The State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) cut 83 asylum‑processing jobs at the start of the year due to a decline in new arrivals to Switzerland. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox SEM cut 60 jobs involved in processing asylum applications and 23 dealing with the processing of protection status S cases, it confirmed to the Keystone-SDA news agency on Saturday, following an earlier report by Blick. The posts had been created temporarily to process the higher number of asylum applications and to reduce the number of open asylum applications, the SEM said. "The personnel resources in the asylum sector were generally based on the number of asylum applications received, which were down last year. Last year and this year will probably be lower than 2022 to 2024," SEM said. Last year, SEM recorded 25,781 asylum applications, a decrease of 7% compared to 2024. At that time, 27,740 asylum applications were received in Switzerland and 30,223 in 2023. The federal ...
