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

¹ The com­pet­ent can­ton­al au­thor­ity shall de­port for­eign na­tion­als if:

a.

they fail to com­ply with the de­par­ture dead­line;

b.

if their re­mov­al or ex­pul­sion may be en­forced im­me­di­ately;

c.¹⁶⁹

they are be­ing held in de­ten­tion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 76 and 77 and a leg­ally bind­ing ex­pul­sion or­der, a re­turn de­cision or a leg­ally bind­ing de­cision on ex­pul­sion un­der Art­icle 66a or 66a^bis SCC¹⁷⁰ or Art­icle 49a or 49a^bis MCC¹⁷¹ has been is­sued.

² In the case of for­eign na­tion­als who are able to travel law­fully to more than one state, the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity may de­port them to the coun­try of their choice.

³ The com­pet­ent au­thor­ity may post­pone de­port­a­tion for an ap­pro­pri­ate peri­od if spe­cial cir­cum­stances such as the ill-health of the per­son con­cerned or a lack of trans­port so re­quire. The com­pet­ent au­thor­ity shall con­firm the post­pone­ment of de­port­a­tion to the per­son con­cerned in writ­ing.¹⁷²

⁴ The com­pet­ent au­thor­ity shall en­sure be­fore the de­port­a­tion of un­ac­com­pan­ied for­eign minors that he or she will be re­turned in the State of re­turn to a fam­ily mem­ber, a nom­in­ated guard­i­an or re­cep­tion fa­cil­it­ies that guar­an­tee the pro­tec­tion of the child.¹⁷³