Attention, Switzerland cancels 50 passports a year for this reason

Exploitation of the easy way to obtain the Swiss passport (naturalisation) costs an average of 50 people within the year with the annulment of this passport. This certainly happens when a foreigner or a foreigner is found to have presented false information when he has linked his marriage to the Swiss. ch newspaper “Zemntralschweiz am SOntag” Thus, Frequent marriages aimed at realising the benefits of Swiss citizenship often end with naturalization canceled.

This occurred in 46 cases during the past year (2016). It's about the cases where the federation has stepped in to prevent the Swiss passport from granting abusers, written the newspaper “zentralschweiz am Sontag”, referring to information from the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM). While according to this source, over the past ten years the federation has cancelled a total of 562 naturalizations on this base. Or, on average, each year this has happened to some 50 people.

But procedures to cancel Swiss citizenship usually take a lot of time because detailed research needs to be done, transmit albinfo. TEM takes this burden into consideration because only the consistent fight of abuse contributes over the long term to naturalisation.