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

¹ The child of for­eign par­ents may on ap­plic­a­tion be nat­ur­al­ised ac­cord­ing to a sim­pli­fied pro­ced­ure if he or she meets the fol­low­ing re­quire­ments:

a.

at least one grand­par­ent was born in Switzer­land or it is cred­ibly demon­strated that he or she ac­quired a right of res­id­ence;

b.

at least one par­ent has ob­tained a per­man­ent res­id­ence per­mit, has been res­id­ent in Switzer­land for at least ten years, and at­ten­ded com­puls­ory school­ing in Switzer­land for at least five years;

c.

the child was born in Switzer­land;

d.

the child holds a per­man­ent res­id­ence per­mit and has at­ten­ded com­puls­ory school­ing in Switzer­land for at least five years.

² The ap­plic­a­tion must be sub­mit­ted be­fore the child reaches the age of 25.

³ The nat­ur­al­ised child ac­quires the cit­izen­ship of his or her com­mune and can­ton of res­id­ence at the time of nat­ur­al­isa­tion.