Thanks for the confirmation. After being told to wait outside the consulate while my wife had her passport appointment, I wasn’t sure they’d talk to me. The plan is for any communication with them to be done in French.
Good to know. I was hoping to ask for them 2 to 4 weeks early to get a start on the document collection.
Thankfully, it’s just the birth certificate that’s problematic as I don’t live in the province where I was born. Everything else, I can get issued and apposilled in a timely manner easily enough.
Hi, I read that you got some additional papers to sign from SEM [Déclaration concernant la communauté conjugale and Déclaration concernant le respect de l’ordre juridique] and 1 months later you got the notification that your naturalization had been approved. Another person on here got her notification 2 month after signing those papers. I got those papers 2 months ago and still have no news… What do you think it means when you receive those additional papers? That the process is about done?
You are getting close to the finish line. The SEM will now make a final decision, send it to your spouse’s canton of origin and allow them 30 days to object to the decision, after which it will be entered into force and you will officially become a Swiss citizen (assuming all goes well of course…).
Typically one should be hearing back 3-6 months after the supplementary forms have been received by Bern… but it could be longer. Hang tight and good luck!
I am about to ask for the forms from the consulate in London fofacilitated nationality by being married to a Swiss and living abroad. I am currently working on improving German. Can anybody who has had their interview give me some idea of specific questions you were asked concerning Switzerland and its national life, history and geography etc.
Good luck to you on the process and definitely try to get to B1 German before you go in front of the consular officers (they say A2 is enough, but the higher the language abilities the better!).
For the specific questions, I would suggest you look at the links which are included in the above thread (several retired swissforumenglish threads where people shared the questions they were asked). I would also suggest you review the ‘naturalisation prep’ materials which are included on most/all cantonal government websites (so for you, look these up on 3-5 german-speaking canton websites).
I’ve not requested the forms yet as I’ve got roughly 2 years to go before I’m eligible. I saw this topic come up and figured I’d ask my keener questions.
I’ll be applying from Ontario which means the Montreal consulate.
Hi, I am super happy that I am officially Swiss and my first passport is arriving nex week. For informative purposes I wanted to tell you guys about my timeline.
21 March - Appointment at the Swiss Embassy in Mexico City
April 10 - 2 of my 5 listed Swiss contacts got letters asking about me
July 20 - I recieved 2 documents from the SEM to sign again and sent them back to Switzerland [Déclaration concernant la communauté conjugale and Déclaration concernant le respect de l’ordre juridique]
November 20 - Got email saying I am officially Swiss and also official letters by the post the next week
December 2025 - Appointment in the Swiss embassy for Biometrics
January 2026 - Recieving my first Swiss Documents
Hope this is helpful and good luck to everyone in the process. From March to November is 8 months for the whole process but I think I had a fairly easy dossier.
Thanks for sharing your timeline. 8 months sounds very speedy. Mine took 13 months, and I was living in Switzerland, with a C permit and married to a Swiss citizen!
Out of curiousity, how long did it take from when you submitted your application to when you were invited for an interview and then until the interview itself?
I don’t remember the exact date but I submitted my paper work at the beginning of March and super quickly they gave me the appointment and I went directly at the end of the same month, March. I forgot to write about the interview, in my case it was not an interview, they ask really really precise questions about Switzerland, about history, culture, dates, mountain peaks, I think I got like more than 50 questions!
yeah we all got the question barrage hah. It’s a standardized list from the SEM and the interviewers can pick whichever subset they wish.
There were some funny questions like ‘name X famous Swiss people’. I mentioned one of my favorite comediennes from Lausanne, and the interviewer from the suisse alemanique didn’t even know them, and had to google live.