Visa requirements for Georgian citizens

Georgian citizens can enter all 29 Schengen states without a visa, for up to 90 days in any 180-day period across the whole area.

Of the 198 countries whose entry rules are known in both directions, Georgia and 83 of them let each other’s citizens in without a visa obtained in advance (visa-free, on arrival or with an ETA; an e-visa counts as a visa).

20 countries ask holders of the Georgian passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Georgia without one: Australia, Belize, Botswana, Brunei, Canada and 15 others.

The reverse holds for 36 countries: holders of the Georgian passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Georgia (Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Comoros and 31 others).

43 countries ask holders of the Georgian passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 5 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Georgia.

38 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Georgia, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Georgia, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Turkey (10), Iran (9) and Azerbaijan (3).

The United States refused 46% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Georgia in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 132 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 64 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Georgia refused 14% of short-stay visa applications in 2025 (all Schengen consulates worldwide: 15%). Among the 74 countries where they received at least 10,000 applications, that is the 47th highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the Georgian passport

By continent, the Georgian passport is visa-free in 43 countries in Europe, 17 countries in the Americas, 15 countries in Asia, 2 countries in Africa and 2 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Georgian citizens are allowed in Kyrgyzstan (360 days), Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Fiji (120 days), Andorra (90 days), the United Arab Emirates (90 days) and Albania (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Georgian citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bahrain, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti and 30 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Georgian citizens enter Australia, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and 29 others. Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Suriname ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Georgia’s neighbours

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Russia admit Georgian citizens without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Russian passport ranks 79th (115 destinations), the Turkish passport ranks 86th (112 destinations), the Azerbaijani passport ranks 118th (72 destinations) and the Armenian passport ranks 127th (67 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 103 can enter visa-free, 52 need an e-Visa, 42 need a visa from an embassy or consulate and 1 is not admitted for Georgia.