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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.

Here is the short version of what you should:

• 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.