Services

For the complete documentation see the pages in German, French or Italian.

General

• Subscribing to news

Federal Office of Justice (FOJ)

• ZEFIX: Central Business Names Index
• Criminal records
• elorge: Databank of Swiss Localities and Courts
• Acquisition of real estate by persons abroad
• Extradition

State Secretariat for Migration (SEM)

• Provisions
• Visa Application Form
• Informations for entry to Switzerland
• Free Movement of Persons Switzerland - EU/EFTA
• Labour / Work permits
• Naturalisation
• Emigration (Website FDFA)
• Statistics

Federal Office of Police (fedpol)

• Checklist Money Laundering

Federal Institute of Metrologie (METAS)

• Metrological Services
• Legal Metrology
• Certification Body METAS-Cert

Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IGE)

• Patents: Application in Switzerland
• Patents: International application
• Trade Marks: National applications
• Trade Marks: Protecting your trade mark abroad
• Design: Swiss applications
• Design: Applying for design protection through the EUIPO
• Design: Applying for international design protection through the WIPO
• Copyright
• Patent and trade mark searches, ip-search
• Databases and directories
• Documents and links

Last modification 07.09.2022