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

¹ The FD­FA in con­sulta­tion with SEM may au­thor­ise third parties to carry out the fol­low­ing tasks in re­la­tion to the visa pro­ced­ure:

a.

ar­range­ment of ap­point­ments with a view to grant­ing a visa;

b.

re­ceiv­ing doc­u­ments (visa ap­plic­a­tion form, pass­port, sup­port­ing doc­u­ments);

c.

char­ging of fees;

d.

re­cord­ing of bio­met­ric­al data for the cent­ral visa in­form­a­tion sys­tem;

e.

re­turn­ing pass­ports to their hold­ers at the end of the pro­ced­ure.

² The FD­FA and SEM shall en­sure that the third parties to whom du­ties are del­eg­ated com­ply with the reg­u­la­tions on data pro­tec­tion and se­cur­ity.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine the con­di­tions un­der which third parties may be del­eg­ated du­ties in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1.