Some of the state referrals were not recorded until the end of 2024 and therefore had to be enforced in the course of the year. As a result, the enforcement rate for 2024 rose from 63% to 69% by mid-2025.

The State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) went on to say that this rate would continue to rise as further executions were planned. In comparison: in mid-2024, the rate of enforced expulsions for 2023 was 73%.

+ Adopted daughter of Swiss Abroad faces deportation from Switzerland

Some 80% of all people who were expelled from the country last year left Switzerland under duress; 20% left independently. Of these people 40% are nationals of EU/EFTA states, 60% come from a third country.

The vast majority are 25- to 34-year-old men. Albanian nationals were the most frequently expelled from the country, followed by Romanian and Algerian nationals in second and third place.

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