More than a thousand Georgian citizens repatriated from European countries during past four months
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1,260 Georgian citizens have been returned to their home country from the EU/Schengen area over the course of January-April of this year.
As the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports, they received 1290 applications about readmission from January 1st to April 30th while 1260 of them were confirmed and only 30 rejected.
The majority of repatriated citizens (854) have been returned from Germany, following France (105), Netherlands (102), Austria (88), Sweden (29) and Greece (21).
Since the transportation costs are covered by the requesting country, the repatriated Georgian citizens’ costs have been covered by EU member countries.
The agreement between the European Union and Georgia on the readmission of persons residing without authorisation defines procedures to be applied in case of readmission to their homeland of persons illegally residing on the territory of a foreign country.
The countries from which Georgians have been returned include Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Island.
The government of Georgia has announced changes in the law that will introduce tougher sanctions against Georgian citizens violating the Georgia-EU visa-free travel agreement.The announcement came after today’s special meeting at the government of Georgia headquarters.
Georgia continues to fulfill its visa liberalisation requirements, but there is a number of specific areas where further improvement of the implementation is expected. This is stressed in today’s report by the European Commission on fulfillment of visa liberalisation benchmarks.
Georgia is taking steps to ensure its citizens do not violate EU visa-free travel rules as the visa-free regime for Georgian citizens to the European Union comes into force tomorrow.
A total of 1,070 Georgian citizens have been deported from several European Union member states over the past three months for violations of mandatory terms of stay in the countries, the Georgian Interior Ministry said on Thursday.