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Entry, residence & working

• Entry
  • Information on entering Switzerland
    • Entry requirements by nationality
      • Entry with visa
      • Entry without visa
      • Do I require an ETIAS?
  • FAQ – Entry
  • Specific information on entering Switzerland or a country in the Schengen area
    • Schengen Area
    • Switzerland’s external and internal borders
    • Legal basis entry procedures
    • Information systems in the Schengen area
      • Entry/Exit System (EES)
      • The Schengen Information System (SIS)
      • Interoperability (IOP)
      • Data protection
    • Integrated Border Management (IBM)
      • IBM Action Plan
  • 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
    • Advance Passenger Information (API)
      • Overview of duty to provide API data for air carriers
• 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
• Identification and Security Checks
  • Interoperability (IOP)
  • Data media analysis
• 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
  • 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
  • Program S
    • Adolescents and young adults with protection status S
• 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
    • asylum-info.ch
  • Reception and preparatory phase
  • Strategy for processing asylum requests
  • The Dublin Procedure
  • National asylum procedures
    • Asylum decision
  • Special procedure
  • Other topics
    • Statelessness
    • Gender-specific persecution
• Human trafficking
  • Protect yourself!
• Information for refugees from Ukraine
  • Questions and answers (FAQ)
  • New regulation from 1 November 2025
  • RegisterMe
  • Statistics
• Information on Afghanistan
• 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
  • Special charge on assets
• Resettlement
  • Resettlement programmes since 2013
  • Selection procedure and entry into Switzerland
  • Integration
  • Annual Tripartite Consultations on Resettlement
• Addresses

International affairs & return

• Swiss foreign policy on migration
  • Interdepartmental Cooperation
  • Financement
  • Immigration Liaison Officers
  • International Agreements
    • Migration partnerships
    • Readmission agreements
    • Migration cooperation
    • Agreements on permanent residence
    • Visa facilitation agreements
    • Visa exemption for holders of diplomatic passports
    • Visa waiver agreements for standard passports
    • Trainee agreements (trainee programmes abroad)
    • Other agreements
    • Settlement treaties
  • Partners and organisations
    • The International Organization for Migration
    • Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
      • Nansen Refugee Award
    • International Institute of Humanitarian Law
    • International Centre for Migration Policy Development
    • The Council of Europe
• Cooperation with the EU/EFTA
  • Schengen
    • Decision Shaping
    • Schengen 2.0
    • EU Funds
      • External Borders Fund
      • Internal Security Fund
      • Border Management and Visa Policy Instrument
  • Dublin
    • The Dublin Joint Committee
  • European Union Agency for Asylum
  • EU Pact on Migration and Asylum
  • Bilateral Cooperation
  • Second Swiss contribution
    • Rapid Response Fund
  • Further information
• International collaboration
  • Bilateral dialogues on migration
  • In-country support
• Multilateral cooperation
  • International dialogues on asylum and migration
    • Global Forum on Migration and Development
    • General Directors’ Immigration Services Conference
    • Intergovernmental Consultations on Migration, Asylum and Refugees
    • Global Refugee Forum
  • Regionale Migrationsdialoge
    • Budapest Process
    • Rabat Process
    • Khartoum Process
    • Intergovernmental Authority on Development
• Country of Origin Information (COI)
• Return Assistance
  • Return counselling
  • Individual return assistance
    • Organising the return journey
    • Financial assistance
    • Reintegration plans
    • Medical assistance
  • Rückkehrhilfe im Ausländerbereich
  • Programme im Ausland
    • Laufende Länderprogramme
    • Completed country programmes
  • Rückkehrhilfe Kommunikation
    • Rückkehrhilfe konkret
    • RüKo-Material
    • Unterrichtsmaterial für Sprachkurse
• Return
  • Identification
  • Obtaining travel documents
  • Organising return journeys
  • Forcible returns
    • Coercive removal measures
    • Frontex
    • Deportation

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
    • LINGUA – Specialized unit for analyses of origin in Switzerland
      • What is LINGUA?
      • Who are the experts?
      • Working method – Interview as a basis
      • Working method – Reports and quality criteria
      • Working method – Result categories
      • Legal basis
      • Analyses of origin: Reactions and further development
    • Workshop 2008
      • Program

The SEM

• Latest news
  • 24-hour asylum procedure
  • Інформація для осіб з України, що потребують захисту
  • Questions and answers for refugees from Ukraine
  • Italy: Dublin transfers and readmission agreement
  • Oberholzer investigation report
  • Warning against fraudulent letters and 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

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