Georgia: The Migration Department of Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs expelled 91 citizens from different countries in November- December of 2024 who were staying in Georgia without any legal grounds.
The Georgian Migration Department deported the citizens of Iran, Algeria, India, Morocco, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Pakistan, Nigeria, Iraq, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Russia, Turkmenistan and other countries.
It was also known that some citizens left the country voluntarily and some others were forcibly expelled out of Georgia through the measures taken by the department.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia recently posted this information on its official Facebook page on January 4, 2025. The Ministry also noted that among those deported citizens were the individuals who were involved in the protest rallies that took place in Tbilisi in the last two months.
It was also noted that the court subjected those protestors to administrative penalties. There were 25 persons in total, 10 of whom had already left the country.
The country’s citizens are glad with the decision of the Georgian Migration Department. Some say it is good to expel those protestors because they caused the country’s people to be stressed all the time. Some others say the law should be stricter in the country. Some others demand the government to throw such people away; they should be punished.
It should be noted that the Migration Department expelled 60 foreign citizens in October 2024. In October, the department deported citizens of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, Russia, India, Turkmenistan, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Iraq, Nigeria, Jordan, Algeria, Egypt, and Ghana, among which some of the expelled were involved in various forms of antisocial activities.
In 2024, the Migration Department deported 430 foreign individuals from the country, and the number is increasing year by year. The Ministry also noted that the year-by-year increase is 26 percent.
The Ministry also explains that its Migration Department is responsible for combatting illegal migration within the country. One of the main objectives of the department is the removal of foreign citizens staying in Georgia without legal grounds.
