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Anyone know how easy it is to become a swiss citizen!?
Does having family out there help?
- dstlb0
Do you have the full Helvetica Neue family? That might help.
- Kuz0
It's really hard. They put you through this test and shit load of interrogation. And even then its DAMN tricky. Most closed society in Europe. I had a friend who had grown up there who eventually became swiss - but even then it was VERY difficult, and he needed a lot of references... being Iranian didn't help.
- save0
..so, already having family there wont give me any advantage?
- Kuz0
Yes, definitly would. But as i say, even then it's still gonna be hard.
- pascii0
theres different ways. marriage is one - the others you may find here http://www.admin.ch/ch/index.en.… or @ the swiss embassy.
having family can help
- pascii0
but i agree, it's hard. i hate it to say, but it's really fucked politics here these days. what will help is having a job here!
- save0
thanks for advice fellas......
- jox0
Just out of curiousity - where in Sw would you be moving to?
- jox0
Oh and btw - you could always wait and see if they join EU. That would make things helluva lot easier for you, but then again it could take a few years.
- pascii0
where u have family?
- pascii0
well, we won't be part of the eu for A LONG TIME...
- Kuz0
The Swiss joining the EU? Gonna be a long long looooong time before that's a possibility. They're not even in the UN are they? Or have i got that wrong?
- jox0
So technically, the rest of Europe won't protect you if Osama shows up at your door!
te-hee
- Kuz0
Yeah, wunderful isolation. Up there in the Alps - the untouchables. Still the swiss are blissfully happy, not even Al Qaeda is their enemy. Like my Iranian-Swiss friend said
"the rest of the world can go fuck themselves"
- pascii0
harsh words
it isn't like heidi here my friends... it's just we don't want the rest of the world fuck with us.
i don't understand where that comes from, but there's a big countryside here..
- Kuz0
sorry pascii, i was just exagerating. It's a beautiful place, with laid back people. If i cud, i'd move there.
- pascii0
no offense taken! i reckon some issues here, but we keep on with ringin' the laid back back : )
- 19780
I guess if you are white you will have less problems to get the swiss nationality than if you were black, arab... Just like in any fucking "civilized" country... White = acceptable, other = we'll have to think about it.
- pascii0
fact.
:(
- ribit0
why do you want to become a Swiss citizen?