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

of 16 December 2005 (Status as of 17 December 2022)

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. 102 Data collection for the purpose of identification and determining age 327

1 When veri­fy­ing entry re­quire­ments and in pro­ced­ures con­cern­ing for­eign na­tion­als, the com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies may in in­di­vidu­al cases col­lect and re­cord bio­met­ric data per­tain­ing to for­eign na­tion­als for iden­ti­fic­a­tion pur­poses. For spe­cif­ic cat­egor­ies of per­sons, col­lec­tion and re­cord­ing may be car­ried out sys­tem­at­ic­ally.328

1bis If there are in­dic­a­tions that an al­leged for­eign minor has reached the age of ma­jor­ity, the com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies may ar­range an ex­pert re­port on that per­son's age.329

2 The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine the cat­egor­ies of per­sons for which data may be re­cor­ded sys­tem­at­ic­ally and which bio­met­ric data shall be col­lec­ted in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1, and shall reg­u­late ac­cess to this data.330

327 Amended by An­nex No 1 of the FA of 14 Dec. 2012, in force since 1 Feb. 2014 (AS 2013 43755357; BBl 2010 4455, 2011 7325).

328 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).

329 In­ser­ted by An­nex No 1 of the FA of 14 Dec. 2012, in force since 1 Feb. 2014 (AS 2013 43755357; BBl 2010 4455, 2011 7325).

330 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).

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