Hey, so we've moved to another canton and the new canton hasn't yet issued our new permits (we are here on B for 7 years) since they require:

- debt registry extract
- if we took social assistance or not in our previous one

or for the french speakers here:

- attestation de l’office des poursuites de votre ancienne commune

- attestation de l’aide sociale de votre ancienne commune, confirmant que vous n’avez jamais bénéficiez d’aide sociale

Is this the usual process?

It is now ...

We had to submit the same in the final stages of Swiss Naturalisation.

You can get both documents online.

You should already have a recent debt registry extract since you rented a new property. If I understand well, the problem is not on getting those documents but if the new canton has the right to ask for those documents, right?

The letter they sent you normally quotes the law requiring the documents. Is this the case?

No, they didn't quote any laws.... They just asked for what I pasted above..

So, up to you.

I'd just submit the documents since the goal is getting the permit approved.

I was asked the same thing today, so we just have to deliver.

this is what was sent to me to deliver:

We both had to submit the debt registry thing when we were accepted for the lease on the apartment we moved to in July 2018. The online function didn't work, so we had to go to an office in Basel for it, cost us 19 francs each, but they gave us an envelope as well