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. 7 Crossing the border and border controls 18

1 Entry and exit are gov­erned by the Schen­gen As­so­ci­ation Agree­ments.

2 The Fed­er­al Coun­cil reg­u­lates pos­sible checks on per­sons at the bor­der in ac­cord­ance with these Agree­ments. If entry is re­fused, the au­thor­ity re­spons­ible for the bor­der con­trol shall is­sue a re­mov­al or­der in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 64.19

3 If checks at the Swiss bor­der are tem­por­ar­ily re­in­tro­duced in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 27, 28 or 29 of the Schen­gen Bor­ders Code20 and entry is re­fused, the au­thor­ity re­spons­ible for the bor­der con­trols shall is­sue a reasoned and ap­peal­able de­cision on a form in ac­cord­ance with An­nex V Part B of the Schen­gen Bor­ders Code. The re­fus­al of entry may be en­forced im­me­di­ately. An ap­peal has no sus­pens­ive ef­fect.21

18 Amended by Art. 127 be­low, in force since 12 Dec. 2008 (AS 2008 5405Art. 2 let. a).

19 Amended by Art. 2 No 1 of the FD of 18 June 2010 on the Ad­op­tion of the EC Dir­ect­ive on the Re­turn of Il­leg­al Im­mig­rants (Dir­ect­ive 2008/115/EC), in force since 1 Jan. 2011 (AS 2010 5925; BBl 2009 8881).

20 Reg­u­la­tion (EU) 2016/399 of the European Par­lia­ment and of the Coun­cil of 9 March 2016 es­tab­lish­ing a Com­munity Code on the rules gov­ern­ing the move­ment of per­sons across bor­ders (Schen­gen Bor­ders Code), OJ. L 77 of 23.3.2016, p. 1; last amended by Reg­u­la­tion (EU) 2017/458, OJ. L 74 of 18.03.2017, p. 1.

21 In­ser­ted by Art. 2 of the FD of 13 June 2008 on the Ap­prov­al and the Im­ple­ment­a­tion of the Ex­change of Notes between Switzer­land and the European Com­munity on the Ac­cept­ance of the Schen­gen Bor­ders Code (AS 2008 56295405Art. 2 let. b). Amended by An­nex No 1 of the FD of 15 Dec. 2017 (Ad­op­tion of Reg­u­la­tion [EU] 2016/1624 on the European Bor­der and Coast Guard), in force since 15 Sept. 2018 (AS 2018 3161; BBl 2017 4155).

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