Asylum Act
(AsylA)

¹ The pro­vi­sion of the Ad­min­is­trat­ive Pro­ced­ure Act of 20 Decem­ber 1968⁴⁰ on leg­al hol­i­days does not ap­ply to asylum pro­ceed­ings.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall is­sue sup­ple­ment­ary pro­vi­sions on the asylum pro­ced­ure, in par­tic­u­lar to give con­sid­er­a­tion to the spe­cial situ­ation of wo­men and minors in the pro­ced­ure.

^2bis Ap­plic­a­tions for asylum made by un­ac­com­pan­ied minors shall be pro­cessed as a pri­or­ity.⁴¹

³ The in­terests of un­ac­com­pan­ied minor asylum seekers are taken care of for the dur­a­tion of the pro­ced­ure:

a.

in a fed­er­al centre or at an air­port by a per­son nom­in­ated as the trus­ted per­son by the leg­al rep­res­ent­at­ive; this per­son is re­spons­ible for co­ordin­a­tion with the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies; or

b.

by a trus­ted per­son to be nom­in­ated im­me­di­ately by the com­pet­ent can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies, fol­low­ing al­loc­a­tion to the can­ton.⁴²

^3bis If there are in­dic­a­tions that an al­leged for­eign minor has reached the age of ma­jor­ity, SEM may ar­range an ex­pert re­port on that per­son's age.⁴³

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⁵ On no­ti­fic­a­tion of a de­cision un­der Art­icle 23 para­graph 1, 31a or 111c, SEM shall send the asylum seeker or his or her agent the case files at the same time if en­force­ment of the re­mov­al or­der has been ordered.⁴⁵

⁶ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine the role, re­spons­ib­il­it­ies and du­ties of the trus­ted per­son.⁴⁶