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

¹ The au­thor­it­ies en­trus­ted with the im­ple­ment­a­tion of this Act shall sup­port each oth­er in the ful­fil­ment of their tasks. They shall provide the re­quired in­form­a­tion and on re­quest al­low the in­spec­tion of of­fi­cial files.

² Oth­er au­thor­it­ies of the Con­fed­er­a­tion, the can­tons and the com­munes are ob­liged to dis­close data and in­form­a­tion re­quired for the im­ple­ment­a­tion of this Act at the re­quest of the au­thor­it­ies men­tioned in para­graph 1.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine what data must be re­por­ted to the au­thor­it­ies men­tioned in para­graph 1 in the case of:

a.

the open­ing of crim­in­al in­vest­ig­a­tions;

b.

civil and crim­in­al judge­ments;

c.

changes in con­nec­tion with civil status or in the case of re­fus­al to per­mit a mar­riage;

d.

a claim for so­cial as­sist­ance;

d^bis.³⁰⁰

a claim for un­em­ploy­ment be­ne­fit;

d^ter.³⁰¹

a claim for sup­ple­ment­ary be­ne­fits in ac­cord­ance with the SBA³⁰²;

d^quater.³⁰³

dis­cip­lin­ary meas­ures by school au­thor­it­ies;

d^quin­quies.³⁰⁴

meas­ures taken by child and adult pro­tec­tion au­thor­it­ies;

e.³⁰⁵

oth­er de­cisions in­dic­at­ing a spe­cial need for in­teg­ra­tion in ac­cord­ance with the cri­ter­ia set out in Art­icle 58a;

f.³⁰⁶

...

⁴ If an au­thor­ity in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 re­ceives data pur­su­ant to Art­icle 26a SBA about a claim for sup­ple­ment­ary be­ne­fits, it shall auto­mat­ic­ally no­ti­fy the body re­spons­ible for de­term­in­ing and pay­ing out the sup­ple­ment­ary be­ne­fits of the pos­sib­il­ity that the res­id­ence per­mit will not be ex­ten­ded or will be re­voked.³⁰⁷