Under the so-called UNHCR Resettlement-Programm, refugees in particular need of protection are accepted for permanent residence in Switzerland. However, the country's Minister of Justice and Police, Karin Keller-Sutter, suspended the program at the end of November..

The State Secretariat for Migration confirmed to the Keystone-SDA news agency the relevant reports published in Sunday newspapers on December 18, 2022.

At present, Switzerland already has an exceptionally large number of people seeking protection, so that the country has already exhausted all its possibilities in the field of accepting refugees through the UNHCR Resettlement Program. According to SEM, this decision affects about 800 refugees, who therefore will not be able to enter the country for the time being.. By UN standards, refugees in a particularly difficult situation are women, children or people with poor health.. Most of these asylum seekers come to the Confederation from Afghanistan, Syria and Sudan.

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Switzerland has pledged to host some 1,820 particularly vulnerable refugees through UNHCR by the end of 2023. At the moment, 640 people have already arrived in the country, and up to 400 people have applied for refugee status.

Earlier it was reported that Switzerland closed the emergency cash exchange system for refugees from Ukraine..