Asylum Act
(AsylA)

¹ Asylum in Switzer­land shall ex­pire if:

a.¹⁷⁴

the refugee has lived more than one year abroad;

b.

the refugee has been gran­ted asylum or per­mis­sion to stay per­man­ently in an­oth­er coun­try;

c.

the refugee re­nounces their refugee status;

d.¹⁷⁵

an or­der for re­mov­al or ex­pul­sion has been ex­ecuted;

e.¹⁷⁶

an ex­pul­sion or­der un­der Art­icle 66a or 66a^bis SCC¹⁷⁷ or Art­icle 49a or 49a^bis MCC¹⁷⁸ has be­come leg­ally en­force­able.

² SEM may ex­tend the dead­line in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 let­ter a un­der spe­cial cir­cum­stances.

³ Refugee status and asylum shall ex­pire if the for­eign na­tion­al ac­quires Swiss na­tion­al­ity in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 1 num­ber C let­ter 3 of the Refugee Con­ven­tion of 28 Ju­ly 1951¹⁷⁹.¹⁸⁰