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

In or­der to ful­fil its du­ties un­der this Act, the SEM may pro­cess per­son­al data, in­clud­ing data that per­mits an as­sess­ment of wheth­er the ap­plic­ant meets the per­son­al re­quire­ments, and par­tic­u­larly sens­it­ive data on re­li­gious be­liefs, polit­ic­al activ­it­ies, health, so­cial as­sist­ance meas­ures and ad­min­is­trat­ive or crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings and pen­al­ties. It shall main­tain an elec­tron­ic in­form­a­tion sys­tem for this pur­pose in ac­cord­ance with the Fed­er­al Act of 20 June 2003⁷ on the In­form­a­tion Sys­tem for For­eign Na­tion­als and Asylum Mat­ters.