Georgia transit visa rules

The Law on the Legal Status of Aliens defines the T visa as the visa for crossing Georgia, for up to 10 days, to reach a third country; it concerns only visa-required nationals. Article 10 exempts passengers overflying Georgia without landing, crews of international transport and stopover passengers who can enter their destination and stay no more than 10 days without leaving the transit area of the airport, railway station or seaport.

Show that you are heading to a third country and can enter it. The usual refusal grounds apply: missing documents, false information, no insurance or funds, an entry ban or an unpaid fine for an earlier unlawful stay.

Missions want originals, submitted in person: passport, biometric photo (472 x 610 pixels), onward ticket and destination visa, insurance with at least GEL 30,000 cover, proof of funds, fee receipt and signed form.

Georgian missions publish a visa fee of USD 20, paid as each post specifies (the embassy in Jordan wants a bank deposit). If your nationality can use the e-Visa, it costs USD 20 plus a 2% service fee. Fees are not refunded after a refusal.

Register on geoconsul.gov.ge, choose the mission and the immigration, ordinary and transit visa service, book a visit and upload the documents. Missions in a third country accept only its residents or holders of its multiple-entry visa. The law sets 10 calendar days for short-stay decisions.

If you are held in Georgia for more than 10 days during transit against your will, for example by a natural event, repairs, an accident or delays in changing transport, the Public Service Development Agency can defer your obligation to leave once, for up to three months, for GEL 65 within 5 calendar days.

A refusal of a visa or of entry can be appealed to the higher administrative body within 10 calendar days of being served, and that decision can then go to court. Refusals based on an entry ban or unpaid fine, on state security or public order, or on foreign-policy grounds are not appealable.

Nationals on Georgia's visa-free list need no transit visa: their allowance of up to one year covers crossing the country by road, rail or air. Since 1 January 2026 they must still carry health and accident insurance with at least GEL 30,000 of cover for the days spent in Georgia.