Grüezi ,
Been married to a Swiss wife for 7.5 years now . applied 14 months ago for facilitated naturalization . By reading most of the replies here , I see the time frame is about 14-18 months .
Just wondering if someone has an update about process times ?
Does such a long wait means problems ?
Cannot wait to become a Swiss ...

Just about to apply. Thats a long time to wait!

Why exactly can't you wait to be Swiss? Do you think you can throw away the past so quickly?

Just be a bit more patient. Good luck Liseschlatt.

My friend has been waiting just under 12 months in canton LU. Not a word since they sent the letter acknowledging receipt of the application - no police visits, no letters requesting additional paperwork to be filled out, nada.

Police visits? Why should one expect police visits?

My understanding is that occasionally the police my stop by your house (unannounced) just to "check" that you really do live there, etc. I don't think it always happens but if you read through other facilitated naturalization threads you will see that some people have had such visits.

Hello again ,
some action ! , I got a letter from the BFM requesting us to sign that our marriage is real , we dont mean to divorce and another one , asking me to state I have no criminal proceedings against me .

I will dig in the forum , but can ANYONE that had been through this , or knows , roughly , how long is it before the final decision ?

As for one of the questions I was asked here , about my past : I embrace it , but the thought of life in Switzerland makes the past seem so pale in comparison . I am just so happy anytime I am there .

You're still at the beginning of the process. The next step in a few months is likely the visit from the police. But, as you're in the US, this probably won't happen.

We had the police visit some months back. Still waiting. This stuff moves at the speed of glaciers.

The process takes from 14-18 months if you are in Switzerland. From abroad the papers need to go back and forth from the Embassy to Switzerland. I would guess you are talking more like 2 years. Anyway, just be patient.... it'll be done before you notice.

8 months for OH- but we made sure to get all the documentation required together right from the start. After the interview it went very quickly - perhaps because we have been married almost 40 years, that OH speaks good French and has a good knowledge of the country + are clearly not likely to require help (as retired on decent pensions). They also interviewed me (not by arrangement, I just happened to pick him up and she asked to talk to me too). It should make no difference, but I think it did - that we have bought a house here, and have been living there for 2 years, and that we had a long list of referees. Good luck.

Confirmation came through at the end of Jan so surprisingly it was under 7 months start to finish for me.

In my case it took 16 months, but it might be different (I applied because of my Swiss ancestors, not for reasons of being married to a Swiss). You can read the whole story here: Facilitated naturalization interview.

Going on 17 months without any word since initial letter acknowledging my friends application in Canton Luzern. (He doesn't speak English and neither does his wife, hence me reading through the forums and reporting back to them.) They're starting to get very disappointed and are terrified to ask anyone for an update lest the application gets passed to the bottom of the pile.

Before you ask why they are so eager to get the magic red passport, the husband comes from a country that requires a visa to go basically anywhere so they want to travel around (outside of Europe) and can't very easily without going through cumbersome visa application processes that cost quite a bit and generally get denied.

Yes and the Glaciers are disappearing under the attacks from SVP

I just wanted to bump up this thread and add my 5 rappen

Yesterday my husband called the Direktion des Innern in Zug and this morning I had my application for "Gesuch um erleichtere Einbürgerung" in my mailbox. Had it all filled out only needed to stop by the Gemeinde for the letter stating that I lived where I am for the last 5 years (cost 15fr) and photocopied my C permit (20 rp). Now it's off in the post on it's way to Bern.

I'll keep this thread updated with my progress.

That reminds me, tomorrow is 14 years of Swissness!

Tom

I applied last September after being married to my Swiss husband for 5 years. After signing many different papers we waited until the police showed up at our flat on my birthday in December. Of course my husband wasn't home but they just looked around and the noticeably large Whiskey bottle on the side table proved a man lived there!
After the police visit I didn't hear anything for a while besides another paper to sign and another 40.- bill came. We thought it would take forever for this process until the postman came this May with a letter worth 750.-!!!!! My husband paid it and another month later I received another letter saying Rechtskraftmitteilung Erleichterte Einbürgerung. It was nice except I had no clue what this paper meant. I went to my local Gemeinde in ZH and they said I had to wait for the Heimatkanton (BaselLand) to register me then I would hear from them. Well I got a letter today from my Heimatkanton with my Familenauweiss!!!! I am now officially Swiss. I am still not sure what to do and what I need to apply for the passport so I guess another trip to the Gemeinde office
In total the process was not even one year.

congrats, canadian girl!

Congratulations and welcome to the club! Your process was actually quite agile, from what I have seen.