Implementation of the new asylum law: Collected news items
An inquiry commissioned by the Federal Council found out that Swiss authorities never treated applications for asylum of Iraqis which were submitted at the embassies in Egypt and Syria between 2006 and 2008. This is the result of a directive issued b...
In the past weeks, several newly arriving asylum seekers have been rejected at the doors of the centres of accommodation and provisioning in Basel, Vallorbe and Chiasso. Despite frost and cold, some of them had to spend several nights without shelter...
All people in need of assistance in an emergency shall in future be covered compulsorily by health insurance. On 6 July 2011, the Federal Council took this decision in its revision of the Health Insurance Regulations (KVV), reacting to a call from th...
In its press release of 26 January 2011, the Federal Office for Migration states that the present situation in Greece will lead to an adjustment of the implementation of the Dublin Procedures. As a reaction Switzerland will return to assessing releva...
On 28 June 2010, the Swiss authorities announced that an undetected heart condition was the cause of death of the 29-year-old Nigerian during the preparations for forced repatriation. According to the post-mortem report by the Institute of Forensic M...
Thousands of children, coming to Europe without their parents, disappear every year from lodging and reception centers without a search procedure being set in motion. In Switzerland too, experts consider that the majority of unaccompanied children di...
Switzerland continues to deport asylum seekers towards Italy or Greece according to the Dublin II Agreement that entered into force in December 2008. A report presented in November 2009 by the Swiss Observatory on the Asylum Law and Foreign National ...
Swiss authorities have deported an Iraqi asylum seeker who became famous after starring in the Swiss documentary film “The Fortress”. On 2nd April 2009, the Federal Department of Justice announced they sent Fahad Khammas back to Sweden ...
A large coalition of fifty Swiss organisations presented its statement against the restrictions on the Asylum Law and National Act planed by the government. Indeed, the Federal Council has open for comments its revision of the Asylum Law and for th...
On 18 June 2008, the European Parliament adopted new community rules on the repatriation of illegal immigrants. As a future member of the Schengen and Dublin agreements (security and asylum accord), Switzerland has two years to adapt its law, which...
In the first half of 2007 more than half of the rejections of applications for asylum were due to missing documents - compared with 9.9 per cent in 2005. This is what the non governmental organisation Swiss Refugee Council (SRC) observed afte...
On 24 September 2008, on of the Centre for Monitoring the Asylum and Foreigners’ Laws presented its first report. Two years after the adoption by vote by the Swiss population of the revised asylum law and the New Foreigners Act, the French-sp...
