Federal Act on Foreign Nationals and Integration

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.