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Georgia to criminalise sham marriages
According to a legislative initiative by Georgia‘s Interior Ministry, sham marriages between Georgian citizens and foreign nationals entered into for the purpose of obtaining Georgian citizenship, a residence permit or another legal basis for staying in Georgia will become a criminal offence.
Foreign nationals involved in such marriages may be deported from Georgia and barred from re-entering the country for a period of between two and ten years. Alternative penalties include a fine, house arrest for a term of one to two years, or imprisonment for up to two years.
The legislative package also introduces a new category of residence permit for the spouses of Georgian citizens. The permit is intended to serve as a transitional stage before obtaining permanent residency. According to the ministry, the validity of the marriage will have to be verified before such a permit is granted, and a special commission will be established for that purpose.
The changes will also affect foreign nationals serving prison sentences. Under certain conditions set out in the law, the unserved portion of a sentence may be replaced by deportation from Georgia and a ban on re-entry.
The package further expands migration control mechanisms. The Interior Ministry’s Migration Department will be granted powers to conduct operational and investigative activities, which the ministry says will improve efforts to combat illegal migration.
The amendments also introduce procedural changes to court proceedings. Deadlines for filing appeals will be shortened, accelerated review procedures will be established, and in some cases courts will be able to review cases without an oral hearing.
According to the Interior Ministry, the amendments, drafted in coordination with the Justice Ministry and the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth, are aimed at tightening migration policy and creating a more “effective, transparent and secure” system for regulating the stay of foreign nationals in Georgia.
Georgia to criminalise sham marriages
New rules for foreign students in Georgia
Georgia‘s Interior Ministry has prepared another package of legislative amendments related to migration. The proposed changes will affect regulations governing foreign students studying in Georgia, residence permits issued for educational purposes, residence permits granted through marriage, and a range of other migration-related issues.
The initiative was registered at a meeting of the parliamentary bureau on Monday. Lawmakers decided to consider it under an accelerated procedure during the parliamentary session scheduled for 23 June 2026.
The proposed amendments include the following measures:
● Additional admission requirements for foreign students applying to higher education and vocational institutions, including the submission of an international language certificate and/or passing a foreign language or Georgian language examination administered by the National Assessment and Examinations Centre (NAEC);
● The government will set a maximum quota for the admission of foreign students to educational institutions;
● Educational institutions will be required to enter information into a unified information system regarding a foreign student’s eligibility for enrolment, enrolment status, suspension, expulsion, reinstatement, transfer, completion of studies and other relevant data. The system will be accessible to relevant state authorities;
● Educational institutions will face administrative liability for violations of foreign student registration rules. Sanctions may include fines, restrictions on admitting foreign students, and the revocation of authorisation;
● A residence permit for study purposes will be granted to an adult only if he or she is enrolled in an accredited higher education or vocational institution;
● Grounds for terminating a foreign student’s right to stay in Georgia (through the cancellation of a residence permit) will also include failure to meet academic requirements, violations of employment conditions, or physical absence from Georgia for a period specified by law.
According to official data, 44,400 foreign students are expected to be enrolled in Georgian higher education institutions at the start of the 2025–26 academic year. This represents an increase of nearly 20% compared with the previous year. The largest group consists of Indian citizens, numbering more than 16,000.
The largest groups by country are:
- India — 16,715 students;
- Israel — 2,173;
- Jordan — 2,165;
- Sudan — 1,546;
- United Kingdom — 1,134;
- Lebanon — 876;
- Nigeria — 594.
Approximately 91% of foreign students in Georgia are enrolled in medical programmes, most of them at private universities.
New rules for foreign students in Georgia
Journalist Afgan Sadigov, who was deported by Georgia to Azerbaijan in April, was “forcibly” taken away by “4–5 masked individuals in plain clothes” to an unclear direction, the journalist’s wife, Sevinc Sadigova, wrote on Facebook on June 8.
“Just now, 4–5 masked individuals in plain clothes stormed the place where Afqan was and forcibly took him away. No information has been provided about where they took him or the reason for it,” Sadigova said, later writing that he was taken to the Prosecutor General’s Office of Azerbaijan. No other details are known so far.
Earlier, on May 26, Sadigov said that he was not allowed to leave Azerbaijan, noting he was told at customs that the ban was imposed by Baku’s Prosecutor’s Office and Interior Ministry.
Sadigov, who had faced arrest and prosecution in Azerbaijan, was detained late on April 4 in Tbilisi on allegations of “insulting a police officer on social media,” soon after which the court ruled to deport him under the laws that allow deportation for foreigners committing administrative offences. The journalist had lived in Georgia since 2023 and spent over seven months in extradition detention following his arrest by Georgian authorities in August 2024. He was released on bail in April 2025, after the European Court of Human Rights issued an interim ruling barring his extradition to Azerbaijan.
The deportation closely followed Baku’s move to terminate the criminal case against Sadigov, which ended the extradition process, with Georgian authorities implying that the ECtHR measure barring his extradition was thus no longer relevant. Sadigov’s lawyers and ruling party critics have disputed the legality of deportation, fearing the journalist faces “gravest risks” to his life and safety in Azerbaijan.
The deportation came a day before Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s official visit to Georgia, where he met, among others, with Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili.
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