Around 3500 undocumented migrants living in Geneva are expected to be regularised under the ‘Papyrus’ scheme launched in 2015,officials said on Monday. The deadline for filing applications under the two-year project ended last December. The Papyrus scheme to regularise the situation of long-term undocumented migrants in Geneva officially began on February 20, 2017, and preceded by a test phase that began in 2015. Since then,1846 illegal immigrants in Geneva have received a B residence permit: 365 families, comprising 566 parents and 610 children, or 14 couples without children and 642 single people. Another 1757 individual dossiers filed before the December 31,2018 deadline are under examination, officials told reporters on Monday. Around 76000 illegal immigrants are believed to be living in Switzerland (see infobox below). Of these, and canton Geneva is domestic to 13000. Of those regularised in Geneva,a large proportion are women, many of whom are from Latin America and execute paid ...
Source: swissinfo.ch