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

¹ In or­der to ful­fil their du­ties, and in par­tic­u­lar to com­bat crim­in­al of­fence in terms of this Act, the SEM and the com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies of the can­tons may dis­close per­son­al data of for­eign na­tion­als to for­eign au­thor­it­ies and in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tions en­trus­ted with cor­res­pond­ing du­ties provided such au­thor­it­ies and or­gan­isa­tion guar­an­tee a level of data pro­tec­tion equi­val­ent to that in Switzer­land.

² The fol­low­ing per­son­al data may be dis­closed:

a.

bio­graph­ic­al data (sur­name, first name, ali­as, date of birth, place of birth, sex, na­tion­al­ity, last ad­dress in the nat­ive coun­try or coun­try of ori­gin) of the for­eign na­tion­al and, if ne­ces­sary, of the next of kin;

b.

in­form­a­tion about the pass­port or oth­er iden­tity cards;

c.

bio­met­ric data;

d.

fur­ther data re­quired for the iden­ti­fic­a­tion of a per­son;

e.

in­form­a­tion on the state of health, as far as this is in the in­terests of the per­son con­cerned and the per­son has been in­formed about this;

f.

the data re­quired for en­sur­ing entry to the des­tin­a­tion coun­try as well as for the se­cur­ity of the ac­com­pa­ny­ing per­sons;

g.

in­form­a­tion on the places of stay and routes trav­elled;

h.

in­form­a­tion on the reg­u­la­tion of the peri­od of stay and the visas gran­ted.