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Iran introduces visa-free regime for Georgians, visa-on-arrival for most countries

Georgian citizens can enter Iran  visa-free for up to 90 days, while most foreign nationals can obtain 30-days visas at Iran’s airports. Iran has reintroduced visa-free regime for Georgian citizens, Iran’s deputy ambassador to Georgia Mohsen Kebriaizadeh told journalists on Monday. The decision follows a phone conversation between Georgian Prime Pinister Giorgi Kvirikashvili and Iranian … Read more

Switzerland signs visa agreement with Georgia

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Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze and Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter. (Panjikidze’s Facebook page.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia and Switzerland has signed an agreement about simplifying procedures for the issuing of visas between the two countries.

Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze signed the agreement during a visit to her Swiss colleague Didier Burkhalter, according

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Georgia criticizes European embassies for being bureaucratic

Georgia's vice premier Giorgi Baramidze claims that European countries are not complying with a new agreement meant to simplify visa application procedures. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s vice prime minister criticizes foreign embassies in Tbilisi of not following up a new agreement meant to simplify visa application procedures.

Giorgi Baramidze was reacting to a new report by Liberal Academy Tbilisi, adding that

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A quarter of Georgia's population are missing

Ketevan Tsikhelashvili, head of Liberal Academy Georgia. (Photo: Human Rights Center.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – 23 per cent of Georgia’s population is away from the country, 80 per cent of which are illegal labor migrants and sole bread-winners.

These are some of the findings in a new report made by Liberal Academy Tbilisi, called Visa Facilitation and Readmission:

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Georgians struggling to get through European visa maze

Got through the maze: The Polish embassy granted Khatia Ergemlidze a visa, but along the way she had to pay a hundred dollars rebooking fee to the ariline and lost the first two weeks of her eight weeks' exchange program to develop leadership abilities.

TBILISI, DFWatch – Vakhtang Nadibaidze (53) stands in line in front of the Polish embassy, waiting for the answer to his visa application. Many Georgians have been in his place, facing the labyrinth it is to get a visa at the European embassies here.

He remembers how about

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