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

¹ SEM is the cent­ral au­thor­ity for con­sulta­tions in con­nec­tion with visa ap­plic­a­tions un­der the Schen­gen As­so­ci­ation Agree­ments.

² In this ca­pa­city, it may use auto­mated pro­ced­ures to dis­close and re­trieve in par­tic­u­lar the fol­low­ing cat­egor­ies of data:

a.

the dip­lo­mat­ic or con­su­lar rep­res­ent­a­tion to which a visa ap­plic­a­tion was sub­mit­ted;

b.

the iden­tity of the per­son con­cerned (name, first names, date of birth, place of birth, na­tion­al­ity, place of res­id­ence, oc­cu­pa­tion and em­ploy­er) as well as, if ne­ces­sary, the iden­tity of their next of kin;

c.

in­form­a­tion about the iden­tity doc­u­ments;

d.

in­form­a­tion about the places of stay and routes trav­elled.

³ The Swiss for­eign rep­res­ent­a­tions may ex­change data re­quired at their loc­a­tion for con­su­lar co­oper­a­tion with their part­ners from states that are bound by a Schen­gen As­so­ci­ation Agree­ment, and in par­tic­u­lar in­form­a­tion about the use of forged or fals­i­fied doc­u­ments and about hu­man smug­gling net­works as well as data of the cat­egor­ies men­tioned in para­graph 2.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may ad­apt the cat­egor­ies of per­son­al data men­tioned in para­graph 2 to the latest de­vel­op­ments of the Schen­gen Ac­quis. For this pur­pose, it shall con­sult the Fed­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion and In­form­a­tion Com­mis­sion­er (FD­PIC)⁴³³.