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

¹ The in­form­a­tion sys­tem con­tains data on for­eign na­tion­als:

a.

whose re­mov­al, ex­pul­sion or ju­di­cial ex­pul­sion is to be en­forced;

b.

who leave Switzer­land vol­un­tar­ily;

c.

who have re­ques­ted coun­selling on re­turn or have re­ceived re­turn as­sist­ance.

² It con­tains the fol­low­ing cat­egor­ies of data:

a.

the sur­name and first name(s), date of birth and ad­dress (ba­sic data), sex, place of birth, na­tion­al­ity, eth­ni­city, re­li­gion, moth­er tongue and civil status of the for­eign na­tion­al and the names of his or her par­ents;

b.

the bio­met­ric data;

c.

the part of the elec­tron­ic file re­lat­ing to re­turn un­der Art­icle 4 para­graph 1 let­ter d of the Fed­er­al Act of 20 June 2003⁴²³ on the In­form­a­tion Sys­tem on Mat­ters re­lat­ing to For­eign Na­tion­als and Asylum;

d.

the form of re­mov­al or vol­un­tary re­turn, the travel doc­u­ment used and the fin­an­cial pay­ments dis­bursed on de­par­ture;

e.

the data on coun­selling on re­turn and the grant­ing of re­turn as­sist­ance;

f.

the data on meas­ures to ob­tain travel doc­u­ments;

g.

the data re­quired for the ad­min­is­tra­tion and su­per­vi­sion of the vari­ous phases of de­par­ture from Switzer­land;

h.

the med­ic­al data re­quired to as­sess the per­son’s fit­ness to travel;

i.

the res­ult of searches in RI­POL and the SIS;

j.

the loc­a­tion, dur­a­tion and form of de­ten­tion;

k.

the per­son’s be­ha­vi­our­al char­ac­ter­ist­ics and the com­puls­ory meas­ures that may be or have been ordered dur­ing the flight;

l.

de­tails of the flight tick­ets and the it­in­er­ary;

m.

data on the per­sons en­trus­ted with ac­com­pa­ny­ing the per­son con­cerned for med­ic­al, so­cial or poli­cing reas­ons;

n.

the data re­quired to pre­pare cost state­ments and make pay­ments in con­nec­tion with the re­turn.

³ The per­son­al data un­der para­graph 2 let­ters a–c and j are copied auto­mat­ic­ally from ZEMIS. If these data are mod­i­fied in the in­form­a­tion sys­tem, the up­dated data are auto­mat­ic­ally copied in­to ZEMIS.

⁴ SEM shall in­form per­sons whose data is re­cor­ded in the sys­tem of the reas­on for pro­cessing these data, the data cat­egor­ies and the data re­cip­i­ent.