Until fairly recently, anyone on a C-permit who had lived in Switzerland for 15 years was able to draw welfare payments without risking their permit. In 2019, a new law changed this. Article 63 of Switzerland’s federal law on foreigners (page 32) sets out a number of conditions that allow residency rights to be taken […]
Expulsion of Cameroonian man after 10 years in Switzerland
Recently, a court in the canton of Bern confirmed the expulsion of a Cameroonian man who has failed to integrate, according to the newspaper Le Matin. The man, who arrived in Switzerland 10 years ago, had his first scrape with the law in 2015 when he was convicted of robbery. Since then he has been […]
Swiss-born man faces deportation
A convicted repeat offender who was born and grew up in Switzerland faces deportation. The turkish citizen, born in 1973, started breaking the law in his twenties and received his first official warning at the age of 22 for crimes committed abroad, according to the Aargauer Zeitung. Eventually the man ended up facing charges in […]
