Federal Act
on Swiss Citizenship
(Swiss Citizenship Act, SCA)

¹ In the sim­pli­fied nat­ur­al­isa­tion pro­ced­ure, the cri­ter­ia for in­teg­ra­tion set out in Art­icle 12 para­graphs 1 and 2 must be met.

² Sim­pli­fied nat­ur­al­isa­tion also re­quires that the ap­plic­ant does not pose a risk to Switzer­land's in­tern­al or ex­tern­al se­cur­ity.

³ For ap­plic­ants who do not live in Switzer­land, the re­quire­ments of para­graphs 1 and 2 ap­ply mu­tatis mutandis.