Hello All

Question that pertain us, a young, married couple (married in Switzerland) who had their B permits (both "frozen" in January 2013 and with an "expiration date" of 2017. Such permits were frozen in Basel Stadt.

After a couple of great years out of Switzerland, we want now to come back to Switzerland. We are coming upfront without a job but plan and hope to get jobs very shortly after arriving (in fact we are already interviewing)

Question is, what is the process to "reactivate" the B permits? Just go to a Work/Gemeinde office in Zurich/Basel and reactivate them?

Basically yes. Ideally you should move back to the gemeinde you were living in before and get them back there, but being EU nationals it really shouldn't matter where you get them done. It just might hold things up a bit in getting them reissued as paperwork will need to be moved from one gemeinde/canton to another.