Hi All

I have two options... one take up severance package and go on garden leave... the package covers me for next 12 months... so it is a good package..
The reason is restructuring and position made redundant.

(based in Zurich canton)
However... few questions
1. How do I know my B permit is not linked with the company and I can apply for other companies?
2. If I take unemployment benefits will that impact my future C permit application?
3.My B permit is valid till next year March... will this have any impact my B permit validity if I decide to take the package and leave?
4. I am looking for English speaking companies for positions of product marketing positions. please assist if you know any or share URL to search


Non EU B1 permit: Unemployment benefit impacts

And option 2..............

1) Look at your permit, ask HR, go to your commune and ask them
2) No
3) If you're on garden leave, you're still employed
4) Non EU.....may not be very easy

Thank you,...


Would it be better to take severance package and find another job or accept another job given within the company and then if that does not work out then find a job.
The only problem is if I accept the alternative position... I will not get severance package... a bit tricky situation...

Assuming you're still on a dependent's permit as mentioned in another of your threads then the answer is no, it won't affect anything if you take the severance package.

Dependents permits are not linked to the employer, but to the main permit holder. In other words your spouse. If they lose their job and the right to a permit so would you, even if you're employed at the time.

I am the main permit holder (B).. and spouse do not work..
I am at the threat of losing job or pick up other options within company..

Well, first you need to know if your permit is tied or not. I assume it is, in which case it doesn't matter how long it still has on it. Once you lose your job, you lose the permit as the job was the reason you got it in the first place. Any new employer will have to go through the non-EU hiring process to be able to hire you. You might be able to get unemployment for 6 months, but you'd need to check with RAV.

If it's an open B then there's no problem in applying for another job.

I wouldn't be so confident about #2. I know an EU person who was not granted a C permit because he had been on unemployment.

In any case, I think the OP has a bigger hurdle and that is will his permit still be valid? Unemployment used to take over as employer for nonEUs until they ran out there entitlement or found another job. Either it's a canton to canton thing or they seem to not be doing it anymore.

OP needs to talk to unemployment and the commune ASAP to figure out his options.

Thank you

I checked with immigration office.. They confirmed that the linkage to company is not there.. Again since I was in Canton Vaud.. it was taken out there and now since last 1.5 yrs I am in canton Zurich.. technically the person said he do not see (in his system) any blockage

May be need to call labor department to reconfirm

My permit is renewed as till March 2018.. so just recently. Even then it will be just 6 months I can stay here?

If it's not linked to an employer then it'll be valid until the renewal date and you shouldn't have any problems looking for a new job.

Not sure, as you're on an open B, whether you get the same 400 days over 2 years that EU nationals get or whether it would just be the 6 months. Check with RAV to make sure.

He has the same entitlement. The only issue is that if his permit is not renewed he can't really stay and collect the rest.

Unemployment is not supposed to be a reason not to have the permit renewed. If he does not get a C he will probably be given another B.

The OP is probably lucky he moved away from Vaud as this is where the case I mentioned happened.