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NGO finds huge disparity in asylum policy

This content was published on Mar 24, 2009 Under a law in force since 2007 the country’s 26 cantons have wide-ranging autonomy to grant people with no legal status, among them rejected asylum seekers, temporary residency instead of forcing them to leave the country. An asylum seeker who has lived in Switzerland for at least five years and who can prove that he…