Asylum Act

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