Hi Reddit!

I would love to become Swiss and Vaudois, de dieu! 

One of the requirements is to provide residency certificates covering the past ten years.

So in my case, that would be:

  • One certificate from GE canton (for 25 francs)
  • One certificate from VD (for 10 francs)

What I find strange is to order the certificate from the very authority that requests it, that is Service de la population (SPOP), État de Vaud.

Am I missing something?

Thank you!

by Ill_Salad_5641

4 comments

  1. You could ask them if they still need it, if you lived in the same municipality. Some municipality state that you only need an attest if you lived in another municipality in the last x years.

  2. Déjà, bravo d’être arrivé jusqu’à là.

    Ensuite là pour la naturalisation ça dépend. si tu es à Lausanne ou c’est Lausanne qui doit traité la demande c’est très bureaucratique donc suit ce qui est demandé.

    Par contre si c’est une autre commune qui s’occupe de la naturalisation tu devrais en principe avoir besoin de fournir que les attestations de domicile des précédentes communes. Après c’est toujours mieux de demander directement, certain sont plus arrangeant que d’autre.

  3. Three different authorities will handle your application: the municipality, the canton and then the confederation. All of them need all of the info.

  4. The key thing to understand : Switzerland is a federal state 🙂
    I went through citizenship in Zurich (having lived in Vaud, and Zurich), and was also amazed at how much information is being asked of me that probably exists in a server the people who ask can access as well.
    But then again it’s a federal state : the cantons don’t seem to have good exchange of data, so the task is on you to connect the dots and ask all the administrations of all the cantons you have lived in for the documents.

    Good luck, it’s tedious but not infeasible. Also bear in mind that all documents should be “fresh”, so send all your requests in one salvo, so you don’t end up having docs older than 3 months.

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