Talk:Visa policy of Georgia

I think Armenians and Azeris do not need a visa to Georgia, too, although they are not listed in the external link of the MFA. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Armenian_citizens and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Azerbaijani_citizens

No visas for 4 countries!

http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=23469 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.44.134.27 (talk) 15:18, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

The status of Russians is unexplained in the article — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zanganeh (talk • contribs) 06:28, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Swiss ID Cards to Georgia

After having spotted, reported and successfully corrected five critical Timatic errors within 2 weeks, I have become much more skeptical of its accuracy. The fact is, the government ordinance 522 restricts ID card usage to EU citizens. Regarding Swiss nationals, I'm currently awaiting a reply from the Georgian embassy in Berlin and Bern. If it comes back that Swiss citizens do indeed have to have a passport, I will report this error to Timatic.

For now I've just written 1 (according to IATA), 1 being the footnote for ID card usage

You should ask Georgian authorities to notify IATA of their full rules instead partially, and following your private requests to IATA to check the information. It's a bit unprofessional from Georgia not to notify IATA correctly and on time of their visa and passport policy.--Twofortnights (talk) 23:07, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Earlier errors concerned Tunisia, Lebanon, Sweden (my country), the Netherlands Antilles and Kazakhstan. For example, it previously said EU nationals can enter Tunisia with an ID card if only a hotel booking has been made, whereas to Morocco an organized tour needs to be booked. In fact, the Moroccan rules also apply to Tunisia, and the sad thing is, I learned this the hard way by getting sent back at Tunis airport for only having an ID card and a hotel booking.

Another thing: it previously said a Lebanese visa on arrival costs 50000 Lebanese pounds. This applies to embassy visas for 2-15 days, whereas the one-month visa on arrival is free.

I do not know how professional the Georgian authorities are, just that IATA isn't consistently informed of things.

I actually asked Georgia's Berlin embassy to report to IATA, should it be the case that Swiss ID cards are indeed not accepted. If I keep finding more errors, I will try to go more in-depth and make it a hobby to report errors to IATA (which I already am more or less)

Off-topic: I'm going to make a report on Moldova as well, because the list on EU countries with Moldova-compatible ID cards does not seem exhaustive. In fact, the rule states any EU citizen with a biometric ID can use it, and several countries with biometric ID:s (such as the Czech republic and Slovakia) are not mentioned.

IATA usually has some contact point of information, like visa policy department of the foreign ministry, if they are too lazy to notify then it's the airlines that notify them but they usually do it after they face a situation where they have to return a passenger because the data was outdated (just like your unfortunate situation). Unfortunately many countries are lazy to report regularly. Too many countries, especially in Africa, don't even have visa policies published anywhere else or they are simply lazy to even update their own websites, let alone notify IATA. For example Indonesia recently introduced VoA for Belarusians, Croatians and who knows what other countries because the internet gives us info from Belarusian and Croatian foreign ministries that have notified their citizens of this change, while all Indonesian websites remain outdated and of course they didn't inform IATA at all. Completely discrepant information comes from Egypt, Bangladesh, Gambia, Syria, Tanzania, Uganda which publish completely different information on different resources and there are many doubts about Iran (officially published policy wasn't updated in ages and mentions countries like Yugoslavia, information given to IATA mentions some online visa procedures which are under construction for years), Malaysia (on their official visa policy page they mention countries that ceased to exist even before the invention of the internet like Upper Volta), VoA facility in countries like Tajikistan, Nicaragua, Mozambique is dubious as some sources say it's no longer existent etc.--Twofortnights (talk) 00:47, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

The embassies of Bern and Berlin confirmed that indeed, Swiss cannot use their ID cards. I then reported it to Timatic and they got the same reply from their sources - the info has now been corrected. Meanwhile, I also asked them to verify whether Turks could use their ID cards - fact is, while they could for a while, this no longer applies. Georgians can still enter Turkey on theirs though. 178.83.201.96 (talk) 14:36, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks!--Twofortnights (talk) 14:52, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Conditional EVISA for certain countries

hi there,

Please follow the link by the OFFICAL GEROGIAN EVISA SITE and it states here clearly that nationals of these countries need to have VALID SUPPORTING DOCUMENT i.e shengen visa.

and please do the needful changes in this section of VISA POLICY and also in the VISA REQUIREMENT section of the given countries as PRE REQUISITE documents required to be eligible for EVISA.

https://www.evisa.gov.ge/GeoVisa/Countries/Index.html Anks7866 (talk) 16:40, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Anks7866 I checked the e-visa system and your link is outdated. Nowadays, while those nationals need a visa from an embassy without a supporting document, if they do have a supporting doucment they're visa-free altogether for 90 days in a 180-day period. So there is no such thing as conditional e-visa André Devecserii (talk) 19:58, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

Rearranging "Visa exemption" section

Current version of "Visa exemption" section is apparently not clear enough, so I make a new one, feel free to improve it. Whisper of the heart (talk) 17:44, 16 February 2024 (UTC)