Report: Thousands of foreigners are living in Switzerland with fake passports

Report: Thousands of foreigners are living in Switzerland with fake passports

An increasing number of counterfeit passports are in circulation in Switzerland, which means holders could have obtained Swiss residency permits based on these forged documents.

The business with false passports flourishes. Experts speak of many encumbered residence permits.

A sample of the Swiss biometric passport. Picture: KEYSTONEThe business with fake passports is increasing in Switzerland. Experts assume that the fake passports lead to many wrongly issued residence permits. This is reported by the «SRF Rundschau».Alexander Ott of the Bernese Foreign Police says to the SRF that he also has many of these cases. To this conclusion they have come due to the number of cases taken up and the number of counterfeits se…