Switzerland signs stagiaire agreement with the USA
Published: Friday, Oct 11th 2024, 13:00
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On Friday, Switzerland signed a new agreement with the USA on the exchange of trainees and young professionals. The agreement is intended to facilitate the mobility of these individuals between the two countries for a limited period of time.
The State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) announced on Friday that this would allow trainees and young professionals to expand their skills in their field of study or profession and deepen their specialist knowledge. The agreement comes into force at the end of November and applies to Swiss nationals between the ages of 18 and 35. It replaces an agreement from 1980.
According to the SEM, participants must either be in training or have a professional or university degree. People who do not meet these requirements are also eligible for an exchange, provided a certain amount of professional experience can be demonstrated.
The participants from both countries will receive a temporary residence and work permit for a period of twelve months, which can be extended by six months, the statement continued.
Switzerland has also concluded such stagiaire agreements with other countries, including Argentina, Japan, South Africa and Indonesia. Since the first stagiaire agreement in 1936, around 40,000 Swiss nationals have completed an internship abroad, the SEM wrote. A good 58,000 foreign trainees have gotten to know the Swiss working world.
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