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

English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.

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. 98b Delegation of duties to third parties in the visa procedure 283

1 The FD­FA in con­sulta­tion with the SEM may au­thor­ise third parties to carry out the fol­low­ing tasks in re­la­tion to the visa pro­ced­ure:

a.
ar­range­ment of ap­point­ments with a view to grant­ing a visa;
b.
re­ceiv­ing doc­u­ments (visa ap­plic­a­tion form, pass­port, sup­port­ing doc­u­ments);
c.
char­ging of fees;
d.
re­cord­ing of bio­met­ric­al data for the cent­ral visa in­form­a­tion sys­tem;
e.
re­turn­ing pass­ports to their hold­ers at the end of the pro­ced­ure.

2 The FD­FA and the SEM shall en­sure that the third parties to whom du­ties are del­eg­ated com­ply with the reg­u­la­tions on data pro­tec­tion and se­cur­ity.

3 The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine the con­di­tions un­der which third parties may be del­eg­ated du­ties in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1.

283 In­ser­ted by Art. 2 No 1 of the FD of 11 Dec. 2009 (Ap­prov­al and Im­ple­ment­a­tion of the Ex­changes of Notes re­lat­ing to the Visa In­form­a­tion Sys­tem), in force since 1 Jan. 2011 (AS 2010 20635761; BBl 2009 4245).

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