Beate Jans and State Secretary for Migration Christine Schraner Burgener (right) speak with OSAR Director Miriam Behrens on the sidelines of the Swiss Asylum Seminar in Bern.
Photo: Keystone/Peter Schneider
Federal Counselor Beat Jans defended the merits of the express asylum procedure introduced for applications that have little chance of success at the 9th Swiss Asylum Seminar on Thursday. The measure has been implemented across Switzerland ‘for several days’.
‘This should be good news for all of us,’ the Minister of the Federal Department of Justice and Police (FDJP) argued to participants of the seminar, which brings together asylum communities for two days in Bern.
Because processing asylum applications from refugees whose chances of success are low within 24 hours helps us focus on those who really need help and keeps the asylum field a little further from political goal lines. Take away is allowed,” the Basel resident continued.
During his visit to the federal asylum center in Baudry (NE) in March, Mr Jans promised that the measure, tested in Zurich as part of a pilot project, would be implemented at the Neuchâtel site ‘by the end of April’. When requested, the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) specified that this measure has been implemented since the end of April in six centers with procedural functions, namely in Bern, Altstetten (SG), in addition to Zurich and Baudry. , Chiasso (TI) and Basel.
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