Portrait: Elmar Drabek

Mag Elmar Drabek, BA

 
Partner

elmar@eoslawyers.at
+43 1 391 1193 - 10

German (mother tongue), English, French, Spanish

Curriculum

  • eos, Partner, since 06/2022
  • DORDA, Partner, 2013-2022
  • DORDA, Attorney, 2009-2013
  • University of Vienna, BA in Translation and Interpretation (German, English, French), 2010
  • DORDA, Associate, 2004-2009
  • Caritas Austria, Project Leader Asylum and Immigration Law, 2003-2004
  • Caritas Austria, Project Lawyer, 2000-2002
  • Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University, Introduction to the US Legal System, 2001
  • University of Vienna, LLM 1999

Memberships

  • ABIL (American Business Immigration Lawyers)
  • Visalaw International
  • AILA (American Immigration Lawyers Association), International Associate
  • IBA (International Bar Association)

Selected presentations and panel discussions

  • Permit to travel: travellers in a new world of travel authorisation, Annual Conference of the International Bar Association, Mexico City, 19.9.2024
  • Global Migration in Times of Conflict: How Nation States Have Responded to the Ukraine Crisis, 2022 AILA Border Issues Virtual Conference, 31.3.2022
  • European Union Migration in a Global Context: labour demand, international cooperation and nationalist pressures, 9th Biennial IBA Global Immigration Conference, London, 1.11.2019
  • Mobility compliance management: how to get the message across, Annual Conference of the International Bar Association, Rom, 8.10.2018
  • What future for EU and Schengen border controls, 8th Biennial IBA Global Immigration Conference, London, 17.11.2017
  • Citizens of the world: a review of which countries do/don’t permit dual citizenship, Annual Conference of the International Bar Association, Sydney, 11.10.2017
  • Welcome to our country! But please, put down that job application, Annual Conference of the International Bar Association, Washington, 19.9.2016
  • Show me the Money – the Global Boom in Investor Immigration Programs, AILA Annual Conference on Immigration Law, Las Vegas, 22.6.2016
  • The current European immigration scene. Blue card revisited., 7th Biennial IBA Global Immigration Conference, London, 20.11.2015
  • Current European immigration scene – applying the EU Blue Card: are we getting mobility of the highly skilled employee?, 6th Biennial IBA Global Immigration Conference, London, 22.11.2013

Selected publications and articles

  • Austrian Immigration Law, Buchkapitel in: Corporate Immigration Law – A Practitioner’s Guide, Oxford University Press (2012)
  • Fragen kostet nichts, kann aber Aufenthaltstitel retten (Die Presse, Rechtspanorama, 31.1.2022)
  • Private Client 2018, Getting the deal through (2017)
  • "Rot-Weiß-Rot-Karte": Zuwanderung "light"? (WirtschaftsBlatt, 16.11.2011)
  • Erleichterungen für Schlüsselkräfte (WirtschaftsBlatt, 5.3.2008)