Most “visa-free” entries buy you 30, 60 or 90 days. Georgia is the outlier: citizens of around 95 countries can enter with no visa at all and simply stay for up to a full year — 365 days — before they need to do anything. That single rule is why Georgia has quietly become one of the most popular bases for remote workers, long-stay travellers and people testing out a move abroad. Here is how it actually works in 2026.
The headline rule: up to one year, visa-free
Under Georgia’s visa-policy framework, nationals of roughly 95 countries and territories may enter Georgia without a visa and remain for up to 365 days from the date of entry, for tourism, business, visiting family or remote work. The list includes all EU and EEA member states, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, the Gulf states and many more — and, as we verified separately, Armenia and Azerbaijan and (under the CIS framework) Russia. The authoritative, current list is maintained by the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- No application, no fee, no e-visa: eligible nationals just arrive with a valid passport.
- The clock is 365 days from entry — genuinely a year, not a 90-in-180 rolling window.
- A common, low-friction way people reset the year is a “visa run” — a short trip out and back — though you should treat long-term stays as a tax-residence question, not just an immigration one.
What the year does and doesn’t cover
Visa-free entry covers stay — it is not, by itself, a work permit for a Georgian employer or a residence permit. You can run an overseas business or work remotely for a foreign employer during your stay (this is what makes Georgia attractive to nomads), but taking local employment, or staying beyond the visa-free year, means moving onto the appropriate route. Georgia also offers residence permits and the “Remotely from Georgia” programme for longer-term plans.
If your passport isn’t on the visa-free list
Nationals not covered by the visa-free rule can generally apply for the Georgian e-Visa online (the e-Visa is a separate, shorter-stay route, typically up to 30 days within a 90-to-120-day validity). So Georgia stays accessible either way — the difference is whether you get the generous one-year stay automatically or apply online first. You can check your own passport on our Georgia destination page and the relevant route page.
Who uses it
A few examples we cover with verified pages: Russian citizens get the full year visa-free — one of the few generous arrangements still open to the Russian passport (see our Russia → Georgia page), and Armenian and Azerbaijani citizens get the same one-year entry (our Armenia → Georgia and Azerbaijan → Georgia pages). For the wider context on the Russian passport specifically, see Russian passport holders and EU travel in 2026.
How we keep this honest
Stay lengths are easy to overstate, so we tie each one to an official source and date it. Georgia’s one-year rule is generous but specific — it is a visa-free stay, not a work or residence permit, and the list of eligible nationalities is set by the Georgian MFA and can change. Where a passport is not on the visa-free list, we show the e-Visa route rather than implying the year applies to everyone. More on our method is in our Editorial & Data Standards.