Asylum Act
(AsylA)

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

a.

re­veal their iden­tity;

b.¹⁷

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.¹⁸

co­oper­ate in provid­ing bio­met­ric data;

f.¹⁹

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 1951²⁰.²¹

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