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Entry, residence & working

• Entry
  • Do I require a visa?
  • Where and how can I apply for a visa?
  • Short-term stay
    • Swiss citizens
    • Citizens of the EU/EFTA
    • Third-country nationals
  • Entry/Exit System (EES)
  • Interoperability (IOP)
  • Integrated Border Management (IBM)
  • Advance Passenger Information (API)
    • Information for air carriers
  • Carrier Sanctions (CASA)
    • Key legal foundations
    • Administrative proceedings in cases of possible violations of the duty of care
    • Administrative proceedings relating to the duty to provide data
  • Visa Application Form
  • Data protection
  • FAQ – Entry
• Residence
  • EU/EFTA nationals
    • L EU/EFTA permit (Short-term residents)
    • B EU/EFTA permit (Resident foreign nationals)
    • C EU/EFTA permit (Settled foreign nationals)
    • Ci EU/EFTA permit (Resident foreign nationals with gainful employment)
    • G EU/EFTA permit (Cross-border commuters)
  • Non-EU/EFTA nationals
    • Permit Ci (residence permit with gainful employment)
    • Permit G (cross-border commuter permit)
    • Permit F (provisionally admitted foreigners)
    • Permit N (permit for asylum-seekers)
    • Permit S (people in need of protection)
  • Biometric residence permits for foreign nationals
  • "Sans-Papiers" in Switzerland
• Working in Switzerland
  • EU/EFTA nationals
  • Non-EU/EFTA nationals
    • Basis for admission to the Swiss employment market
    • Procedure
      • Application documents
  • United Kingdom
    • UK nationals with acquired rights
    • UK nationals coming to Switzerland to work from 1 January 2021
    • FAQ – United Kingdom
  • Young professionals (trainees)
  • Employment for persons seeking or granted asylum
    • FAQ – Employment for persons seeking or granted asylum
  • Useful links and information
  • FAQ – Working
• Free Movement of Persons Switzerland – EU/EFTA
  • Living and Working in Switzerland
    • FAQ – Free Movement of Persons
    • Factsheets
  • Notification procedure for short-term work in Switzerland
    • FAQ – Frequently asked questions
    • Factsheets
    • Privacy Policy
  • Job registration requirement
  • United Kingdom
• Stay abroad
  • Trainee programmes

Integration & naturalization

• Integration
• My contribution to integration
  • What immigrants can do
    • Integration requirements
    • Language requirements
    • Training and work
    • Social integration
  • Employers
    • Immigrants
    • What can I do for displaced people?
  • Private individuals
• How do I become a Swiss citizen?
  • Ordinary naturalisation
  • Simplified citizenship by marriage
  • Children of Swiss citizens
  • Third generation foreign nationals
  • Stateless persons
  • Reinstatement of citizenship
  • Dual nationality
  • People erroneously treated as Swiss citizens
  • Loss of Swiss citizenship
  • FAQ – Swiss citizenship

Asylum / Protection from persecution

• Asylum / Protection from persecution
  • Humanitarian tradition
• Asylum procedure
  • Asylum application
    • Asylum applications from abroad
    • Asylum applications filed after evading border controls and by foreign nationals officially residing in Switzerland
  • Asylum regions and federal asylum centres
    • Initial allocation of asylum seekers to asylum regions
  • Reception and preparatory phase
  • Strategy for processing asylum requests
  • The Dublin Procedure
  • National asylum procedures
    • Asylum decision
  • Special procedure
  • Other topics
    • Statelessness
• Human trafficking
• Dublin Regulation
  • Eurodac
  • Criteria for determining responsibility in the Dublin System
  • FAQs Dublin Procedure and Eurodac
• Social welfare and emergency aid subsidies
  • Sozialhilfestatistik
  • Monitoring Sozialhilfestopp
  • Sonderabgabe auf Vermögenswerten
• Resettlement
  • Resettlement programmes since 2013
  • Selection procedure and entry into Switzerland
  • Integration
  • Annual Tripartite Consultations on Resettlement
• Addresses

Return

• Return
  • Absence of identity paper
  • Organisation of return journey
  • Forced return
• Return Assistance

International affairs

• Why people migrate
  • Reasons for migration
  • Consequences of migration
  • Migration policy
• Illegal / Irregular migration
• International collaboration
  • ICM Structure
  • Bilateral cooperation
    • Bilateral dialogues on migration
    • Readmission agreements
    • Migration cooperation agreements
    • Migration partnerships
    • Visa facilitation agreements
    • Agreements on visa exemption for holders of diplomatic, service or special passports
    • Visa waiver agreements
    • Trainee agreements (trainee programmes abroad)
  • Multilateral cooperation
    • International dialogues on migration
      • GFMD – Global Forum on Migration and Development
      • GDISC – General Directors’ Immigration Services Conference
      • UN High-Level Dialogue on Migration and Development
      • IGC – Intergovernmental Consultations on Migration, Asylum and Refugees
      • Council of Europe
    • Regional dialogues on migration
      • Budapest Process
      • Prague Process
      • Rabat Process
      • Khartoum Process
      • IGAD – Intergovernmental Authority on Development
    • Partner
      • IOM – International Organization for Migration
      • UNHCR – Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
      • IIHL – International Institute of Humanitarian Law
      • ICMPD – International Centre for Migration Policy Development
    • Other subjects
  • European migration policy / EU
    • Schengen/Dublin
      • Schengen
      • Dublin
      • European Asylum Support Office EASO
    • Further information
  • Protection in the Region
  • In-country support
• Country of Origin Information (COI)

Publications & services

• Publications
• Videos
• Reports
  • Integration
  • Reports on the effects of the withdrawal of social assistance
• Facts and figures
  • Foreign Population Statistics
    • Order of statistical reports
  • Asylum statistics
    • Order of statistical
  • Visa Monitoring
• Provisions
  • VII.  Visa
    • ID and visa provisions according to nationality (Annex CH-1, List 1)
      • List of travel documents
      • List of visa requirements
      • List of visa requirements (diplomatic, service, special, or official passport)
• Services
  • Linguistic analyses

The SEM

• Latest news
  • FAQ entry restrictions
  • Entry restrictions for high-risk countries
  • Warning against fraudulent e-mails
• Media
  • Contacts for media representatives
  • Media policy
  • Press releases
  • Visual material
  • Speeches and interviews
  • Newsletters
• Contact
  • Contacts for media representatives
  • Cantonal authorities
    • Cantonal immigration and employment market authorities
    • Cantonal naturalisation authorities
• The SEM
  • Tasks
  • State Secretary
  • Board of Management
  • SEM activities