Georgia · Digital nomad
365-Day Visa-Free Entry (Government of Georgia Ordinance No. 255 of 5 June 2015)
Open. Citizens of roughly 95 countries — including the EU/EEA, UK, US, Canada, Australia, Japan, the Gulf states, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan — may enter without a visa and remain 365 days per entry. The 'Remotely from Georgia' digital nomad programme launched in 2020 is effectively redundant as a result, and we could not verify that it is still being actively administered.
A full year per entry, resettable by a single border crossing, is the most generous visa-free regime of any country in this region and removes the need for a residence permit for most practical purposes. It is why Georgia absorbed a large share of the 2022 relocation wave with almost no administrative friction.
Qualifying routes
365 days per entry; the clock resets on exit and re-entry
The facts
- Total landed cost
- Nil, beyond mandatory travel medical insurance with minimum cover of GEL 30,000 from 1 January 2026.
- Physical presence
- n/a — this is the presence right itself
- Family
- each traveller in their own right
- Permanent residency
- none — visa-free days do not build residence
- Citizenship
- none
- Language test
- none
- Dual citizenship
- Permitted
- Requirements
- passport valid at least 6 monthsnationality on the Ordinance No. 255 listtravel medical insurance with minimum GEL 30,000 cover (from 1 January 2026)
- VISA-FREE DAYS ARE NOT RESIDENCE. They count toward the 183-day tax residency threshold but build nothing toward permanent residence or naturalisation. You can spend a decade in Georgia visa-free and be exactly as far from a passport as on day one.
- STAYING BUILDS A TAX PROBLEM, NOT A TAX SOLUTION. Pass 183 days and you are Georgian tax resident — and any work performed while sitting in Georgia is Georgian-source and taxable at 20% unless you hold Small Business Status. Long visa-free stays are where people accidentally create the liability they came to avoid.
- IT IS AN ORDINANCE, NOT A TREATY. The list sits in a government ordinance and can be amended without notice. Georgia has adjusted it before.
- From 1 January 2026, travel medical insurance with cover of at least GEL 30,000 for the full duration of stay is mandatory for all foreign nationals, including visa-free entrants (Decree No. 602, 26 December 2025).
- Sources conflict on whether the entitlement is 365 days per entry or 365 days within a rolling window; the ordinance and the balance of evidence support per-entry, but border officers retain discretion over re-entry after a long stay, and visa-run patterns attract questioning.