Recognised refugee with asylum — B permit

Persons requesting asylum are granted refugee status and asylum in Switzerland if their reasons for claiming asylum are credible, and if they are in danger of persecution as defined by asylum law.

Persons to whom asylum has been granted have the right to a residence permit in the canton in which they legally stay.

Refugees are persons who in their native country or in their country of last residence are subject to serious disadvantages or have a well-founded fear of being exposed to such disadvantages for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or due to their political opinions. 2 Serious disadvantages include a threat to life, physical integrity or freedom as well as measures that exert intolerable psychological pressure. Motives for seeking asylum specific to women must be taken into account.

The application for asylum must be filed at a border control point at a Swiss airport, on entry at an open border crossing or in a federal centre. Article 24a paragraph 3 is reserved. 2 An application may only be filed by a person who is at the Swiss border or on Swiss territory.

Under the current Asylum Act, asylum applications cannot be submitted abroad.

If the conditions for processing an asylum application are met, the State Secretariat for Migration examines whether applicants are eligible for refugee status.

An appeal against a negative decision must be submitted to the FAC within thirty days after notification of the negative decision by SEM. An appeal against the dismissal of a case must be submitted to the FAC within five working days.