Return
In 2023, 4,316 asylum seekers left Switzerland supervised by the authorities.
This includes people who are known to have left Switzerland. It does not include people who have returned to Ukraine (see above).
2,044 of them returned to their country of origin.
More than half of them returned to Algeria, Turkey or Georgia.
80% of those returning home did so independently.
The others were escorted by the police.
In addition, 2,021 asylum seekers departed for a Dublin state. 251 returned to a third country.