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

¹ The set­tle­ment per­mit is gran­ted for an un­lim­ited dur­a­tion and without con­di­tions.

² For­eign na­tion­als may be gran­ted a set­tle­ment per­mit if:

a.

they have resided in Switzer­land for a min­im­um of ten years in total on the basis of a short stay or res­id­ence per­mit and have held a res­id­ence per­mit without in­ter­rup­tion for the last five years;

b.⁵⁰

there are no grounds for re­voc­a­tion in terms of Art­icle 62 or 63 para­graph 2; and

c.⁵¹

they are in­teg­rated.

³ The set­tle­ment per­mit may be gran­ted after a short­er qual­i­fy­ing peri­od if there is good cause.

⁴ For­eign na­tion­als may be gran­ted a set­tle­ment per­mit if they have resided in Switzer­land for the past five years without in­ter­rup­tion while hold­ing a res­id­ence per­mit, if they meet the re­quire­ments of para­graph 2 let­ters b and c, and if they are able to com­mu­nic­ate well in the na­tion­al lan­guage spoken at their place of res­id­ence.⁵²

⁵ Tem­por­ary peri­ods of stay, in par­tic­u­lar for edu­ca­tion or train­ing (Art. 27), do not count to­wards the un­in­ter­rup­ted peri­od of stay in the last five years in ac­cord­ance with para­graphs 2 let­ter a and 4.Peri­ods of stay for edu­ca­tion or train­ing (Art. 27) are in­cluded if the per­son con­cerned, after their com­ple­tion, held a set­tle­ment per­mit for an un­in­ter­rup­ted peri­od of two years.⁵³

⁶ If the set­tle­ment per­mit has been re­voked in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 63 para­graph 2 and re­placed by a res­id­ence per­mit, the set­tle­ment per­mit may be gran­ted again at the earli­est five years after in­teg­ra­tion has been suc­cess­ful.⁵⁴