Austria: Information for stateless people and those at risk of statelessness fleeing Ukraine

The European Commission confirms that a lack of travel documents or medical documents (certificate of vaccination, COVID-19 test) should not be an obstacle to entering the EU throughout the Ukraine crisis, and the Austrian police have been ordered to take a flexible approach on documentation and standard of proof. [...] ID card, driving licence, residence permit) if possible, but police must take a flexible approach on documentation and standard of proof • Stateless people are advised to take any documents they may have to facilitate their access to protection or a route to regularisation in Austria (i.e., residence permit, proof of international protection in Ukraine, application under a relevant procedure, or a. [...] People who are not eligible for temporary protection or international protection may enter Austria on humanitarian grounds and are temporarily allowed to stay, but the law requires that they organise onward travel to their ‘country of nationality/habitual residence’. [...] Refugee status Subsidiary Protection Temporary Protection What is it? Protection under 1951 Protection for people who Temporary protection for Convention Relating to the do not meet 1951 eligible people displaced Status of Refugees Convention definition but from Ukraine would be subject to serious risk of harm upon return Can stateless Yes Yes Yes, if they meet eligibility and/or criteria (i.e., b. [...] Statelessness determination should be conducted either in parallel with or following the refugee status determination, with due regard to the primacy of the asylum claim and the principle of confidentiality for refugees in statelessness determination procedures.