As one can live
in Switzerland
Permit types:
The permit G
The permit L
The permit B
The permit C
The permit with the fiscal convention
As one can live in
France
As one can live in
Switzerland.
How a
foreigner can permanently living in Switzerland.
If
you are not Swiss citizen, you need a residence permit, in
order to be able to live more than three months in Switzerland,
since the tourist visa does not permit a stay for more than
three months. There are various permit types and different
ways to obtain them, depending of the purpose of your
residence in Switzerland.
If
you are going to Switzerland with the intention to
work you must find first a work, which should agree
to a certain requirements. You must be qualified as a highly
specialised professional, both from intellectual and practical
points of view. This will give you the right for getting the
Residence permit but only for a certain.
If
you intend to come to Switzerland with the purpose to
found a society and to work for CH, then usually you
will not have problems related with getting the Residence
Permit.
If
you plan tocome to Switzerland with the intention to study
then you must then find a school, which is suitable for your
needs and make a request through this school with the aim to
get stay permission for study reasons.
In
addition, you wish to come to Switzerland and to live
on an unearned income in Switzerland. If your
declared income is high enough and you intend to live in
Switzerland, and there for not only to use this country as a
fiscal and mail address, then you can apply for the permit B,
that is a permission of residence which has an annual duration
and gives you the right to live in CH during one year, and at
the same time you will be able also to pay significantly lower
taxes then in other European countries. In such case generally
one foreigner should posses the declared yearly income which
is not less then CHF 150'000.-- is able to get the Residence
Permit and furthermore, in this case the tax amount is about
30%.
One
of the ways to get the Residence permit to stay in Switzerland
is to marry a Swiss citizen and to obtain in
such way the stay permission immediately; after 5 years of
stay you can obtain the domicile permission and the Swiss
citizenship. That is the simplest way on condition that a
proper family partner can be found.
It
is useful to know that Switzerland favours the citizens of the
Western European countries, when the decision is taken about
the work permit or residence permit of Category B. One must
thus decide whether he likes to get a work permit or B-permit
issues. Concerning the case of getting the stay permission in
accordance with a fiscal convention, there are no
special preferences.
Type of
permit, which is issued by Switzerland for foreigners and that
our society is also in a position to provide you:
The
first permit, that is given to the majority of foreigners is
the permit B, it concerns a yearly permit,
with a condition of being employed or of living really in
Switzerland for a sufficient period of a year.
If
you want to come to Switzerland to live on the income from a
society localized to outside of Switzerland (society manager,
inheriting, being a famous sportsman, or movie-star), you can
demand the so-called permit in accordance with fiscal
convention, a version of the permit B that will allow
you to pay taxes in comparison with the other European
countries.
If
in your country you are under suppression because of your
political ideas or ethnical affiliation, then you can request
for the permit for political refugees.
However, if you want to come in to Switzerland to work as a
season worker, then you must request for a special permit A.
Permit C is a full time residence permit,
which permits you in the further to buy a real estate property
for getting a profit, to operate and manage an independent
society. In order to obtain this permit, you must for example
to live during some years in Switzerland (5 - 10 years
depending on the case) and show yourself as a loyal person
without creating problems to the law-enforcement bodies.
The
final phase is the acquisition of the Swiss
citizenship to all the effects, which is generally
granted after 12 years of residence in Switzerland. Moreover,
it is necessary to pass an exam of knowledge of the
Swiss history and culture and to demonstrate that you have
already integrated with the society where you live.
Definition of the permit
The
Permit G
This
is therefore the permission for the border-workers who are those
persons who live close to the Helvetian border, at least a
day-distance. This permission gives the right to the foreign
worker to live and to work in Switzerland indepently and also to
acquire shares of real estate in Switzerland. In practice, the
border-worker can enter in Switzerland on Monday morning and
exit from the country on Friday evening, without the obligatiory
re-enter daily his own country of residence. There also the
right exists for changing the workplace and/or profession
without attending the relevant authorities. The right exists to
spend the night as any common Swiss citizen.
The opening of the frontiers to the
free circulation of the persons allows therefore also l'exercise
of an independent activity. Exercise of an independent
activity must however be demonstrated. For the rest they are
worth the dispositions of law applied to the employee
workers. According to the bilateral agreements is working
independent border the citizen of a contracting part
that exercises independent activity on the territory of the
other contracting part and that day or to the week
returns at least once to the place of origin. For these persons they are worth the same
dispositions applicable to the employee border-workers.
The border-worker who wishes to exercise independent
activity receives one first authorization of the duration
of six months, than he allows it to start the own activity.
Upon maturity of six months it must try to exercise
effectively lucrative indipendent activity. If does not
succeed to produce such test before the expiration, but he
has the real possibilities to obtain it, can be an agreement
to additional expiration of two months.
Inscription to registry of commerce of a company
characterizes them or of a company they are a sufficient
test.This inscription is not sufficient for the liberal
profssioni (doctors, lawyers, etc.) the artists and the
musicians. Further evidence can be books as they can demonstrate
the actual existence
of an activity. If existed the dispositions of
sanitary police or economic these must be respected. The
Canton cannot introduce restrictive or proibitive
measures for the persons who must carry the test to prove an independent activity. In case the test was valid is
released a stay permission of 5 year long. Regarding
the fiscal, the borders are in principle taxable in the
Canton where they exercise their independent activity.
The
Permit L
This
permit confirms the right to live and work in Switzerland
for a short period duration, for a maximum of 364 days. The
possibility exists to change the profession and employer, but in
this case it is necessary to notify the period of the stay and
the name and address within 8 days. The duration of the
permit is equal to that of the employment contract. This
permit is subordinated to the decision of the Office of the
foreign labour wich should consider the contingent, the
priorities of the native workers and the control of the
conditions of paying wages to them. The possibility is not given
to practice an independent activity.
The
Permit B
The
permit b is necessary release if you wishe to work in Switzerland on the arc of
an entire year, or if it only means living of the unearned
income which you already it enjoys to the foreign country.
Such allowed it is relatively easy to obtain if it is highly
specialist and its qualification is searched from the Swiss
companies and it is a deficiency of Swiss workers in this
field, or is rich enough from being able living in Switzerland
without attendance from part of the State. Moreover, if deep
it a society in Switzerland that has a serious and effective
activity, and that through such society you will assume of the
dependent, then you will be able to obtain the B permit enough
easy.
The
Permit C
This permit is the last step before obtaining the
citizenship to all the effects. It confers nearly the same
rights of the Swiss citizens, especially for whom it regards
the investments in the real estate industry. The same one
comes to release, to dependency of the cases, after 5/10 years
of residence in Switzerland.
The
permit with the fiscal convention
The
permiit in accordance with the Such Fiscal Convention is an
option of the B permission and is issued for the wheel-off
people, who intend to remove to Switzerland in order to live
there and not to work for Switzerland. It must be at least
understood that they should declare at least one million Swiss
francs and an annual income not less than 150'000 CHF.
Besides, it will be required to live not less than 180 days in
Switzerland. The main advantage of such condition is the
posibility to pay less tax rate which does not correspond to
the actual income and in any case less then in other European
countries.
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PERMITS, EXCLUSVELY MEMBERS OF THE EU AND THE EFTA |
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DURATION |
TYPE |
DESCRIPTION |
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Cantonal permits |
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5 years |
Permit B
EU /AELE |
For new workers who must
reside in the canton. Familiar reunion and geographic
and professional mobility. Exercise of an independent
activity subordinate to special
authorization. Limited contingent. |
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5 years |
Permit B
EU /AELE |
For workers who can
justify a job period of 30 months in Switzerland.
Familiar reunion and geographic and professional
mobility. Exercise of an independent activity
subordinate to special authorization. No contingent. |
|
Short
duration,
less then 12 months |
Permit L
EU /AELE |
For practised activities
for a maximum of 364 days, in according to the duration
of the contract. It can be renewed without to leave the
territory. Familiar reunion and geographic and
professional mobility. Limited contingent. |
|
Short duration,
less then 4 months |
Permit L
EU /AELE |
Mandate of short duration.
Familiar reunion and geographic and professional
mobility. No contingent. |
|
Short duration, maximum 90
days for year |
Permit L
EU /AELE |
For employer of services
of individual title or for an enterprise. It allows
to
search employment , the treatment or the medical cures.
Familiar reunion and geographic and professional
mobility. No contingent. |
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Border-worker
5 years |
Permit G
EU /AELE |
For workers domiciled in
border-worker zones. Possibility to acquire a secondary
residence on the entire Swiss territory. Weekly return
is obligatory. Freedom to work and to live on the Swiss
territory. No contingent. |
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PERMITS, FOR THE THIRD PARTY STATES (OUTSIDE THE EU AND
THE EFTA) |
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DURATION |
TYPE |
DESCRIPTION |
|
Cantonal permits |
|
yearly |
Permit B |
For workers who must
reside in the canton. Annual renew. Authorized familiar
reunion. Geographic and professional mobility
subordinate to authorization. Limited contingent. |
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Maximum
12 months |
Permit L |
For specific mandates, in
according to the duration of the employment contract. Limited
contingent. |
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Maximum
4 months |
Permit L |
For specific mandates, in
according to the duration of the employment contract. Familiar
reunion and movement not authorized. Limited contingent. |
|
120
days not consecutives |
Permit L |
For specific mandates.
Familiar reunion and movement not authorized. No
contingent. |
