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

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of 16 December 2005 (Status as of 1 July 2021)

1 Amended by No I of the FA of 16 Dec. 2016 (Integration), in force since 1 Jan. 2019 (AS 2017 6521, 2018 3171; BBl 2013 2397, 2016 2821).


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Art. 121 Seizure and confiscation of documents 398

1 Forged and fals­i­fied travel doc­u­ments and iden­tity pa­pers, and genu­ine travel doc­u­ments and iden­tity pa­pers where there is spe­cif­ic evid­ence that they are be­ing used un­law­fully may, as dir­ec­ted by of the SEM, be for­feited to au­thor­it­ies or of­fices or seized for re­turn to their right­ful own­ers.

2 The for­feit­ure or re­turn un­der para­graph 1 is also pos­sible if there is spe­cif­ic evid­ence that genu­ine travel doc­u­ments and iden­tity pa­pers are in­ten­ded for per­sons who are stay­ing un­law­fully in Switzer­land.

3 Iden­tity pa­pers un­der para­graph 1 in­clude iden­tity cards and oth­er doc­u­ments that in­dic­ate the iden­tity of a for­eign na­tion­al.

398 Amended by An­nex No 1 of the FA of 14 Dec. 2012, in force since 1 Feb. 2014 (AS 2013 43755357; BBl 2010 4455, 2011 7325).

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