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

¹ The air car­ri­er is ob­liged at the re­quest of the com­pet­ent fed­er­al or can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies to provide im­me­di­ate as­sist­ance to any pas­sen­gers that it is car­ry­ing who are denied entry to the Schen­gen area.²⁶¹

² The ob­lig­a­tion to provide as­sist­ance cov­ers:

a.

the im­me­di­ate trans­port of the per­son con­cerned from Switzer­land to their coun­try of ori­gin, to the state is­su­ing the travel doc­u­ments or to an­oth­er state where their ad­mis­sion is guar­an­teed;

b.

the un­covered costs of the re­quired at­tend­ance as well as the cus­tom­ary sub­sist­ence and care costs un­til de­par­ture from or entry in­to Switzer­land.

³ If the air car­ri­er is un­able to provide evid­ence that it has ful­filled its duty of care, it must ad­di­tion­ally bear:²⁶²

a.

the un­covered sub­sist­ence and care costs that have been covered by the Con­fed­er­a­tion or the can­ton for a peri­od of stay of up to six months, in­clud­ing the costs for de­ten­tion un­der the law on for­eign na­tion­als;

b.

the at­tend­ance costs;

c.

the de­port­a­tion costs.

⁴ Para­graph 3 does not ap­ply if the per­son be­ing trans­por­ted has been gran­ted entry to Switzer­land in terms of Art­icle 22 AsylA²⁶³. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may provide for fur­ther ex­cep­tions, in par­tic­u­lar for ex­cep­tion­al cir­cum­stances such as war or nat­ur­al dis­asters.²⁶⁴

⁵ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may stip­u­late a flat-rate charge based on the ex­pec­ted costs.

⁶ It may re­quest se­cur­ity for the pay­ment of costs.