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

¹ For­eign na­tion­als who wish to enter Switzer­land:

a.

must have a re­cog­nised iden­tity doc­u­ment for cross­ing the bor­der and a visa, if re­quired;

b.

must have the re­quired fin­an­cial means for the peri­od of stay;

c.

must not pose a threat to pub­lic se­cur­ity and or­der or to Switzer­land’s in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions; and

d.⁸

must not be sub­ject to a meas­ure ban­ning them from entry or an or­der for ex­pul­sion from Switzer­land un­der Art­icle 66a or 66a^bis of the Swiss Crim­in­al Code (SCC)⁹ or Art­icle 49a or 49a^bis of the Mil­it­ary Crim­in­al Code of 13 June 1927¹⁰ (MCC).

² They must provide a guar­an­tee that they will leave Switzer­land if only a tem­por­ary peri­od of stay is planned.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may provide for ex­cep­tions to the entry re­quire­ments in para­graph 1 on hu­man­it­ari­an or na­tion­al in­terest grounds or on the basis of in­ter­na­tion­al ob­lig­a­tions.¹¹

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine the re­cog­nised iden­tity doc­u­ments for cross­ing the bor­der.¹²