Published on 12 October 2025

Key legal foundations

Federal Act on Foreign Nationals and Integration (FNIA)
(SR 142.20)
specifically Articles 92, 104a, 122a, 122b and 122c

Ordinance on Entry and the Granting of Visas (VGO)
(SR 142.204)
specifically Article 25

Federal Act on Administrative Procedure (APA)
(SR 172.021)

Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders (Schengen Implementation Convention, SIC, OJ of 22 September 2000 L 239)
specifically Article 26

Council Directive 2001/51/EC of 28 June 2001 supplementing the provisions of Article 26 of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 (OJ of 10 July 2001 L 187/45)

Council Directive 2004/82/EC of 29 April 2004 on the obligation of carriers to communicate passenger data (OJ of 6 August 2004 L 261/24)

Annexes to the Convention on International Civil Aviation establishing the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
specifically Annex 9: Facilitation