rejected and subsidiary protection is no longer available under Articles 2, 3 or 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights and appeal rights have been exhausted, expulsion procedures will be initiated. 432 An accelerated expulsion order will be put in place if it is deemed in the public interest.433 If the Agency issues an expulsion order, the asylum seeker must leave Austria immediately.434 6. Protection under the Statelessness Conventions Austria is a party to both the 1954 Stateless Persons and the 1961 Statelessness Conventions.435 In the case of a stateless asylum seeker, “country of origin” is considered by the court to be the applicant’s place of “former habitual residence.”436 UNHCR reported that at the end of 2006, all 501 stateless persons residing in Austria held Austrian residence permits.437 As of 2013, UNHCR reports the number of stateless individuals in Austria as 588.438 Austria also provides Austrian citizenship to stateless individuals who were stateless at birth.439 In order to obtain citizenship, a stateless person must reside in Austria for ten years and have a certain level of competency in the German language.440 7. Links • • • • • Asylkoordination Austria: http://www.asyl.at/ Federal Act Concerning the Granting of Asylum: http://www.refworld.org/ docid/46adc62c2.html Netzwerk Asylanwalt (network of asylum lawyers): http://www.asylanwalt. at/ [German] Deserteurs- und Flüchtlingsberatung (NGO): http://www.deserteursberatung. at/info/en/ Caritas Austria (Catholic organization, operates i.a. shelters for asylum seekers and provides legal and social counselling): http://www.caritas.at/ hilfe-einrichtungen/fluechtlinge/beratung-und-vertretung/ [German] 432 Ibid., Chapter 4, Section 1, Article 27. Ibid., Chapter 4, Section 1, Article 27(3). 434 Ibid., Chapter 1, Section 5, Article 10(4). 435 UNTC, “Status of Treaties: Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons;” UNTC, “Status of Treaties: Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.” 436 Ibid., Chapter 1, Article 2(1)(17). 437 Katherine Southwick and M. Lynch, Nationality Rights for All: A Progress Report and Global Survey on Statelessness (Refugees International, March 11, 2009), 44, http://www.refworld.org/ docid/49be193f2.html. 438 UNHCR, “2014 UNHCR Regional Operations Profile - Northern, Western, Central and Southern Europe - Austria,” accessed November 14, 2014, http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e48e256.html. CHANGE THE TEXT TO “As of January 2014, UNHCR reports the number of stateless individuals in Austria as 604.” 439 Southwick and Lynch, Nationality Rights for All: A Progress Report and Global Survey on Statelessness, 44. 440 Ibid. 433 Survey of Protection at the National Level 89