Asylum Act

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Art. 16 Procedural language

1Sub­mis­sions may be made to the fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies in any of­fi­cial lan­guage. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may re­quire sub­mis­sions made in fed­er­al centres by asylum seekers who are rep­res­en­ted by an agent to be in the of­fi­cial lan­guage of the can­ton where the fed­er­al centre is loc­ated.1

2SEM rul­ings or in­ter­im rul­ings are is­sued in the of­fi­cial lan­guage spoken at the asylum seeker’s place of res­id­ence.2

3SEM may derog­ate from para­graph 2 if:

a.
the asylum seeker or his or her leg­al rep­res­ent­at­ive has a good com­mand of a dif­fer­ent of­fi­cial lan­guage;
b.
this is re­quired to deal with ap­plic­a­tions ef­fi­ciently and on time tak­ing ac­count of the num­ber of ap­plic­a­tions re­ceived and the staff situ­ation;
c.
the asylum seeker is al­loc­ated to a can­ton with a dif­fer­ent of­fi­cial lan­guage by a fed­er­al centre.3

1 Amended by No I of the FA of 25 Sept. 2015, in force since 1 March 2019 (AS 2016 3101, 2018 2855; BBl 2014 7991).
2 Amended by No I of the FA of 14 Dec. 2012, in force since 1 Feb. 2014 (AS 2013 4375 5357; BBl 2010 4455, 2011 7325).
3 Amended by No I of the FA of 14 Dec. 2012, in force since 1 Feb. 2014 (AS 2013 4375 5357; BBl 2010 4455, 2011 7325).

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