Facts
The Peruvian national [A.] (born 1975) married a Swiss citizen in 2001 and subsequently received a residence permit, which was later converted into a settlement permit. Since 2007, [A.] and her family have been receiving social assistance amounting to around CHF 400,000. In 2020, the Migration Office of the Canton of Zurich revoked her settlement permit and instead issued her a one-year residence permit, the extension of which was conditional on [A.] increasing her workload to at least 80%. [A.] appealed against this downgrading to the Federal Supreme Court.Considerations
The Federal Supreme Court held that a settlement permit can be revoked and replaced by a residence permit if the person concerned no longer meets the integration criteria under Art. 58a FNIA. This includes, in particular, participation in the labor market. Despite warnings and repeated admonitions, the appellant had only slowly increased her workload and remained significantly dependent on social assistance. The Federal Supreme Court considered this to be a predominantly self-inflicted integration deficit that justified the…