Hi folks,

I've got a quick update and follow-up question.

Brief recap: My wife is a non-EU citizen and has accepted a job offer to work for 4 years as a postdoc in Zürich. Our two children and I are all EU citizens and will be coming with her.

Back in June, Medea Fleecestealer wrote:
And a few days after that, I wrote:
Today, the HR person at the Institut informed us that they have not in fact done what they said they would do and what we explicitly asked them to do. They submitted just my wife's permit application without including the permit applications for our kids or for me. Their reasoning was that including our family reunification permit applications would make my wife's application take too long and that applying for the family reunification permits is unnecessary because the three of us (all but my wife) have EU citizenships anyway. The HR person didn't ask us if this would be all right, and she didn't ask us what our thoughts were; she just went ahead and did the opposite of what she had said she would do.

So, my question is this: What are the consequences of the fact that my wife's employer has not submitted our family reunification permit applications along with the application for my wife's work permit?

Thank you again for your collective knowledge and your helpfulness!!!

Sincerely,
Nederlandse Amerikaan

Shouldn't be much so long as she can show she earns enough to support you all and has accommodation big enough for all of you. If you were all non-EU it would be a different matter since you wouldn't get the Type D visas needed to enter Switzerland long term, but as EU nationals you don't need those. You can apply for the family reunification permits once you're here.

Thank you, Medea Fleecestealer. That's very reassuring!
Nederlandse Amerikaan