Swiss citizenship can be acquired in a number of ways: by marriage, by maternal or paternal descent, if you are a child with a parent with Swiss citizenship, have been recognised as a stateless child, if you believe you have been a Swiss citizen for […]
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Before you can apply for a C Permit: If you are moving to Switzerland for longer than three months you are required to apply for an L Permit or a B Permit. An L Permit is granted for foreign nationals who have an employment contract
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Today Switzerland voted on several motions and 59% of the voting population turned up at the urns. You can read up on the content of the motions in these two posts: The Begrenzungsinitiative explained, The Other Referendums explained. The results are: The Limited Immigration –
The September 27 Referendum Results Read More »
This Sunday September 27 is going to be a busy day at the urns. Not only have we 5 issues to vote on nationally (which you can read about here and here) but another 3 topics to vote on specific to Lucerne. We explain these
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On Saturday September 27 the nation will be voting on 5 different topics. We covered the most controversial last week, the “limited immigration initiative”, which you can read about here. Four national referendum topics remain to be covered. Änderung des Jagdgesetzes – Amendment the hunting
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On the 27th of September the Swiss population will be called back to the urns to vote on a series of initiatives. The one that is creating the most headlines is the “Begrenzungsinitiative”: the “moderate immigration”,initiative launched by the SVP. The “Schweizerische Volks Partei” is
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Just as time waits for no one, it seems that politics doesn’t care about lockdown as this Sunday we will be having both our local parliamentary elections as well as voting in our new local councillors and mayor. To be honest, even with all the
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Last week we wrote about this Sunday’s referendum and now the results are in. The people have spoken and for now there will be no new metro in the city of Lucerne to help alleviate the traffic. 46% of the population turned up to vote
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On Sunday February 9th there will be three referendums for people to vote on. “Die Metro Luzern verdient eine Chance”. Give the Lucerne metro a chance. This is yet another solution being put forward to deal with the coach problem within the city. There have
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On Friday January 31st at 23.00 the United Kingdom will leave the European Union. We look at how it will affect Swiss and UK citizens living in Switzerland. The UK-Swiss Citizens’ Rights Agreement The UK has reached an agreement with Switzerland, which protects the rights
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