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

¹ Swiss cit­izens shall on re­quest be re­lieved of their Swiss cit­izen­ship if they are not res­id­ent in Switzer­land and hold or have been as­sured of an­oth­er na­tion­al­ity. Art­icle 31 ap­plies mu­tatis mutandis.

² Re­lief of cit­izen­ship is gran­ted by the au­thor­ity in the can­ton of ori­gin.

³ Loss of can­ton­al and com­mun­al cit­izen­ship and thus of Swiss cit­izen­ship take ef­fect on ser­vice of the cer­ti­fic­ate of re­lief of cit­izen­ship.