Hi All, I need some help or advice how to proceed with the registration process for family members. We have immigrated to Switzerland as a family on 01.10.25, me as an EU citizen and my wife as non-EU. We have 2 children, both with EU passports. We did the registration in the local municipality in the regular period of 14 days, first for me, then for the family, following the family reunification path. We had sublease agreement for a 4.5 rooms apartment for 6 months. We even had to provide additional proff/document that the original renter is out of the country and we have the apartment just for us. 2 months later, I was invited in the main migration office of the Canton to get the picture for a resident permit. As we didn’t receive anything for the other family members I decided to ask about the status. The officer told me that there is no entry in the system or any documents have arrived for my family. It was a huge scock, but at least he was nice enough to issue a visa for my wife, so we can exit the country (and EU) for the Christmas vacation. I paid 90CHF. I imidiatly went to the local municipality, to the same officer that did the registration process and told her about the problem. She assured me that she will send the documents again. But in January, we received a letter from the main migration office in the Canton that they miss some documents, specifically rental agreement. They only had some documents that I provided to the officer that issued the visa. I have sent through their site all other documents and confirm by phone that they received everything this time. Now we received a letter from the Migration Office that they can’t register my family members, as we don’t have an apartment after 01.04.26. We need to provide new rental agreement for pur own apartment until 28.02.26. This is not possible, as we still look for an apartment and we were not chosen for dosen of them, eve though we applied. Now I don’t know what to do, if they reject the registration. We planned to take another temporary apartment or Airbnb until we find permanent apartment, but this changes everything. We will for sure not be able to have an apartment in a week. So because of a mistake by the system, I paid 90chf for visa and now I’m on a verge of rejection. We don’t even know what rejection means. My kids already go to school and we are trying really hard to adopt. Do we need to leave? Do I have any option? I was planning to write to the ombudsperson in the local municipality aboute issue created by the municipality and also maybe ask for extension by the migration officer. And the worse part, we realized that maybe we were rejected for an apartment, because my wife still does not have residence permit. And for that we need the apartment?!?! submitted by /u/AdhesivenessWild4859
Originally posted by u/AdhesivenessWild4859 on r/Switzerland