The easiest way to get the Swiss passport

Third generation foreigners must more easily obtain the red passport, but for that, the Swiss will decide on February 12th. If voted in the referendum, the citizenship barriers will be exceeded for about 28,000 third-generation foreigners, who have at least one Swiss-born grandpa or who has had permission to stay in Switzerland, broadcast albinfo.ch.

Now the new figures from the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) in the request of “Blic” are said to have been easier than any fourth naturalisation already. In 2015, 43 thousand people received Swiss citizenship, of which 11,400 had followed the simplified procedures. Third generation foreigners do not win Switzerland's passport automatically, but only by applying. However, the federal government and cantons are responsible for this. Naturalization costs should also vary from a few thousand francs to 750 francs. Citizens willing to become Swiss must integrate.

A woman with a burka is SVP's campaign, selected to fight against naturalisation facilitated for third generation foreigners. But there are many ways to make naturalization easier. Most common is marrying in Switzerland with a Swiss or Swiss. About 9,000 foreigners received citizenship in 2015. Anyone marrying a Swiss outside can easily secure a red passport: 900 people did so in 2015. But there are even strange occasions. For example, nearly dozens of foreigners were registered in 2015, who by law lived in trust to be Swiss citizens and were, in fact, treated as such by authorities. These foreigners had accidentally thought they were Switzerland.

SEM does not provide further information on the exact background of these cases. The conference can also make Swiss fast, for example, athletes, so they can play as fast as possible on a national team. Or the people who have to pass a test and can only do it as Swiss, for example, the state exam for doctors. Eventually, procedures have also accelerated for seriously ill people so that they can be Swiss in their lives. Only children from Switzerland's parents, adopted children and abandoned children can automatically obtain the Swiss passport. This practice will continue to exist after 12 February.