* EU-B permit holder- permit about to expire in 2 years from now..
* Arrived in Switzerland 3 years ago. Have changed 3 cantons (in total 4 times).
Last week I received a letter from Service de la Population office, which read -
“You arrived in Switzerland on mmddyy and were issued the permit based on your job contract. However we got an information that you have been out of Job since mmddyy. So as per the rule If you want to dispute this, we will give you time till mmddyy to write us justifying why your permit should not be revoked. In order for us to understand your financial situation send us the following documents - Letter of unemployment benefits entitlement - all the previous job contracts - De-registration from the ORP office (in case if you were previously registered with ORP office) - Your last payslips “ ... I arrived in Switzerland 3 years ago. I had an unlimited contract and was issued a 5 yr B permit in Bern Canton. I worked in that job for 8 months and resigned as things were not going good. Was with RAV (in the German speaking part)- I was entitled for 260 days. In total I was with RAV for 5 months and changed Canton twice (Bern and Zurich)- of course with my RAV advisers`approval. Back then I did not receive any such letter. However within 5 months I received a 14 months job contract and moved to Canton Vaud. At the end of 14 months, I received an extension of another 6 months. However because of some internal restructuring, my client did not extend my job contract any further. So I became unemployed again and have been with ORP ever since . Because I completed the 2 years period since my first RAV/ORP registration And because I was continuously employed for 20 months, this time the ORP has approved fresh 400 days of entitlement (with 20 days waiting period). My new ORP entitlement ends 23 months from now (if I don't find a job by then). So I just replied to their letter stating that I have Unemployment benefit entitlements till mmddyy and I attached a copy of that letter. Do you think this would suffice? Considering t+6 months, it will still be 2 years 3 months from now. I am sure I will find a job soon. But this particular letter made me worry a bit because in the past I did not receive any such letters while I was unemployed (in Canton Bern and Zurich). Has anyone received such letters before? Is this specific to Canton Vaud? Regards, Gem