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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).

Art. 6 Issue of the visa

1 Visas are is­sued by the Swiss rep­res­ent­a­tion abroad on be­half of the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity of the Con­fed­er­a­tion or the can­tons or by an­oth­er au­thor­ity ap­poin­ted by the Fed­er­al Coun­cil.

2 In the case of a re­fus­al of the visa for a peri­od of stay not re­quir­ing a per­mit (Art. 10), the com­pet­ent for­eign rep­res­ent­a­tion shall is­sue a de­cision on a stand­ard form on be­half of the State Sec­ret­ari­at for Mi­gra­tion (SEM)13 or the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of For­eign Af­fairs (FD­FA). The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may provide that oth­er of­fices of the FD­FA may also is­sue de­cisions on be­half of the FD­FA.14

2bis A writ­ten ob­jec­tion may be filed against this de­cision with the rel­ev­ant au­thor­ity (SEM or FD­FA) with­in 30 days. Art­icle 63 of the Fed­er­al Act of 20 Decem­ber 196815 on Ad­min­is­trat­ive Pro­ced­ure ap­plies mu­tatis mutandis.16

3 To cov­er any res­id­ence, su­per­vi­sion and re­turn costs, a form­al ob­lig­a­tion lim­ited in time, the de­pos­it of a surety bond or oth­er types of guar­an­tee may be re­quired.17

13 The name of this ad­min­is­trat­ive unit was amended by Art. 16 para. 3 of the Pub­lic­a­tions Or­din­ance of 17 Nov. 2004 (AS 2004 4937), in force since 1 Jan. 2015. This amend­ment has been made throughout the text.

14 Amended by No I of the FA of 20 June 2014 (Vi­ol­a­tions of the Duty of Care and to Re­port by Air Car­ri­ers, In­form­a­tion Sys­tems), in force since 1 Oct. 2015 (AS 2015 3023; BBl 2013 2561).

15 SR 172.021

16 In­ser­ted by Art. 2 No 1 of the FD of 11 Dec. 2009 (Ap­prov­al and Im­ple­ment­a­tion of the Ex­change of Notes re­lat­ing to the Visa In­form­a­tion Sys­tem) (AS 2010 2063; BBl 2009 4245). Amended by No I of the FA of 20 June 2014 (Vi­ol­a­tions of the Duty of Care and to Re­port by Air Car­ri­ers, In­form­a­tion Sys­tems), in force since 1 Oct. 2015 (AS 2015 3023; BBl 2013 2561).

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