Swiss authorities require these documents for a VAD

Documents required for a VAD

First step to apply for VAD:  please fill in the boxes where we ask for your information that we need to generate your biography and your data sheet. Please upload for now only:  your newest medical records and a scan or good photograph of your passport. For all further steps (see below) you will soon be helped by your Dossier Supervisor.

Documents required for anyone, regardless of marital status:

  • Passport (or ID used to cross the border into Switzerland). Please make sure you uploaded or e-mailed a scan or good photo thereof and bring the original to the VAD.

  • Proof of residence (Copy the first sheet of your tax return with your current full address on it.)

  • Your long-form birth certificate (with parents’ full names, usually obtained from a government Registry Office)

    • Must be re-issued in the last 6 months prior to your VAD date

ADDITIONAL MUST-HAVE documents, based on marital status below:

  • If married:

    Documents below must be  re-issued in the last 6 months prior to your VAD date

    • Marriage certificate (usually obtained from a government Registry Office)
    • Yours, and your Spouse’s birth certificate (both as long form, with parent’s names on it)

    Scan of spouse’s passport (or ID card) is also required

  • If widowed:

    • Death certificate of your spouse (Original !)

  • If divorced:

    • Divorce certificate (Original !)

  • If single:

    • Statutory Declaration (Signed and dated) your signature must be certified and stamped by a notary.

      The declaration must have the exact wording: “I solemnly declare that I am single and have never been married.”

      This declaration must contain your full name, together with the full names of your parents, your date of birth and current residential address.