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Red Tape and Visas
The federated republic of Switzerland is composed of 23 cantons, or 20 cantons and six half-cantons. The last canton to be established was Jura in 1979. The Swiss government is divided into three branches: the Federal Council (executive); the Federal Assembly, or Parliament (legislative); and the Federal Tribunal (judicial), which sits in Lausanne. The Federal Council consists of seven members, who are each elected for four-years terms. They preside over seven government departments; it includes an annually elected president, who serves both as head of government and as Switzerland's chief of state. The Parliament is composed of two chambers. The two chambers are the Council of States and the National Council. The Council of States has 44 member who serve for three to four years, and the National Council has 200 members who are elected every four years. Visas may be individual - issued to an individual applicant and apposed to an individual passport - or group visas - issued to a group of aliens, all having the same nationality of the passport-issuing country, and provided that the document is expressly and formally recognised by Italy. Group visas cannot exceed 30 days.
Visas are divided into three main categories:
1. Uniform Schengen Visas (USV): valid for all the Contracting Parties' territories
2. 2. Limited Territorial Validity visas (LTV): these are only valid for the Schengen State whose representative issued the visa (or in particular cases for other Schengen states where specifically named) without any possibility of access to or transit through the territory of any other Schengen States. They are issued solely for humanitarian reasons, or in the national interest.
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