Switzerland

Country Report

Country Report: Switzerland Last updated: 20/05/25

Author

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The 2024 update of this report was written by Adriana Romer and Esther Omlin (temporary protection annex), legal unit of the Swiss Refugee Council, and was edited by ECRE.

This report draws on jurisprudence of the Federal Administrative Court (FAC), publicly available statistics by the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM), media releases of the SEM and the Federal Council, information and statistics provided by the SEM upon request, newspaper articles, documents from the political process, and the experience of the Swiss Refugee Council (SRC) from its daily work in different functions, especially the coordination of the different legal advisory offices. The Swiss Refugee Council would like to thank the organisations and authorities that provided us with information for the purpose of this report.

The 2024 update to the AIDA country report on Switzerland was shared with the State Secretariat for Migration to provide an opportunity for comments. Any feedback received was reviewed by the author and, where appropriate, incorporated into the final version of the report.

The information in this report is up-to-date as of 31 December 2024, unless otherwise stated

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To access the report, you can download the full report (in PDF version) above or navigate through the Table of Contents on the right column.

Switzerland

Table of contents

  • Statistics
  • Overview of the legal framework
  • Overview of the main changes since the previous report update
  • Asylum Procedure
  • Reception Conditions
  • Detention of Asylum Seekers
  • Content of International Protection