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Return Migration: Policies and Practices
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1. In 2002, approximately 26,000 individuals sought asylum in Switzerland; in 2003 Switzerland handled
almost 22,000 asylum applications. There are approximately 7,200,000 inhabitants in Switzerland.
2. ICMPD, Study on Return: A Swiss Perspective, October 2002.
3. The financial assistance amounts to CHF 500 per adult, CHF 250 per minor and a maximum of CHF 2,500
per case as a business start-up grant.
4. These statistics refer to voluntary departures within the set deadline given in the official decision notifying
the rejection of an asylum claim.
* UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and its Smuggling and Trafficking Protocols:
Switzerland signed the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime on 12 December 2000, but
has not yet ratified it. It signed the Smuggling and the Trafficking Protocols on 2 April 2002, but has not
yet ratified them.
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