Asylum Act

¹Asylum seekers, per­sons in need of pro­tec­tion without a res­id­ence per­mit and per­sons sub­ject to a leg­ally bind­ing re­mov­al or­der who have as­sets at their dis­pos­al are li­able to pay the spe­cial charge. The spe­cial charge serves to cov­er the over­all costs in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 85 para­graph 1 gen­er­ated by all these per­sons and their de­pend­ents.

²The spe­cial charge is levied by con­fis­cat­ing as­sets.

³The com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies may only levy the spe­cial charge if the per­sons con­cerned:

a.

are un­able to prove that the as­sets de­rive from earned in­come or com­pens­a­tion for loss of earned in­come or from pub­lic so­cial as­sist­ance be­ne­fits;

b.

are un­able to prove the ori­gin of the as­sets; or

c.

are able prove the ori­gin of the as­sets, but these ex­ceed the amount de­term­ined by the Fed­er­al Coun­cil.

⁴The ob­lig­a­tion to pay the spe­cial charge con­tin­ues to ap­ply for a max­im­um of ten years after fil­ing the ap­plic­a­tion for asylum or the ap­plic­a­tion for tem­por­ary pro­tec­tion.

³The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine the amount of the spe­cial charge and dur­a­tion of the ob­lig­a­tion to pay.