Federal Act on Foreign Nationals and Integration

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Art. 109b National visa system

1The SEM shall op­er­ate a na­tion­al visa sys­tem. The sys­tem serves the re­gis­tra­tion of visa ap­plic­a­tions and the is­sue of visas gran­ted by Switzer­land. In par­tic­u­lar, it con­tains the data trans­mit­ted via the na­tion­al in­ter­face (N-VIS) to the C-VIS.

2The na­tion­al visa sys­tem con­tains the fol­low­ing cat­egor­ies of data on visa ap­plic­ants:

a.
al­pha­nu­mer­ic­al data on the ap­plic­ant and on the visa that has been ap­plied for, gran­ted, denied, can­celled, re­voked or ex­ten­ded;
b.
the ap­plic­ants' pho­to­graphs and fin­ger­prints;
c.
the links between cer­tain visa ap­plic­a­tions;
d.2
the data from RI­POL and from the ASF-SLTD to which the visa au­thor­it­ies have ac­cess;
e.3
the data from SIS to which the visa au­thor­it­ies have ac­cess, provided an alert has been is­sued un­der Chapter 4 of Reg­u­la­tion (EC) No 1987/20064 and the re­quire­ments of Art­icle 32 para­graph 1 of this EC Reg­u­la­tion have been met.

2bisThe na­tion­al visa sys­tem also con­tains a sub­sys­tem with the files on the visa ap­plic­ants in elec­tron­ic form.5

3The SEM, Swiss rep­res­ent­a­tions abroad and mis­sions, can­ton­al mi­gra­tion au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for visas and the com­mun­al au­thor­it­ies to which the can­tons have del­eg­ated these re­spons­ib­il­it­ies, the State Sec­ret­ari­at and the Dir­ect­or­ate of Polit­ic­al Af­fairs of the FD­FA and the Bor­der Guard and the bor­der posts of the can­ton­al po­lice au­thor­it­ies that is­sue ex­cep­tion­al visas may enter, modi­fy and de­lete data in the na­tion­al visa sys­tem in or­der to ful­fil their du­ties un­der the visa pro­ced­ure.6 They must enter and pro­cess the data trans­mit­ted to the C—VIS in ac­cord­ance with Reg­u­la­tion (EC) No 767/20087.

1 In­ser­ted by Art. 2 No 1 of the FD of 11 Dec. 2009 on the Ap­prov­al and Im­ple­ment­a­tion of the Ex­change of Notes between Switzer­land and the EU on the Ad­op­tion of the Reg­u­la­tion and De­cision con­cern­ing the Visa In­form­a­tion Sys­tem (VIS), in force since 20 Jan. 2014 (AS 2010 2063, 2014 1; BBl 2009 4245).
2 In­ser­ted by No I of the FA of 20 June 2014 (Vi­ol­a­tions of the Duty of Care and to Re­port by Air Car­ri­ers, In­form­a­tion Sys­tems), in force since 1 Oct. 2015 (AS 2015 3023; BBl 2013 2561).
3 In­ser­ted by No I of the FA of 20 June 2014 (Vi­ol­a­tions of the Duty of Care and to Re­port by Air Car­ri­ers, In­form­a­tion Sys­tems), in force since 1 Oct. 2015 (AS 2015 3023; BBl 2013 2561).
4 Reg­u­la­tion (EC) No 1987/2006 of the European Par­lia­ment and of the Coun­cil of 20 Decem­ber 2006 on the es­tab­lish­ment, op­er­a­tion and use of the second gen­er­a­tion Schen­gen In­form­a­tion Sys­tem (SIS II), amended by OJ. L 381 of 28.12.2006, p. 4.
5 In­ser­ted by No I of the FA of 20 June 2014 (Vi­ol­a­tions of the Duty of Care and to Re­port by Air Car­ri­ers, In­form­a­tion Sys­tems), in force since 1 Oct. 2015 (AS 2015 3023; BBl 2013 2561).
6 Amended by No I of the FA of 26 Sept. 2014, in force since 1 March 2015 (AS 2015 533; BBl 2014 3373).
7 Reg­u­la­tion (EC) No 767/2008 of the European Par­lia­ment and the Coun­cil of 9 Ju­ly 2008 con­cern­ing the Visa In­form­a­tion Sys­tem (VIS) and the ex­change of data between Mem­ber States on short-stay visas (VIS Reg­u­la­tion), OJ. L 218 of 13.8.2008, p. 60.

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