Living in Georgia
Living in Georgia as a Foreigner: Residence, Property, Tax and Daily Life
Everything that comes after the company: the right to be in Georgia, the right to work here, where you pay tax, how you hold property and what it takes to bring a family. Each article answers one question and says what the law leaves open.
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Living in Georgia as a Foreigner: What the Country Offers and the Four Questions to Keep Apart
People move to Georgia for a mix that rarely appears together elsewhere: a year of visa-free stay for many nationalities, a low but ordinary tax system, a company owned outright and set up from abroad, property open to foreigners and a route for families. Most mistakes come from treating four separate legal questions as one. This article sets out what the country offers and separates the right to be here, the right to work, where you pay tax and how you hold what you own.
Moving to Georgia: the Relocation Checklist for the First 90 Days
A move to Georgia goes well when things happen in the right order: documents legalised before you fly, a written lease in the first week, the business registered and the right to work obtained before the first invoice, the work residence permit filed inside the company's first three months, and the bank file built alongside. This checklist gives the sequence for a founder or remote worker, with the deadline behind each step and the article that goes deeper.
Visa-Free Stay in Georgia: the One-Year Rule, Visa Runs and Overstaying
Nationals of many countries may enter Georgia and stay for up to a full year without a visa at the time of writing. That year is a period of stay: it is not a right of residence, it does not reset by law when you cross the border, and since 1 March 2026 it does not allow you to work. This article explains what the visa-free year is and is not, what a visa run can and cannot do, visas in brief for everyone else, and what overstaying means.
Permanent Residence in Georgia: Who Qualifies, and the Path From a First Permit
A permanent residence permit has no expiry date and takes its holder outside the Law on Labour Migration. The Law lists a handful of grounds: ten years on temporary permits, a spouse's five years, a parent or child of a Georgian citizen, and the maturity of the investment route. What each ground asks for as the Georgian text read in October 2026, why the path begins with a first permit renewed without a gap, and how citizenship differs.
Working Remotely From Georgia for a Foreign Employer: the Right to Work and the Tax
An employee of a foreign company who lives in Tbilisi and works from a laptop faces two questions the freelancer articles do not answer. Since 1 March 2026 activity in Georgia needs the right to work unless an exemption applies, and the list has an entry for work for a non-resident. Once resident, salary for work done in Georgia is Georgian-source whoever pays it: 20%, declared by the employee before 1 April. The exemptions as they stand, the tax rule, a worked GEL example and what is left to the home country.
Buying Property in Georgia as a Foreigner: What You May Buy, the Registry and the Tax
A foreign individual or company may buy an apartment, a house, commercial premises or non-agricultural land in Georgia in its own name, and it is registration at the Public Registry, not the contract or the payment, that makes the buyer the owner. What may be bought, the checks before money moves, the off-plan and valuation pitfalls, and the taxes an individual owner pays on holding, renting and selling.
Bringing Your Family to Georgia: Family Reunification and the Six-Month Rule
A spouse and children join a residence permit holder in Georgia through family reunification: their permits rest on the principal's and match it in validity, and the file is the relationship, legalised and translated. One rule shapes the whole plan: the principal's permit must have more than six months left, so the family cannot follow a first six-month work permit. The sequences a founder can choose, what a spouse who wants to work needs, and what to plan for schools and healthcare.
Renting a Home in Georgia: the Lease, Proof of Address and the Landlord's Tax
For a foreigner settling in Georgia the lease matters more than the rent. A written lease in Georgian with a translation is the simplest proof of address for the residence permit file, the bank and the Revenue Service, and the same address should sit on every document. What a tenant checks before signing, why some landlords prefer cash and no contract, and why the tenant should insist on one anyway.
The 2026 Work Authorisation Rule: What Foreign Individual Entrepreneurs in Georgia Must Do
For years a foreigner could register as an individual entrepreneur, take the 1% small business status and start invoicing the same week. From 1 March 2026 a government resolution adds a step: a right-to-work authorisation for labour immigrants and self-employed foreigners. Who it covers, what the file contains, the transition deadlines, and what it changes for the freelancer on 1%.
A Georgia Residence Permit Through Your Own Company: Routes, Conditions and Honest Odds
The work residence permit through your own Georgian LLC, the investment and property routes, family reunification, the legal framework behind them, what each one actually requires, and the reasons applications fail - with worked examples and our fixed fees.
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