86 Georgian citizens illegally residing in EU return home
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Georgia continues to monitor the return operation of the Georgian citizens residing on the territory of the European Union (EU) countries without permission.
This week 86 Georgian citizens have been returned from European countries and specifically from the German city of Düsseldorf and the Greek capital of Athens, the office of Georgia’s Public Defender says.
The representative of the Department of Prevention and Monitoring of the Public Defender’s Office of Georgia attended the return of Georgian citizens from the airports of Düsseldorf Athens.
Border police officers of Germany and Greece handed over the Georgian citizens to the escort of Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs on board.
As reported, no incident had taken place and no force or special means had been used during the return operation.
A total of 1,760 Georgian citizens have been deported across the globe in the first six months of 2017. Georgia’s Interior Ministry revealed the statistics today.
The number of Georgian nationals seeking political asylum in Israel has been significantly decreased in the course of the last month, Georgia’s Consul to Israel Aleksandre Jishkariani told local media.
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.
Georgia is very close to implementing visa-free travel to the Schengen zone, so the country’s authorities have started providing its citizens with necessary information regarding visa-free trips.
2,561 Georgian citizens have been deported from foreign states between January and September of 2019, the Georgian Interior Ministry says.