Two-thirds of Swiss deportations from 2024 completed

Swiss courts ordered the expulsion of 2,446 people last year. More than two-thirds of those affected have since left Switzerland, the State Secretariat for Migration announced on Monday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Some of the state referrals were not recorded until the end of 2024 and therefore had to be enforced in the course of the year. As a result, the enforcement rate for 2024 rose from 63% to 69% by mid-2025. The State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) went on to say that this rate would continue to rise as further executions were planned. In comparison: in mid-2024, the rate of enforced expulsions for 2023 was 73%. + Adopted daughter of Swiss Abroad faces deportation from Switzerland Some 80% of all people who were expelled from the country last year left Switzerland under duress; 20% left independently. Of these people 40% are nationals of EU/EFTA states, 60% come from a third country. The vast majority are 25- to 34-year-old men. Albanian ...