Asylum Act
(AsylA)

¹ SEM shall re­voke asylum or de­prive a per­son of refugee status:

a.

if the for­eign na­tion­al con­cerned has fraud­u­lently ob­tained asylum or refugee status by provid­ing false in­form­a­tion or by con­ceal­ing es­sen­tial facts;

b.

if any of the grounds stated in Art­icle 1 let­ter C num­bers 1–6 of the Refugee Con­ven­tion of 28 Ju­ly 1951¹⁶⁷ ap­ply.

^1bis It shall de­prive a per­son of refugee status if the refugee con­cerned travels to his or her nat­ive coun­try or coun­try of ori­gin. It shall not de­prive a per­son of refugee status if the per­son con­cerned cred­ibly demon­strates that the jour­ney to his or her nat­ive coun­try or coun­try of ori­gin was made un­der duress.¹⁶⁸

² SEM shall re­voke asylum if a refugee:

a.

has vi­ol­ated or rep­res­ents a threat to Switzer­land’s in­tern­al or ex­tern­al se­cur­ity or has com­mit­ted a par­tic­u­larly ser­i­ous crim­in­al of­fence;

b.

has failed to com­ply with a travel ban un­der Art­icle 59c para­graph 1 second sen­tenceFNIA¹⁶⁹.¹⁷⁰

³ The re­voc­a­tion of asylum or the depriva­tion of refugee status ap­plies in re­la­tion to all fed­er­al and can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies.

⁴ The re­voc­a­tion of asylum or the depriva­tion of refugee status does not ex­tend to the spouse or the chil­dren of the per­son con­cerned.¹⁷¹