{"id":165,"date":"2020-03-28T10:21:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T10:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/?page_id=165"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:53:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:53:21","slug":"rights-and-duties","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/rights-and-duties\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights and Duties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your rights and duties <strong>vary depending on your legal status<\/strong> in Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) provides a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sem.admin.ch\/dam\/sem\/en\/data\/publiservice\/publikationen\/info-flue-va\/info-flue-va-en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">detailed brochure<\/a> in different languages on the rights of recognized refugees (<strong>B permit<\/strong>), temporarily admitted refugees (<strong>refugee F permit<\/strong>) and temporarily admitted persons (<strong>foreigner F permit<\/strong>). You can also visit this <a href=\"https:\/\/integration-info.ch\/shortinfo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>, which provides comprehensive information on your rights and obligations (including <strong>S permit<\/strong>) in various languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consult the Swiss Refugee Council\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.refugeecouncil.ch\/topics\/asylum-in-switzerland\/residence-permit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tables<\/a> on rights and duties (only in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.refugeecouncil.ch\/fileadmin\/user_upload\/Themen\/Asyl_in_der_Schweiz\/Aufenthaltsstatus\/200430_Tableau_droits_et_obligations_fr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">French<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.refugeecouncil.ch\/fileadmin\/user_upload\/Themen\/Asyl_in_der_Schweiz\/Aufenthaltsstatus\/200430_Aufenthaltsstatus_Tabelle_de.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">German<\/a>). They provide further details for holders of an <strong>N permit<\/strong> and <strong>individuals whose asylum application has been rejected<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular\"><table class=\"has-white-background-color has-background has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>If you are looking for information specific to rights and duties of beneficiaries of protection status S, please consult this page: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/ukraine\/life-in-switzerland-for-s-status-beneficiaries\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"718\"><strong>Life in Switzerland for S Status-Beneficiaries &#8211; UNHCR Switzerland<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your rights and duties vary depending on your legal status in Switzerland. The State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) provides a detailed brochure in different languages on the rights of recognized refugees (B permit), temporarily admitted refugees (refugee F permit) and temporarily admitted persons (foreigner F permit). You can also visit this website, which provides comprehensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/listing_page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-165","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165","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=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2184,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165\/revisions\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}