Born abroad? How to keep your Swiss citizenship

Every year, thousands of young Swiss Abroad turn 25. For some of them, this is an important deadline: anyone born abroad who fails to take action in time may lose their Swiss citizenship. Here’s what you need to know. Many Swiss citizens living abroad assume that Swiss citizenship is automatically passed down from one generation to the next. In principle, this is correct: Switzerland follows the principle of descent, known as ius sanguinis. Anyone with a Swiss parent can acquire Swiss…