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 2 October 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. 109a Consultation of data in the Central Visa Information System 335

1 The Cent­ral Visa In­form­a­tion Sys­tem (C-VIS) con­tains the visa data from all the states to which Reg­u­la­tion (EC) No. 767/2008336 ap­plies.

2 The fol­low­ing au­thor­it­ies may con­sult C-VIS data on­line:

a.337
the SEM, Swiss rep­res­ent­a­tions abroad and mis­sions, the can­ton­al mi­gra­tion au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for the visa and the com­mun­al au­thor­it­ies to which the can­tons have del­eg­ated these re­spons­ib­il­it­ies, the State Sec­ret­ari­at and the Dir­ect­or­ate of Polit­ic­al Af­fairs of the FD­FA, the Bor­der Guard and the bor­der posts of the can­ton­al po­lice au­thor­it­ies: in the course of the visa pro­ced­ure;
b.338
the SEM: to de­term­ine the state re­spons­ible for as­sess­ing an asylum ap­plic­a­tion un­der Reg­u­la­tion (EC) No. 604/2013339 and in the course of as­sess­ing an asylum ap­plic­a­tion if Switzer­land is re­spons­ible for its pro­cessing;
c.
the Bor­der Guard and the can­ton­al po­lice au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for checks at the Schen­gen ex­tern­al bor­ders: to con­duct checks at the ex­tern­al bor­der cross­ing points and on Swiss sov­er­eign ter­rit­ory;
d.340
the Bor­der Guard and the can­ton­al and com­mun­al po­lice au­thor­it­ies that con­duct checks on per­sons: to identi­fy per­sons who do not or who no longer ful­fil the re­quire­ments for entry in­to Swiss sov­er­eign ter­rit­ory or for a stay in Switzer­land.

3 The fol­low­ing au­thor­it­ies may re­quest spe­cif­ic C-VIS data from the cent­ral ac­cess point un­der para­graph 4 in ap­plic­a­tion of De­cision 2008/633/JI341 in or­der to pre­vent de­tect or in­vest­ig­ate ter­ror­ist of­fences or oth­er ser­i­ous crim­in­al of­fences:

a.
fed­pol;
b.
FIS;
c.
the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al of Switzer­land;
d.
the can­ton­al po­lice and pro­sec­u­tion au­thor­it­ies and the po­lice au­thor­it­ies of the cit­ies of Zurich, Win­ter­thur, Lausanne, Chi­asso and Lugano.

4 The cent­ral ac­cess point in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 3 para­graph 3 of De­cision 2008/633/JI is the fed­pol op­er­a­tions centre.

335 In­ser­ted by Art. 2 No 1 of the FD of 11 Dec. 2009 on the Ap­prov­al and Im­ple­ment­a­tion of the Ex­change of Notes between Switzer­land and the EU on the Ad­op­tion of the Reg­u­la­tion and De­cision con­cern­ing the Visa In­form­a­tion Sys­tem (VIS), in force since 11 Oct. 2011 (AS 2010 2063, 20114449; BBl 2009 4245).

336 Reg­u­la­tion (EC) No 767/2008 of the European Par­lia­ment and of the Coun­cil of 9 Ju­ly 2008 con­cern­ing the Visa In­form­a­tion Sys­tem (VIS) and the ex­change of data between Mem­ber States on short-stay visas (VIS Reg­u­la­tion), OJ. L 218 of 13.8.2008, p. 60.

337 Amended by No I of the FA of 26 Sept. 2014, in force since 1 March 2015 (AS 2015 533; BBl 20143373).

338 Amended by An­nex No I 1 of the FD of 26 Sept. 2014 (Ad­op­tion of R[EU] No 604/2013 es­tab­lish­ing the cri­ter­ia and mech­an­isms for de­term­in­ing the Mem­ber State re­spons­ible for ex­amin­ing an ap­plic­a­tion for in­ter­na­tion­al pro­tec­tion), in force since 1 Ju­ly 2015 (AS 2015 1841; BBl 2014 2675).

339 See foot­note to Art. 64a para. 1.

340 Amended by No I of the FA of 14 Dec. 2018 (Pro­ced­ur­al Ar­range­ments and In­form­a­tion Sys­tems), in force since 1 April 2020 (AS 2019 1413, 2020 881; BBl 2018 1685).

341 Coun­cil De­cision 2008/633/JI of 23 June 2008 con­cern­ing ac­cess for con­sulta­tion of the Visa In­form­a­tion Sys­tem (VIS) by des­ig­nated au­thor­it­ies of Mem­ber States and by Euro­pol for the pur­poses of the pre­ven­tion, de­tec­tion and in­vest­ig­a­tion of ter­ror­ist of­fences and of oth­er ser­i­ous crim­in­al of­fences, OJ. L 218 of 13.8.2008, p. 129.

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