Asylum Act
(AsylA)

¹ Asylum seekers are ob­liged to co­oper­ate in es­tab­lish­ing the facts. They must in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

re­veal their iden­tity;

b.¹⁶

hand over their travel doc­u­ments and iden­tity pa­pers;

c.

state at the in­ter­view why they are seek­ing asylum;

d.

in­dic­ate any evid­ence in full and sub­mit this without delay or, as far as this seems reas­on­able, en­deav­our to ac­quire such evid­ence with­in an ap­pro­pri­ate peri­od;

e.¹⁷

co­oper­ate in provid­ing bio­met­ric data;

f.¹⁸

un­der­go a med­ic­al ex­am­in­a­tion ordered by SEM (Art. 26a).

² Asylum seekers may be re­quired to ar­range for the trans­la­tion of for­eign-lan­guage doc­u­ments in­to one of Switzer­land’s of­fi­cial lan­guages.

³ Asylum seekers who reside in Switzer­land are ob­liged make them­selves avail­able to the fed­er­al and can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies dur­ing the pro­ced­ure. They must in­form the can­ton­al or com­mun­al au­thor­ity com­pet­ent un­der can­ton­al le­gis­la­tion (the can­ton­al au­thor­ity) of their ad­dress and any change to this im­me­di­ately.

^3bis Per­sons, who fail to co­oper­ate without val­id reas­on or fail to make them­selves avail­able for more than 20 days lose their right to have the pro­ced­ure con­tin­ued. This also ap­plies to per­sons who fail for more than 5 days to make them­selves avail­able to the asylum au­thor­it­ies in a fed­er­al centre without a val­id reas­on. Their ap­plic­a­tions are can­celled without a form­al de­cision be­ing taken. No new ap­plic­a­tion may be filed with­in three years. The fore­go­ing is sub­ject to com­pli­ance with the Refugee Con­ven­tion of 28 Ju­ly 1951¹⁹.²⁰

⁴ In the event of an en­force­able re­mov­al rul­ing be­ing is­sued, the per­sons con­cerned are ob­liged to co­oper­ate in ob­tain­ing val­id travel doc­u­ments.