Expat Guide

Living and working
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Everything becomes easier when you know more about your life in Switzerland. We have compiled some important topics for you here. This will provide you with important information as well as further links to specific details.

Working in Switzerland

In Switzerland, persons from abroad are divided into two groups of origin: EU/EFTA and third countries.

Nationals from a country of the EU or EFTA

Additional regulations apply to persons from Croatia. Among other things, they need a work permit even for short-term work. In general, Switzerland distinguishes between short-term and long-term work.

Short-term: max. 90 days/calendar year

Longer term: more than 90 days/calendar year

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Nationals from a third country

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Leisure and sports

The Swiss love sports and accordingly you will find many options to choose from.

In Switzerland, club life is an important social factor. Of course, it's more fun when people understand each other. That's why many newcomers meet in clubs from your country. But of course you can also join any "Swiss" club.

Foreign associations
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Geography

Switzerland is divided into four geographical areas: Jura, Central Plateau, Pre-Alps and Alps, and the southern side of the Alps.

Switzerland is characterized by mountain ranges and hills, rivers and lakes. The country thus offers an extremely large geographical and also climatic diversity, and that in a small area.

Facts & Figures about Switzerland

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Health insurance
in Switzerland

Swiss health insurance is divided into mandatory basic insurance and voluntary supplementary insurance. This division is the same for all health insurance companies.

The basic insurance offer is the same for all health insurance companies. Only the premiums differ depending on where you live. The range of supplementary insurances offered by the various health insurance companies also differs.

3 departments for Hospitalization

Compulsory insurance for all

3 months time for insurance

Exceptions

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Public transport
in Switzerland

In hardly any other country is public transport as dense and as well developed as in Switzerland.

Anyone working in Switzerland's hotspots such as Zurich, Geneva or Basel quickly realizes that public transport is a good alternative to individual transport. The dense network ensures that you get from A to B in the shortest possible time.

Train, Postbus, Tram, Bus, Cableway and Ship

Go anywhere with just one ticket

3+10 airports for civil aviation.

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