Asylum Act

¹The can­tons shall reach an agree­ment on the dis­tri­bu­tion of asylum seekers.

^1bisThe spe­cial ser­vices provided by can­tons where fed­er­al centres or air­ports are loc­ated shall be ap­pro­pri­ately taken in­to ac­count in the dis­tri­bu­tion of asylum seekers.²

²If the can­tons can­not reach an agree­ment, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall, after hear­ing them, set out the cri­ter­ia for dis­tri­bu­tion in an or­din­ance.

³SEM shall al­loc­ate asylum seekers to the can­tons (can­tons of al­loc­a­tion).³ In do­ing so, it shall take ac­count of the in­terests of the can­tons and of the asylum seekers that are worthy of pro­tec­tion. Asylum seekers may only con­test the de­cision on al­loc­a­tion if it vi­ol­ates the prin­ciple of fam­ily unity.

⁴Per­sons whose re­mov­al has been ordered and in re­spect of whom a de­cision on asylum has be­come leg­ally bind­ing in a fed­er­al centre or whose re­quest for asylum was can­celled in a fed­er­al centre⁴ shall not be al­loc­ated to a can­ton.