Prime Minister Kvirikashvili encourages citizens to follow visa-free requirements
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New security measures will track the status of Georgian citizens travelling to the Schengen Zone after new legislation lifting visa-requirements for Georgians will enter into force on March 28.
Based on the new regulations, Georgian citizens holding biometric passports can travel to the Schengen Zone for a period of 90 days within any 180-day period for purposes other than working.
The new measures will trigger an alarm system if a Georgian citizen overstays the 90-day limit and will inform the relevant European authorities.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili said at today’s Government Meeting that it is important for Georgia to prove itself a responsible partner to the EU and to respect the conditions of the recently-received privileges of visa-free travel.
Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili introduces new security measures that will track the status of Georgian citizens travelling to the Schengen Zone at the Government Meeting. Photo by PM's press office
Prime Minister Kvirikashvili said that if a Georgian citizen overstays the 90-day limit, "we will send information to EU-member states...and begin actively searching for this person”, and added that although this process will be funded by the government, the violator will be ultimately responsible for all incurred expenses.
Kvirikashvili stresses that Georgian citizens should be aware of the possible consequences before travelling.
The EU-Georgia Visa Liberalisation Dialogue started back in 2012. Since then the country has carried out a number of reforms and adopted and amended a number of laws in order to align certain policy and legislative standards with those of the EU.
#VisaFree travel to come into force on March 28.Together w/ students, I will travel to #Athens and #Brussels to celebrate visa waiver
— Giorgi Kvirikashvili (@KvirikashviliGi) March 23, 2017
Prime Minister Kvirikashvili will be among the first to enjoy the right of visa-free movement across the EU. He will lead an unofficial youth delegation to the ancient Greece capital of Athens and later to Belgium’s capital of Brussels in the centre of Europe.
The Georgian delegation will celebrate Georgia’s historic achievement with a series of events.
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The regulation letting Georgian citizens travel to the Schengen Zone without a visa comes into full effect on Tuesday, March 28.
Georgian Foreign Minister Mikheil Janelidze says that, first of all, the European Union (EU) visa waiver is a recognition of the efficacy of Georgia’s recent reforms and institutions.
Agenda.ge’s team of journalists will be some of the first Georgian citizens to cross the EU border without a visa requirement early tomorrow morning.
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’s Deputy Interior Minister Shalva Khutsishvili says that 55,000 Georgian citizens have made use of Georgia-EU visa-free travel since March 28, 2017. 3,000 of those people have not yet returned back, after the expiration of the 90-day period, Khutsishvili told IPN news agency, saying this may not necessarily mean that the people violated the agreement rule.
The Georgian passport now holds the 50th place in the Henley Passport Index, which ranks all the passports of the world according to the number of countries their holders can travel to visa-free.