{"id":2919,"date":"2026-05-05T06:44:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/?page_id=2919"},"modified":"2026-05-06T07:57:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:57:58","slug":"iran","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Suspension of asylum processing in Switzerland for Iranian asylum seekers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Swiss State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) is responsible for examining asylum requests. UNHCR has no formal role in the asylum procedure and generally does not intervene in individual asylum applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the escalation of hostilities the Middle East in March 2026, the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) has decided to suspend the processing of asylum claims of Iranian nationals until further notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persons from Iran can still formally lodge an asylum claim and will receive a permission to stay in Switzerland (N permit) until a decision is made on their asylum request. They may already be interviewed but will not receive any final decision on their application until further notice. It is not yet clear when decisions will resume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The current decision has no impact on Iranian nationals with refugee status (B and C permit), a provisional admission (F permit) or any other residence permit in Switzerland<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please find more information on\u00a0<strong>Iran<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on this page<\/a>.\u00a0<a id=\"_msocom_1\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspension of asylum processing in Switzerland for Iranian asylum seekers The Swiss State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) is responsible for examining asylum requests. UNHCR has no formal role in the asylum procedure and generally does not intervene in individual asylum applications. Following the escalation of hostilities the Middle East in March 2026, the Swiss State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":563,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2919","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2919","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\/563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3032,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2919\/revisions\/3032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}