Switzerland's State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) has announced it will restart processing Syrian asylum cases from 1 May, after determining that widespread general violence no longer applies across all regions of Syria. The decision, based on a fact-finding mission conducted in Syria and Lebanon last November, means deportation orders can once again be issued — though officials stress that individual circumstances, including economic and humanitarian conditions, will still determine whether removal is feasible in each case. Around 28,000 Syrians currently live in Switzerland, roughly half of them within the asylum system, but the SEM acknowledges that conditions for return remain unmet for many of them, pointing to the example of Afghanistan where a similar policy shift a year ago has yet to result in a single supervised deportation.