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

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion may wholly or par­tially fin­ance the con­struc­tion or es­tab­lish­ment of can­ton­al de­ten­tion centres that are used ex­clus­ively for de­tain­ing per­sons in pre­par­a­tion for de­par­ture or pending de­port­a­tion, or pla­cing per­sons in co­er­cive de­ten­tion or for short-term de­ten­tion and which are of a cer­tain size. The cal­cu­la­tion of con­tri­bu­tions and the pro­ced­ure are gov­erned mu­tatis mutandis by Sec­tions 2 and 6 of the Fed­er­al Act of 5 Oc­to­ber 1984²⁴³ on Fed­er­al Sub­sidies for the Ex­e­cu­tion of Sen­tences and Meas­ures.

² The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall con­trib­ute to the can­tons’ op­er­at­ing costs for de­tain­ing per­sons in pre­par­a­tion for de­par­ture or pending de­port­a­tion, or pla­cing per­sons in co­er­cive de­ten­tion by mak­ing a flat-rate daily pay­ment. The flat-rate pay­ment shall be made in the case of:

a.

asylum seekers;

b.

refugees and oth­er for­eign na­tion­als who are de­tained in con­nec­tion with the re­voc­a­tion of tem­por­ary ad­mis­sion;

c.

for­eign na­tion­als whose de­ten­tion has been ordered by SEM in con­nec­tion with a re­mov­al or­der;

d.

refugees who are ex­pelled in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 65 AsylA²⁴⁴.

³ The Con­fed­er­a­tion may con­trib­ute for a lim­ited peri­od in the form of a daily al­low­ance to the op­er­at­ing costs of the tem­por­ary de­ten­tion of per­sons in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 73 para­graph 1 let­ter c. A fin­an­cial con­tri­bu­tion re­quires that:

a.

the per­son con­cerned is de­tained in a can­ton­al de­par­ture centre in the bor­der zone;

b.

the num­ber of il­leg­al bor­der cross­ings and checks on per­sons in the bor­der zone con­cerned is ex­cep­tion­ally high; and

c.

the can­ton­al de­par­ture centre is used for the short-term ac­com­mod­a­tion of for­eign na­tion­als who have been de­tained on en­ter­ing the bor­der zone con­cerned il­leg­ally and whose re­mov­al without form­al pro­ced­ure has been ordered in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 64c para­graph 1 let­ter a.²⁴⁵