Similar issue for my neighbour. If you've been married for six years, but not spent all or any of that time in Switzerand then it's six years for the passport, rather tha five. So basically it ads another year.

Music Mole, since you are eligible I would have just dispensed with the whole permit lark entirey and simply applied for the passport when I arrived. Remember you don't have a permit unless you are here longer than three months, despite what the embassy might tell you. That should hopefully be enough time to get your Swiss passport. But anyway, since you've already started the process there's no point in having a(nother) big discussion about it - but this thread may serve to help someone else avoid any unnecessary run-around from an embassy.

I am a US citizen and was living in this country for 2 years with the 3 months, one time I overpassed the 3 months and we went to imigration; they told us don't worry if you have US pass is not problem.

Then we decided to married in our Caribean holidays, we come back here with a Dominican married certificate and he applied for my permanent health insurance, put me in the contract from the aparment and in the commune we apply for the permit; here start the probleme. They sent the application to imigration in Zurich and they were asking for translation, birth certificate and...So we make it simple, I went back to Dominican and deposit de documents there paid 3,000.00 Dominican pesos and wait 8 months for my permit. Took for ever but they told me that if the police control me just show a letter that they sent to me with the case # and that my permit was in process.

In the Dominican Embassy they were asking for a letter that we supposed to have before we married stying that we were single and we never did since we went to a lawyer in there, then at the end the consul said you are not a Dominican so we can avoid a few protocol.

So, you can come here and then apply for the Swiss passport is you time after 6 year of married with a Swiss even if you live out of the country.

Here is the link
http://www.bfm.admin.ch/index.php?id...=1%2Findex.pjb

Janet

Current processing times for naturalisation of spouses married to a Swiss national living abroad is 2 years - so I would not be able to naturalise and get a passport in 3 months time (would be nice if I could, but there you have it). I know this as my father-in-law just had his interview in Texas this summer and that is the timeframe the Consul General gave him (and he is still waiting for his approval).

I had planned to apply for naturalisation this fall (as a spouse of a Swiss National residing abroad) but since my Swiss national husband will be residing in Switzerland again as of next Saturday, that's probably not an option for me. I'll just get the residence permit and do the regular naturalisation application from within the country.

Out of curiosity, what language was his interview in, since it wasn't held in Switzerland with a Swiss resident?

He lived in Switzerland for 20 years (with his Swiss wife, he's British). They now live in the US. The interview was done by the (now closed) Consul General's office in Houston. As the interview is conducted by staff of the Consulate or Embassy, there are speakers of all the Swiss languages available to conduct the interviews.

When interviewing, you have your choice of which of the three Swiss languages you would like your interview conducted in. His was Swiss German, as they lived in the German speaking part of Switzerland (and that is what they speak as a family). Hope that answers your question.