{"id":160,"date":"2020-03-28T10:15:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T10:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/?page_id=160"},"modified":"2026-05-06T06:12:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T06:12:49","slug":"asylum-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/asylum-in-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Asylum in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fdf799\"><strong>In Switzerland, UNHCR has no formal role in the asylum procedure. UNHCR generally does not intervene in individual cases, nor does it provide individual legal representation or counselling.<\/strong><br>If you received a <strong>negative decision<\/strong> on your asylum application, we <strong>recommend that you contact your legal representative immediately<\/strong>. If you do not have one, please refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/where-to-seek-help\/legal-counselling\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/where-to-seek-help\/legal-counselling\/\">list of free legal advisory services<\/a>. <strong>UNHCR generally does not intervene.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Switzerland, UNHCR has no formal role in the asylum procedure. UNHCR generally does not intervene in individual cases, nor does it provide individual legal representation or counselling.If you received a negative decision on your asylum application, we recommend that you contact your legal representative immediately. If you do not have one, please refer to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/sectioned.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-160","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2980,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions\/2980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}