile, China (Sonderverwaltungsgebiete Macau und Hongkong), Costa Rica, Colombia, Cyprus, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Fiji, Georgia, Grenada, Greece, Guatemala Guyana Honduras, India, Ireland, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea (Republic), Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malta, Marshall Islands, Morocco, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niue, Oman, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Rwanda, Russia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, South Africa, Spain, Suriname, Swaziland, Switzerland, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela

MCI undertakes no responsibility for the correctness and completeness of this information.

Certification

All relevant documents issued by the countries listed above need legalization of documents in the form of an apostille or e-apostille.
The apostille is issued by competent authorities in the contracting country. The diplomatic representation of a foreign country in Austria is under no circumstances authorized to do it. A list of responsible authorities in each respective contracting country can be found on the homepage of the HCCH (Hague conference on Private International Law).

The apostille has to be placed on the original document itself or on an allonge and certifies, thereby, the authenticity of the signature, the function of the person who has signed the document, and where appropriate, the originality of the seal or stamp on the document.

The contracting country determines which documents are considered to be public or private respectively. The apostille only applies to public documents. In the case of private documents, they have to be certified by, for example, the responsible educational authority or a notary in order to be recognized as a public document, subsequently, the document has to be attested by the apostille.

Translation

All relevant documents required for the application process that are not in German or English, have to be translated. The translation has to be conducted by a sworn and officially certified translator in the respective country or in Austria. The translation must be attached to the original document or to a legalized copy of it. All required stamps of legalization must be translated too.

Country

Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Germany, Finland, France, Italy, Croatia, Liechtenstein, North-Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Hungary

MCI undertakes no responsibility for the correctness and completeness of this information.

Certification

The countries listed above have concluded a bilateral agreement with Austria in regard to exemption from legalization. Consequently, none of the required documents that are relevant for the application process need legalization. The bilateral agreement is also valid for those documents that have been issued in the relevant country prior to the day the agreement came into force.

Translation

All relevant documents required for the application process that are not in German or English, have to be translated. The translation has to be conducted by a sworn and officially certified translator in the respective country or in Austria. The translation must be attached to the original document or to a legalized copy of it. All required stamps of legalization must be translated too.

Country

Algeria, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cambodia, Central African Republic, China (except Macao SAR and Hong Kong SAR), Egypt, Ethiopia, Dominican Republic, Djibouti, Eritrea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Holy See, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cuba, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kuwait, Laos (People's Democratic Republic of), Lebanon, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Yemen, Sovereign Order of Malta, Mauritania, Federated States of Micronesia, Mongolia, Nauru, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestinian Authority, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Zambia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, United Republic, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Togo, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Zimbabwe.

MCI undertakes no responsibility for the correctness and completeness of this information.

Certification

All relevant documents issued by the countries listed above need full diplomatic legalization, since these countries do not have any agreements with Austria. The legalization has to be placed on the original document.

The documents first have to pass the internal legalization procedure within the country in which they have been issued (this procedure is different in each country but the last authority definitely has to be the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the respective country) and then the documents have to be attested by the responsible Austrian authority in the respective country.

Translation

All relevant documents required for the application process that are not in German or English, have to be translated. The translation has to be conducted by a sworn and officially certified translator in the respective country or in Austria. The translation must be attached to the original document or to a legalized copy of it. All required stamps of legalization must be translated too.