migration.swiss 2022

At the end of 2022, there were

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foreign nationals living in Switzerland, 51,561 more than in the previous year.


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of foreign nationals came from EU/EFTA countries, primarily Italy, Germany, Portugal, France and Spain. These five countries account for more than 50% of the permanent foreign resident population.

The number of people receiving the Swiss passport through naturalisation reached

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in 2022. In 2021 it was 37,129.

The Federal Council activated protection status S for the first time on 12 March 2022. By the end of the year,

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people had applied for this status. Status S was granted in 72,611 cases.

Asylum requests were filed by

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people in Switzerland. More than half of applicants were from Afghanistan, Turkey or Eritrea.

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asylum requests, an increase of 2,135 over the previous year.