Federal Act
on Foreign Nationals and Integration
(Foreign Nationals and Integration Act, FNIA)¹

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall en­cour­age bi­lat­er­al and mul­ti­lat­er­al mi­gra­tion part­ner­ships with oth­er states. It may con­clude agree­ments to im­prove co­oper­a­tion in the field of mi­gra­tion as well as to re­duce il­leg­al mi­gra­tion and its neg­at­ive con­sequences.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may con­clude agree­ments with for­eign states or in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tions on:²⁸⁶

a.

the re­quire­ment to ob­tain a visa and the con­duct of bor­der con­trols;

b.

the read­mis­sion and trans­it of per­sons resid­ing without au­thor­isa­tion in Switzer­land;

c.

the trans­it with po­lice es­cort of per­sons in terms of read­mis­sion and trans­it agree­ments in­clud­ing the leg­al status of per­sons ac­com­pa­ny­ing the con­trac­tu­al parties;

d.

the peri­od of res­id­ence re­quired be­fore a set­tle­ment per­mit is gran­ted;

e.

ba­sic and ad­vanced pro­fes­sion­al train­ing;

f.

the re­cruit­ment of em­ploy­ees;

g.

cross-bor­der ser­vices;

h.

the leg­al status of per­sons in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 98 para­graph 2.

³ In the case of read­mis­sion and trans­it agree­ments, it may in terms of its re­spons­ib­il­it­ies grant or with­hold ser­vices and ad­vant­ages. In do­ing so, it shall take ac­count of ob­lig­a­tions un­der in­ter­na­tion­al law as well as the all the re­la­tions Switzer­land has with the af­fected state.²⁸⁷

⁴ The re­spons­ible de­part­ments may enter in­to agree­ments with for­eign au­thor­it­ies or in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tions on the tech­nic­al im­ple­ment­a­tion of agree­ments in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 2.²⁸⁸

⁵ Un­til the con­clu­sion of a read­mis­sion agree­ment with­in the mean­ing of para­graph 2 let­ter b, the FD­JP may enter in­to agree­ments with the com­pet­ent for­eign au­thor­it­ies and in con­sulta­tion with the FD­FA in which or­gan­isa­tion­al is­sues con­nec­ted with the re­turn of for­eign na­tion­als to their nat­ive coun­tries and with re­turn as­sist­ance and re­in­teg­ra­tion are reg­u­lated.²⁸⁹