More than 20,000 Georgian citizens have travelled visa-free to EU

Seventy-nine days on from the introduction of the visa-free regime between Georgia and European Union (EU) preliminary data is now rolling in.

Between March 28 and today, more than 20,000 citizens of Georgia have travelled visa-free in Schengen area and only a handful of people were denied entry at the border.

Georgian State Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Victor Dolidze talked about these numbers today.

"We will have no three-month statistics until the end of June, but so far I only can say positive things about the numbers we have today”, Dolidze said.

He added that there were only a few people who were denied entry and the reason of such decisions were "technical circumstances” and improper documentation.

"The campaign we ran to raise awareness of the visa-free travel regulations turned out to be successful”, Dolidze said.

The regulation lifting visa requirements for Georgians entered into effect on March 28.

The Agenda.ge team was among the first travellers to cross the EU border visa-free. You can read our reportage on Georgia’s first visa-free voyage to the EU here.