Three quarters of the 2023 country referrals have been carried out
Published: Tuesday, Nov 26th 2024, 12:30
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Swiss courts can order foreign nationals with criminal convictions to leave the country. In 2023, an enforceable expulsion order was issued for 2,250 people. By mid-2024, around 73% of these had left Switzerland under control or accompanied by the police.
Around a third of the controlled departures were voluntary, in two thirds of all cases they were carried out under duress, as the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) reported on Tuesday. A good third of the people who left the country came from EU/EFTA states.
The most common nationals were from Romania, France and Italy. The most common third-country nationals expelled from the country were from Albania, Algeria and Morocco. More than 90 percent of all deportees were men.
According to the SEM, the rate of enforced expulsions was 68% at the end of 2023. However, as some of the expulsions were only ordered towards the end of 2023, they could only be enforced in the course of 2024. According to an initial, provisional evaluation, around 140 additional people who had been expelled from Switzerland in 2023 left the country in a controlled manner in the first six months.
According to this evaluation, the enforcement rate for 2023 has therefore increased to around 73% by mid-2024 and will continue to rise as further enforcements are planned. The enforcement rate for expulsions ordered in the first three months of 2023 was already 87.1% at the end of 2023.
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