A concept of asymptotic symmetry is introduced which is based on a definition
of symmetry as a reducibility property relative to a corresponding invariant
ansatz. It is shown that the nonlocal Lorentz invariance of the free-particle
Schr\"odinger equation, discovered by Fushchych and Segeda in 1977, can be
extended to Galilei-invariant equations for free particles with arbitrary spin
and, with our definition of asymptotic symmetry, to many nonlinear
Schr\"odinger equations. An important class of solutions of the free
Schr\"odinger equation with improved smoothing properties is obtained.