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

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall ap­point an ad­vis­ory com­mis­sion com­pris­ing for­eign and Swiss na­tion­als.

² The Com­mis­sion shall deal with so­cial, eco­nom­ic, cul­tur­al, polit­ic­al, demo­graph­ic and leg­al is­sues that arise from the entry, res­id­ence and re­turn of all for­eign na­tion­als, in­clud­ing asylum seekers.

³ It shall work with the com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies of the Con­fed­er­a­tion, the can­tons and the com­munes and with non-gov­ern­ment­al or­gan­isa­tions in­volved in mi­gra­tion mat­ters; these in­clude the can­ton­al and com­mun­al com­mis­sions for for­eign na­tion­als in­volved in in­teg­ra­tion. It shall par­ti­cip­ate in the in­ter­na­tion­al ex­change of views and ex­per­i­ences.

⁴ The Com­mis­sion may be con­sul­ted on ques­tions of prin­ciple re­lat­ing to the pro­mo­tion of in­teg­ra­tion. It is en­titled to re­quest fin­an­cial con­tri­bu­tions from the SEM for con­duct­ing in­teg­ra­tion pro­jects of na­tion­al im­port­ance.

⁵ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may as­sign ad­di­tion­al tasks to the Com­mis­sion.