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Switzerland is an immigrant friendly country and a great destination in terms of high living standard, world class infrastructure, political neutrality and freedom and an attractive destination for retirement, business investors and wealthy individuals. Switzerland has always been an “expensive” country to live.

Swiss benefits:

  • Ideal for retirees and wealthy families
  • Investment or purchase of real estate property
  • Choice of Swiss canton, location
  • Privacy and freedom
  • Travel visa free in Europe

A foreigner from a Non-EU country, can get Swiss residence permit in 2 ways:

  1. Swiss Company Formation (for corporates)
  2. Swiss Lump Sum Taxation (for retirees)

The Swiss Lump Sum Taxation is best suited for wealthy individuals or retirees, while the Swiss company formation is ideal for investors and corporates.

Any foreign national, can form a company in Switzerland (in a Swiss canton), with the scope of creating jobs for local Swiss citizens, thus contributing to the economic development of the country. The owner of the company and his family are eligible for residence permits in Switzerland. The most popular forms of company are GmbH/SARL (like LLC) and AG (for corporations).

The Swiss residence permit is offered to persons of various categories under retirement, wealthy individuals, or as a business employee where it normally involves in setting up a Swiss company.

By paying this fee, there is no need to declare worldwide income and assets.

It usually takes about 3-4 months to get a residence permit in Switzerland.

 

The main eligibility criteria for getting residence permit are:

  1. No employment or occupation in Switzerland.
  2. First time residence in Switzerland and foreigner shouldn't have resided in Switzerland for the last 10 years.
  3. No Swiss Citizenship.
  4. No age limit for EU nationals.
  5. Requirement of Rented or Purchased residence in Switzerland.
  6. Persons who apply for this program should be above 18yrs of age and those who seek residence permit under retirement must be above 55yrs of age and prove adequate financial means.
  7. Persons applying for this program need to produce a long list of identification documents,besides having a clean criminal record and good a moral character.