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

¹ Re­in­state­ment of cit­izen­ship re­quires that the ap­plic­ant:

a.

is suc­cess­fully in­teg­rated if he or she lives in Switzer­land;

b.

has close ties with Switzer­land if he or she lives abroad;

c.

shows re­spect for pub­lic se­cur­ity and or­der;

d.

re­spects the val­ues en­shrined in the Fed­er­al Con­sti­tu­tion; and

e.

does not pose a risk to Switzer­land’s in­tern­al or ex­tern­al se­cur­ity.

² For ap­plic­ants not res­id­ent in Switzer­land, the re­quire­ments of para­graph 1 let­ters c–e ap­ply by ana­logy.