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Summary information to obtain Swiss visa / work permit

In general, you will need to apply for a visa (or work permission) in case that your stay exceeds 8 days. The required documents have not changed. Details for what you have to do are now given on a PSI webpage which you'll find here (it's even in english!):

PSI visa information page

• Non-EU/EFTA citizens should start latest 8 weeks ahead of their arrival at PSI.
• EU/EFTA citizens should initiate the procedure at least 10 days in advance. If your stay is longer than 90 days, also EU/EFTA citizens have to apply for a visa and have to send in all the full paper work listed below. For a stay <= 90 days, you only need to send a copy of your passport and the exact dates of arrival and departure.

• Send an email to Anita_van_Loon with the following information (scanned copies should be ideally send as a PDF document):
  • A letter of your home institute confirming that (here is a template of such a letter):
    • you are employed at your home institute
    • your monthly (yearly) salary is ....
    • they send you to PSI from ... to ... for participating in the experiment ....
    • and you'll return to the home institute after the period.
  • A copy of your passport
  • A certificate of health insurance
  • The completed questionaire for guest scientists (Word document)
  • A statement about the location of the consulate/embassy where you want to pick up your visa.
  • You can list me (Peter Winter) as the contact person at PSI.
• Ideally you send these information at least 7 weeks in advance to Anita.
• If you have any questions concerning the procedure or during your application process, feel free to contact me ( Peter_Winter) and I will try to help.
• Once you have the necessary paper work you need to apply at your chosen embassy for the visa. Please check with the swiss embassy webpage for the details of this process.