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Not if you are qualified and capable of contributing to society.

• panchoop 5y ago
  It strongly depends in nationality, and in this last year they have made rules more strict. If you are European and have good skill-sets, you are welcome. But if you are not European, you have to be special enough such for the company hiring you to be able to justify that there is no-one else in the EU that can do the job you are applying to. This is not "just in paper". Some weeks ago I got a job offer widrawn from a company in Zürich because of this reason; me being a PhD in Applied Mathematics (granted by the ETH Zürich) but with a non-EU nationality.
  • 908B64B197 5y ago
    They need better lawyers. Alternatively, have you considered just getting an O-1?
    • long_time_gone 5y ago
      Either way, we can agree it isn't just based on qualifications and contribution to society as initially claimed.
    • panchoop 5y ago
      They told me that they consulted with two "inmigration agencies" (I did not even knew that there existed such a thing), I would guess that they are experts in these issues. My main weak point of entry is that I was applying to a consulting job in Data Science, and as such, it is not really possible to argue that there is no-one else left in the EU to take the job. Having a degree from the ETH indeed helps, but it wasn't enough. They have enforced quotas per canton, which means that once filled, no-one else is getting in. Furthermore, Swiss bureacracy is the most strict one I have seen in my life, so there is no much wiggle room to bend the rules.