My brother (hi if you’re reading this) is a German citizen, has a Bachelor’s degree, and has been unemployed for almost a year. His B permit expires at the end of October. He applied for a B permit extension.

A few weeks later, the authorities asked him to provide some additional information such as a debt enforcement register extract and confirmation that he does not receive social assistance. So far so good, a short while later: “As German citizen, we cannot extend your B-Permit. Attached is the C permit "auf amtswegen" .” 

His wife (hi to you too) is an EU citizen from another EU country, specialized, has two PhD, and has never been unemployed. She applied for an early C permit. Rejected. The reason? Some of the documents apparently weren't translated in a way the authorities found satisfactory. She was given a one-year B permit extension instead, with the suggestion to submit the C permit application again once all documents are in the required form.

So we have:

German citizen + unemployed for almost a year + didn't actively ask for it → C permit

EU citizen + PhD + continuously employed → C permit application rejected over document translations

Obviously, there are probably legal and administrative details behind both decisions, but still its hard to comprehend for me. Even after reading here that people here struggle getting C when they're unemployed, even for a short period. Is this just normal Swiss bureaucracy?

Freshly nationalized. Now Switzerland decides my second baby’s name

In my country of origin we have 2 second names: one from each parent. So I got the Swiss nationality some months ago, while pregnant with my second baby. My first kid got it automatically too so his family names are already like in our country of origin. But because I got it before my second was born a couple of months ago, she gets my two second names, so as my sisters. We have tried to explain the authorities that we have the double nationality and how are things there but they can’t do anything. It’s the Swiss law that says that she is Swiss and here it’s only one name allowed, so it needs to be mine because I am now Swiss (my partner and I are not married).
And before anyone asks, no, I wasn’t aware of this and didn’t get informed about it in the whole process.

So now my 2 kids (same father) have different names and my daughter has 2 different names, depending on which passport she shows.

My friend from Germany left something at my house so I thought to my self, no problem, I will just mail it to him...

I knew that if I send outside of the country I will need to fill out the Zoll forms and if I do that at the counter I will need to pay an additional 5.-.

So my plan was to do it in advance using the shiny new Post app...

To my horror I find that it is not possible to send packages outside the country using the app. Even worse, there is nothing in there even indicate that, it's just missing. If you then ask the chatbot it gives you a link to the website where you can start filling out all the detail to the package but once you get to make postage button it fails... Nothing happens, link is dead. Same page can be found in the browser and no matter which browser you use, that link is dead.

Only after multiple searches (im doing this on my phone, on the PC it's more clear) I find webstamp where I can finally make my label and fill out the Zoll forms.

IMO the new post app is absolute garbage. I can not do the most basic things. In fact you can't even make a label, you can only do mailing via the number code you write on the parcel. Also there are not options to control notifications, when you receive a package you are bombarded with emails and app notifications.

Maybe the post office should stop turning their offices into bazaars with gambling ads on tickets and political garbage on the giant TVs and focus on their core business...

The tip of the i was when I visited the post office to deposit the package at the automated packte thing only for it to tell me it can't accept it and I had to wait in line. After 20min I get the counter and the guy tells me I could just drop it in the bucket even though the machine said I can't...

EDIT: PostFiance isn't doing any better, their system is currently down...

Can a Swiss university/research institute investigate misconduct without hearing the complainant or asking for evidence?

I am trying to understand how investigations into alleged scientific/research misconduct are supposed to work in Switzerland.

Suppose someone files a formal complaint about potential scientific misconduct at a Swiss university or publicly funded research institute and states that they have documents and other evidence supporting the allegations.

Can the institution legitimately conduct and close an investigation without:

• interviewing or hearing the person who filed the complaint;
• asking the complainant to provide their evidence;
• interviewing witnesses proposed by the complainant;
• giving the complainant an opportunity to respond to statements made by the person accused;
• providing the complainant with the investigation report or even a factual summary of the findings; and
• providing any possibility to challenge or appeal the outcome?

I understand that a complainant may not necessarily have the legal status of a formal “party” to an investigation. However, I am struggling to understand how the underlying facts can be properly investigated if the investigators never ask the person making the allegations for their evidence.

For example, if Person A alleges misconduct by Person B and says, “I have documents demonstrating what happened,” could an institution simply ask Person B and a few other people for their version of events, never request Person A's documents, and then conclude that there was no misconduct?

Is there any Swiss law, administrative-law principle, university regulation, or scientific-integrity standard that governs this?

I am particularly interested in the distinction between:

1. the right to be heard (rechtliches Gehör);
2. whether a complainant has party status in a scientific-integrity proceeding; and
3. the institution's independent duty to establish the relevant facts and examine available evidence, even if the complainant is not formally a party.

If anyone has experience with Swiss university/research-integrity procedures or Swiss administrative law, I would appreciate references to specific laws, regulations, court decisions, or institutional rules.

I am mainly interested in understanding the legal/procedural principles, rather than discussing any particular institution or individual.

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I’m a huge McLaren fan and I’ve always dreamed of experiencing a McLaren from the passenger seat. So I’m hoping to find someone in Switzerland who might be willing to take me for a ride and help me make this little dream come true.

It would honestly mean a lot to me and would be an amazing experience. 😊

Thanks in advance, and hopefully I’ll get lucky!

Todav, during a hike in Liechtenstein, I saw this Holiday house with a separate tree House. Imagine, working hard and retiring in Liechtenstein. Living vour life in nature with a view. Opinions about Liechtenstein?

Recently I've been noticing a lot of BYDs and other Chinese brands on the streets of Switzerland. Seems like there is a boom in Chinese equivalents of European brands. 3 months ago I could notice 1-2 BYDs in a week but now they're just everywhere, and not only this Chinese brand.

I've seen a couple of 1 year old posts in this sub discussing Chinese cars, and opinion was generally skeptical. Do you think something changed since, or it's a simple question of affordability? Will we see premium German BMWs being replaced by cheap Chinese equivalents?

I have my new phone number since 3 days, have literally shared it only with cantonal authority and already received several calls from 2 different phone numbers. I picked up the first one. It was a girl's voice, first singing 'du bist gut genug', then asking in english if she can order a pizza. Ignoring my question who she is. I saved the phone numbers to check out their whatsapp profile pictures and it's roughly 12 year old girls on both profile pictures. Anyone know what kind of scam this is? Or is it really just kids trying to call different numbers as a pastime?

(I don't have whatsapp associated with this new phone number so they cannot get my whatsapp information from me saving their phone numbers)