{"id":4871,"date":"2024-09-23T13:22:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T13:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.internationalhrs.com\/?p=4871"},"modified":"2026-08-11T14:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T12:47:15","slug":"stay-of-ukrainians-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalhrs.com\/en\/stay-of-ukrainians-in-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay of Ukrainians in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Swiss government has decided not to withdraw the S protection status for Ukrainian refugees before 4 March 2026 and to extend the support measures for this group of people (S programme) until then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This means that Ukrainian refugees can continue to work under the S status, if a working permit was granted. The risk remains, that when the war in Ukraine ends, their S Status will be ceased, and they will have to return home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because of this situation, many companies are trying to obtain a B permit for their concerned Ukrainian employees, if they are employed and doing a good job, in order to secure their stay in Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An application for a B permit is possible under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sem.admin.ch\/sem\/en\/home\/themen\/arbeit\/nicht-eu_efta-angehoerige\/grundlagen_zur_arbeitsmarktzulassung.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">restrictive conditions:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Proof of a search in the EU \/ EFTA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lack of local specialists for the position<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Overall economic interest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The above points are unfortunately subjective and are applied differently by each canton. We recommend that you only do this if the salary you are offering is high enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Companies that want to obtain for their Ukrainian employees a B permit, but don\u2019t want to pay them as specialists above market, will unfortunately fail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"mailto:info@internationalhrs.com\">IHRS<\/a> advises you on all aspects of international employment. We are happy to provide you with further information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swiss government has decided not to withdraw the S protection status for Ukrainian refugees before 4 March 2026 and to extend the support measures for this group of people (S programme) until then. This means that Ukrainian refugees can continue to work under the S status, if a working permit was granted. The risk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-information"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalhrs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalhrs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalhrs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalhrs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalhrs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/internationalhrs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7570,"href":"https:\/\/internationalhrs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions\/7570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalhrs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalhrs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalhrs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalhrs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}