Source document
Verordnung über die Begrenzung der Zahl der Ausländer (BVO) vom 6. Oktober 1986, SR 823.21, version of 12 December 2006 (applicable 1 January 2007)
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CompleteReviewed 11 Oct 2026
Reviewed. Everything in it that belongs in the tables has been taken.
What the document holds
Swiss Ordinance limiting the number of foreigners (BVO, 1986), version of 12 December 2006: quotas for workers, students, retirees, non-working foreigners, family reunification. In scope only art. 36 (residence for other non-working foreigners when important reasons require; recorded earlier as a context event); it states no amount, duration or fee. Full read in this pass: nothing added. Not in scope: retirees over 55 with close ties and means (art. 34: an income/means route, decision 15), work quotas, students, family reunification.
What it supports
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About the document
What it covers Last consolidated text of the predecessor ordinance (repealed by VZAE from 1 Jan 2008): chapter 3 on non-working foreigners (arts. 31-37); no explicit fiscal-interest ground
Notes Used to check whether a fiscal-interest residence ground existed before the VZAE: it did not in explicit form; only art. 36 'wichtige Gründe' for other non-working foreigners.
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