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

¹ After the dis­sol­u­tion of the mar­riage or of the fam­ily house­hold, the spouses and the chil­dren have the right to be gran­ted and have ex­ten­ded a res­id­ence per­mit un­der Art­icles 42, 43 or 44, a short stay per­mit un­der Art­icle 45 in con­junc­tion with Art­icle 32 para­graph 3 or to be gran­ted tem­por­ary ad­mis­sion un­der Art­icle 85c para­graph 1, provided:⁷³

a.⁷⁴

the mar­riage las­ted at least three years and the in­teg­ra­tion cri­ter­ia set out in Art­icle 58a are met; or

b.

im­port­ant per­son­al reas­ons make an ex­ten­ded res­id­ency in Switzer­land ne­ces­sary.

² There are im­port­ant per­son­al reas­ons in terms of para­graph 1 let­ter b in par­tic­u­lar if:

a.

the spouse or a child has been the vic­tim of do­mest­ic vi­ol­ence, with re­gard to which the com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies shall take the fol­low­ing in par­tic­u­lar in­to ac­count:

1.

re­cog­ni­tion as a vic­tim in terms as Art­icle 1 para­graph 1 of the Vic­tim Sup­port Act of 23 March 2007⁷⁵ by the com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies,

2.

con­firm­a­tion of the need for sup­port or pro­tec­tion from an agency spe­cial­ising in do­mest­ic vi­ol­ence, gen­er­ally pub­licly fun­ded,

3.

meas­ures taken by the po­lice or the courts to pro­tect the vic­tim,

4.

med­ic­al or oth­er spe­cial­ist re­ports,

5.

po­lice re­ports and crim­in­al com­plaints, or

6.

crim­in­al con­vic­tions;

b.

the spousedid not marry of his or her own free will; or

c.

so­cial re­in­teg­ra­tion in the coun­try of ori­gin ap­pears to be ser­i­ously pre­ju­diced.⁷⁶

³ The time lim­it for be­ing gran­ted a set­tle­ment per­mit is gov­erned by Art­icle 34.

⁴ Para­graphs 1–3 ap­ply mu­tatis mutandis to co­hab­it­ing part­ners who have been gran­ted a res­id­ence per­mit to re­main with their co­hab­it­ee in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 30 para­graph 1 let­ter b be­cause of ser­i­ous per­son­al hard­ship.⁷⁷