GENEVA, Switzerland – Canton Geneva is set to build a new reception center for asylum-seekers near the airport said this week Swiss radio chain, RTS.
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Switzerland: Registered partners will now have access to simplified naturalization procedures
BERN, Switzerland – The Swiss National Council has lifted barriers for the simplified naturalisation procedure of foreign nationals who are registered partners of a Swiss citizen.
Switzerland Says No More to Special Cabaret Visas
BERN, Switzerland – The Swiss federal government announced it will stop issuing the so-called cabaret visa to non-EU residents as of 1 January 2016.
Were the Swiss Right? Permits for EU Workers Hit All-Time High
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Statistics provided by the State Secretariat for Economics (SECO) on 9 July 2014 – confirms the theory that right-wing groups used as fuel to pass a referendum on immigration: the number of European Union workers grew to a whooping 66,200 in 2013 – the highest number since the 2002 free movement agreement with the EU…
Swiss to work on immigration quotas without delay
GENEVA – After today’s tight vote to curtail “mass immigration” the Swiss federal government has vowed it will act as fast as possible to enact new measures. In Bern, the President and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Didier Burkhalter, said this is the result of the Swiss “direct democracy” system and that the Federal Council will…
Swiss divided, approve curbing “mass immigration” (updated)
GENEVA – Switzerland has voted and approved an initiative to counter what the right-wing UDC/SVP party has called, “mass-immigration”.
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