Federal Act on Foreign Nationals and Integration

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Art. 109c Consultation of the national visa system

The SEM may grant the fol­low­ing au­thor­it­ies on­line ac­cess to the data in the na­tion­al visa sys­tem:

a.
the Bor­der Guard and the bor­der posts of the can­ton­al po­lice au­thor­it­ies: to carry out checks on per­sons and to is­sue ex­cep­tion­al visas;
b.
the Swiss rep­res­ent­a­tions abroad and the Swiss Mis­sions: to veri­fy visa ap­plic­a­tions;
c.
the State Sec­ret­ari­at and the Dir­ect­or­ate of Polit­ic­al Af­fairs of the FD­FA: to veri­fy visa ap­plic­a­tions for which the FD­FA is re­spons­ible;
d.
the Cent­ral Com­pens­a­tion Of­fice: to as­sess ap­plic­a­tions for be­ne­fits and to al­loc­ate and check OASI in­sur­ance num­bers;
e.2
the can­ton­al and com­mun­al mi­gra­tion au­thor­it­ies and the can­ton­al and com­mun­al po­lice au­thor­it­ies: to ful­fil their du­ties in the field of im­mig­ra­tion;
f.
the com­pet­ent fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies in the field of in­tern­al se­cur­ity, in­ter­na­tion­al mu­tu­al leg­al as­sist­ance and poli­cing:
1.
in or­der to identi­fy per­sons in con­nec­tion with the ex­change of po­lice in­tel­li­gence, se­cur­ity and crim­in­al po­lice du­ties, ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings, ad­min­is­trat­ive and mu­tu­al leg­al as­sist­ance, law en­force­ment and the en­force­ment of pen­al­ties on be­half of oth­ers, com­bat­ing money laun­der­ing, drug traf­fick­ing and or­gan­ised crime, check­ing iden­tity doc­u­ments, tra­cing miss­ing per­sons and check­ing entries in the com­pu­ter­ised po­lice search sys­tem un­der the Fed­er­al Act of 13 June 20083 on the Fed­er­al Po­lice In­form­a­tion Sys­tems,
2.
in or­der to check meas­ures ban­ning entry in or­der to safe­guard Switzer­land's in­tern­al and ex­tern­al se­cur­ity un­der the Fed­er­al Act of 21 March 19974 on Meas­ures to Safe­guard In­tern­al Se­cur­ity;
g.
the Fed­er­al Ap­pel­late Au­thor­it­ies: for the pre­par­at­ory brief­ing pro­ced­ure for ap­peals;
h.
the civil re­gister of­fices and their su­per­vis­ory au­thor­it­ies: to identi­fy per­sons in con­nec­tion with changes in civil status, to pre­pare for a mar­riage ce­re­mony or the re­gis­tra­tion of a same-sex part­ner­ship, and to pre­vent cir­cum­ven­tion of the law on for­eign na­tion­als in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 97a para­graph 1 CC5 and Art­icle 6 para­graph 2 of the Same-Sex Part­ner­ship Act of 18 June 20046.

1 In­ser­ted by Art. 2 No 1 of the FD of 11 Dec. 2009 on the Ap­prov­al and Im­ple­ment­a­tion of the Ex­changes of Notes between Switzer­land 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, 2011 4449, 2014 1; BBl 2009 4245).
2 Amended by No I of the FA of 14 Dec. 2018 (Pro­ced­ur­al Ar­range­ments and In­form­a­tion Sys­tems), in force since 1 April 2020 (AS 2019 1413, 2020 881; BBl 2018 1685).
3 SR 361
4 SR 120
5 SR 210
6 SR 211.231

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