I got my C permit before getting married since I was here for 5 years.
3 years married to a Swiss + 5 years here is required for the Swiss passport.

Hi,

What is in the case of the Non EU student who is here with B permit and get married to a Swiss citizen after 3 years.

When he/she can is eligible for C permit, 5 year after the marriage or the years before the marriage also count?

Depends on which non- EU country you are from. From the USA should be no problem. 5 continous years with B permit will get you to C married or not.

Had a B then had a C
left for 2 years came back got a B (am EU - actually no am British).
but what is the point? what is the difference now in entitlement? in 2009?
when I came here in 1997 I could not buy a house on a B , but now?
What is the big deal on B's versus C's especially for EU folks??

B-Permits, C-Permits, Naturalisation: yes, it can seem confusing but instead of relying on others, go to the source: http://www.bfm.admin.ch/bfm/en/home/...ufenthalt.html

This is the official Swiss government site and it has all the information on the latest regulations in English.

B- and C-Permits have to do with residency, not with naturalisation. So, for example, I came here already married to a Swiss and had a B permit. I was naturalised before I was eligible for a C-Permit, as the rules are more relaxed for a facilitated naturalisation than for a C-Permit.

As for the facilitated naturalisation process, the required 5 year residency requirement begins AFTER marriage and does not have to be consecutive but you must have been living in Switzerland the past year. (There is an exception to this if you are the spouse of a Swiss expat.)

The laws relating to all permits and all forms of naturalisation are federal, as opposed to cantonal, but the process (forms, checking about requirements etc) all happens at the cantonal level. The relevant law is: Bundesgesetz vom 16. Dezember 2005 über die Ausländerinnen und Ausländer (AuG).

hope this clarifies things some.

No big deal really. Taxation mostly.

What about in case of INDIA Or CHINA?

See this is where I have to disagree with you. When my husband and I applied for our marriage certificate at the Town Hall in May 2008, my husband asked when I could apply for the pass. She stated that since I have C permit that we have to be married for 3 years before I can apply for facilitated naturalisation since my 5 consecutive years has been fufilled.

Indeed since others provide inaccurate information...like below.

This is wrong. If the residency counter were to begin after the marriage, there'd be no sense to the requirement of having to be married for at least three years before applying...