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Thursday, January 11, 2018

Switzerland Rejects Citizenship Bids of Residents Who Have Been on Welfare

A new civil rights act has come into force in Switzerland that prevents residents who have been on welfare in the past three years from becoming citizens unless they pay back the money they received to the state.

The new regulations will make it impossible for asylum seekers and migrants who have lived off state handouts in the last three years to become citizens even if they have lived in Switzerland as permanent residents for the required time to make a citizenship application, Kronen Zeitung reports.

The previous law allowed migrants to apply for citizenship as long as they were not on state benefits at the time of their application.

Along with the welfare stipulation, the new act requires migrants to demonstrate a greater level of integration than before including making them prove they have a certain number of Swiss friends and acquaintances.

Language requirements vary by canton with most expecting an intermediate level of language proficiency judged on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) at the B1 or B2 level.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mainstream media hasn't covered this?

Jim said...

Of course not, 4:19.

Anonymous said...

They also don't want you to know that Switzerland has an extremely low crime rate because every adult male is REQUIRED to keep a rifle and ammunition in his house.

Anonymous said...

Why is Switzerland giving these Muslim Mooches welfare anyway!!