Number of Georgians returning back to homeland from Russia has increased 10 times over the past 10 years
The number of immigrants from Georgia to Russia is 450,000 per the report. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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The number of Georgians returning back to homeland from Russia has increased 10 times over the past 10 years, Georgia’s State Commission on Migration Issues reports.
The State Commission on Migration Issues has published a report Migration Profile of Georgia (2019), which reads that 6,345 Georgian citizens arrived in Russia and 4,314 returned in Georgia in 2018, while 7,325 Georgian citizens arrived in Russia and only 416 returned in homeland in 2011.
The number of immigrants from Georgia to Russia [as of 2018] is 450,000 per the report.
A report released by the State Commission on Migration reads that 46 per cent of Georgian families [2018] that have a family member abroad depend on this individual for their only income.
Tax revenue for the Georgian state budget paid by foreign-owned enterprises in Georgia increased and reached 945.1 million GEL in 2018, reports data from the State Commission on Migration Issues
The amount of money transfers to Georgia in September 2019 was $149.8 million, which is a 13.9 per cent increase compared to September 2018.
An agreement of regulation of labor migration between Bulgaria and Georgia was signed within the framework of the first official visit of the Minister of Labor and Social Policy of the Republic of Bulgaria, on September 30.
Georgia is negotiating with three EU member states, Germany, France and Poland to allow for the legal employment of Georgians in those countries, as well as with Israel, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia reports.
Representative of the International Organization for Migration Marc Hulst says that the number of Georgian asylum seekers in the EU member states is decreasing, which benefits the Georgian-EU visa waiver agreed upon last year.