Article: A couple's Swiss-ness hangs in the balance Citizenship denied in a secret process

Uta Harnischfeger The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
06-02-2008
A couple's Swiss-ness hangs in the balance Citizenship denied in a secret process
Byline: Uta Harnischfeger The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 4
Section: NEWS

ADLISWIL, Switzerland --

Milikije Arifi has lived in Switzerland for more than 30 years, since she was 18, and raised a family here.

She is fluent in German - the principal language in the north of the country - and speaks it with the same Swiss accent as her neighbors. She passed an examination devised to test her knowledge of Swiss and local history and government.
Still, in April, for the third time, the town council in this Zurich suburb ...