Family reunification: In-depth information
The SRC Family Reunification Service is committed to protecting the right to family life for asylum seekers. We reinforce application of the basic legal principles, facilitate contact to legal specialists, provide materials and work closely together with practitioners to develop solutions together for complex cases.
What we offer
We provide our legal expertise and specialists who face the challenges of family reunification in the asylum sector.
Legal expertise
Focuses
In our capacity as a service, we define priority topics that we work on together with applicants, specialists in social and integration services and legal experts.
Our focuses:
Unaccompanied minors with refugee or stateless status who wish to bring their parents to Switzerland.
Persons receiving supplementary benefits.
Persons receiving social welfare assistance – e.g. for the care of small children, their status as working poor or due to health-related restrictions.
Cooperation
The SRC Family Reunification Service strives for close cooperation with legal practitioners in order to define joint operating and strategic targets. As a national and international service with a small legal team, we rely on cooperation.
Your possible contribution:
Transmit current information, in particular on context-related questions based on specific cases.
Document the practice in the cantons and share relevant case studies.
Identify suitable cases for the strategic process.
Share experiences and observations
Would you like to make us aware of aspects that you consider strategically relevant in connection with family reunification?
Would you like to report a recurring situation that hinders processes or refers to a practice or legal context, that contravenes basic principles and could be incorporated into our work?
Contact us. Your contributions are valuable and help us to improve the practice and strengthen the right to family life.