Student Visa for Austria

You will apply for your Visa D at an in-person appointment with a designated VFS Global location that serves your jurisdiction.

At your appointment, you will bring your valid passport and supplemental documents. You will also be required to provide biometrics, or fingerprints, at your in-person appointment.

More specific information about this process is available in your MyIESabroad account once you are accepted to a program.

In the United States, you will apply through one of VFS Global's locations in Chicago, Houston, Miami, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Washington, D.C. Each location serves a specific geographic region called a "jurisdiction." The application center that serves your jurisdiction is where you will apply for your Austrian student visa. Some students may have multiple options, while others will have only one.

To determine which application center(s) you can apply through, use our Austrian Jurisdiction and Contact Information sheet.

You can only apply for your visa within 180 days before your program starts. Additionally, it takes up to 8 weeks for the consulate to process your visa. You cannot apply until you have received your IES Abroad visa letters, however, which will be issued after your acceptance into the program.

In short, the earliest you can apply for your Visa D is 180 days before your program starts, and the latest you can apply is 6 weeks before your program starts.

The fee for an Austrian Visa D has been known to change frequently.

See the Latest Visa D Fee