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After World War II, Switzerland experienced an economic boom that fuelled a demand for labour. Agreement-based recruitment programs with southern European countries, particularly Italy, [2] Spain, [3] and Portugal, facilitated the arrival of thousands of “guest workers.” During this period, Switzerland’s immigration laws centred on ...
Switzerland is also a party to the Schengen and Dublin agreements. They were signed on 26 October 2004 and the collaboration actually began on 12 December 2008. [1] In 2000, foreign permanent residents accounted for 20.9% of the population. In 2011, the percentage rose to 22.8%. In 2011, 22,551 people filed an application for asylum in ...
Pr. 1 January 2012 registered immigrants in Norway numbered 547,000, [50] making up about 11% of the total population. Many are fairly recent immigrants as immigration has gradually increased [51] in Norway and per 2012 is very high, both historically and compared to other countries. [52] Net immigration in 2011 was 47,032, a national record ...
[5] [6] [7] Switzerland, which is a member of EFTA but not of the EEA, is not bound by the Directive but rather has a separate multilateral agreement on the free movement with the EU and its member states. Freedom of movement between Switzerland and the other EFTA countries happens in accordance with the EFTA convention. [8]
Transition in stages until free person movement between the European Union and Switzerland. As of 2014, 23.4% of Switzerland's population are foreigners (9% in Germany). The net immigration is 80,000 people per year, 1% of the total population (three times more than e.g. in Germany, four times more than in the United States).
A Swiss passport. Visa requirements for Swiss citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Switzerland.. As of July 2024, Swiss citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 190 countries and territories, ranking the Swiss passport 4th, tied with passport from Belgium, Denmark, New Zealand, Norway and United Kingdom in the world ...
A small Ohio town is the latest victim of the Biden-Harris administration’s open border policy after 3,000 migrants from the West African nation of Mauritania moved in in the past year — lured ...
close ties to Switzerland, i.e. travelling regularly to Switzerland, being an active member of a Swiss club abroad, and/or having close relations to the family of their Swiss spouse. Spouses acquiring Swiss citizenship by facilitated naturalisation will acquire the citizenship of their Swiss spouse's place and canton of origin.