Short answer
Most Pakistani passport holders need a Georgia e-Visa, and here is the catch: as of 21 October 2026, a Pakistani can only get that e-Visa if they already hold a valid Schengen visa, a visa of an OECD country, or a residence permit of a Schengen or OECD country. If you hold a valid visa or residence permit of a listed country, you may instead enter Georgia visa-free for up to 90 days. This is country Georgia, not the US state.
Do Pakistanis need a visa to visit Georgia?
Usually yes. An ordinary Pakistani passport is not on Georgia’s visa-free list, so most Pakistanis need a short-stay e-Visa before they travel. There is one important exception, built around a document you may already hold, which the next section explains.
Which Georgia this is
To be clear, this guide is about the country Georgia, in the Caucasus, between Turkey and Russia, with its capital in Tbilisi. It is not the US state. Pakistani travellers search for both, so make sure any advice you read is about the country.
The diplomatic passport exception
Georgia and Pakistan signed a visa-waiver agreement in 2023, but it covers diplomatic and official or service passports only. An ordinary Pakistani passport, which is what nearly all travellers hold, is not covered by that agreement and follows the rules below.
The document that decides whether you can even apply
This is the part that catches Pakistani travellers out, so it comes first. For many nationalities the Georgia e-Visa is open to anyone. For Pakistan, it is conditional.
What the official list says
As of 21 October 2026, Georgia’s e-Visa country list places Pakistan in the group of nationalities who must hold a supporting document to be eligible. That document is one of the following, valid at the time of the application:
- a valid Schengen visa;
- a valid visa of an OECD member country;
- a valid residence permit of a Schengen or an OECD country.
Without one of these, the official portal does not accept a Pakistani e-Visa application. This is not an agent’s rule or an extra document that helps your case. It is a condition of eligibility. A Pakistani with no such visa or permit, and who does not qualify for visa-free entry, cannot travel to Georgia on the e-Visa.
When can you skip the visa entirely?
If you already hold the right document, Georgia lets you in without any visa at all. This is often the cheapest and simplest route, and many Pakistani travellers qualify without realising it.
The visa-or-permit holder rule
Under Georgian Government Ordinance No. 256, a person holding a valid visa or residence permit of a listed country may enter Georgia visa-free and stay up to 90 days in any 180-day period. The list is long and names countries individually, but it includes the Schengen states, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Israel and the Gulf states.
| Route | Who it fits | What it needs | Stay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visa-free (Ordinance 256) | Holders of a valid visa or residence permit of a listed country | That document, valid on entry | Up to 90 days in 180 |
| e-Visa | Other Pakistanis, subject to the supporting-document rule | A Schengen or OECD visa, or a Schengen/OECD residence permit | Short stay, set by the portal |
| One-year visa-free | Not available to Pakistani nationals | Not applicable | Not applicable |
The condition on the document
The core condition is that the foreign visa or residence permit is valid on the day you enter Georgia. Georgia’s own guidance also treats some nationalities more strictly where the document is a short-term residence visa of under a year, in which case the e-Visa route is used instead. Carry the original document and be ready to show it at the border, because it is the basis on which you are admitted.
Which Georgia e-Visa do you need, and how long can you stay?
If you are not entering visa-free, you apply for the short-stay e-Visa. It is for visits of less than 90 days, and it is applied for entirely online.
Stay and validity are set by the portal
The exact stay and validity depend on your nationality, and the official portal calculates them when you apply. Its worked examples run from a 30-day stay inside a 120-day validity to a 90-day stay inside 180 days, both as multiple-entry visas. There is no single fixed figure published for Pakistan, so rely on the dates the portal and your own visa show, not on a number an agent quotes.
Validity is not the same as length of stay
As with most visas, the validity is the window in which you must enter, and the stay is how long you may remain once inside. Plan your flights so you enter within the validity window and leave within the days the visa allows.
How much does the Georgia e-Visa cost, and how long does it take?
The e-Visa fee is modest, but the payment has a tight deadline that trips people up, so read this before you start the application.
The official fee and timing
As of 21 October 2026, the official portal lists the e-Visa fee as 20 US dollars plus a 2 per cent service fee, paid by Visa or Mastercard. A decision takes not less than five working days. The state tax must be paid within five hours of the portal’s email, or the application is cancelled and you have to start again.
What an agent’s quote should show
- whether you even need the e-Visa, or qualify for visa-free entry;
- the 20 US dollar fee and the 2 per cent service fee, listed separately;
- their own service charge, on its own line;
- what happens to your money if the application is refused.
The official fee is small, so most of a large quote is margin. A quote that does not first ask what visa or permit you hold is skipping the single most important question for a Pakistani applicant.
What documents do you need for a Georgia visit visa?
The e-Visa is applied for online, and the portal sets out what you upload and what you carry. Travel insurance is a required item, not an optional add-on, which many travellers miss.
The passport rule
The passport must be valid for at least three months beyond the validity of the visa you request, have at least two blank pages, be undamaged, and have been issued within the last ten years. Check all four points before you apply.
What the portal asks for
- a valid passport and a biometric-style photo;
- a copy of your supporting document, the Schengen or OECD visa or permit;
- proof of accommodation, such as a hotel booking or rental agreement;
- a round-trip flight ticket, where you are travelling by air;
- travel and health insurance valid across the whole of Georgia, covering medical costs and death;
- proof of financial means, with bank statements covering the last three months accepted.
Buy an insurance policy that covers your full trip and all of Georgia, because a policy limited to one city or a few days does not meet the rule. Keep every document together, in print and on your phone.
What happens at Georgian immigration when you land?
An officer checks your passport and either your e-Visa or your qualifying foreign document, and decides whether to admit you. An approved e-Visa or a valid supporting document lets you travel, but the officer at the border makes the final decision.
Questions you should be ready for
- Why are you visiting, and for how many days?
- Where are you staying, and can you show the booking?
- When is your return flight?
- Do you have insurance and enough money for the trip?
- If visa-free, can you show the visa or permit that lets you enter?
Answer briefly and truthfully, and let your documents back you up. If you are entering visa-free on the strength of another country’s visa, the one document you must not leave at home is that visa or permit.
Can you work in Georgia on a visit visa, and what if you overstay?
No, you cannot work on a visit visa, and overstaying has consequences that follow you to the next application. Both are worth understanding before you travel.
Working needs a different status
The short-stay visa and the e-Visa carry no right to work. Georgian law says a residence permit is generally not issued on the basis of an ordinary short-stay visa, so a visit cannot simply be converted into work. Lawful work needs a separate immigration visa and a work residence permit.
Overstaying
Under Georgia’s law on the legal status of aliens, a person who stays beyond their lawful period must pay the statutory penalty for unlawful stay. Until that penalty is paid, the person is refused a visa and entry to Georgia, and a receipt showing payment has to be presented at any later application. The law also allows an entry ban of six months to five years. I am not quoting a fixed fine here because the current figure is not published clearly on the official page, and a wrong number is worse than none. The safe course is simple: leave within the time your visa allows.
There is no Georgian embassy in Pakistan
This matters for anyone expecting to visit a consulate or a visa centre, as they would for many other countries.
As of 21 October 2026, there is no Georgian embassy, consulate or visa application centre in Pakistan. The Embassy of Georgia in Tehran is accredited to Pakistan. For a visit, this is not a problem, because the e-Visa is applied for entirely online and the visa-free route needs no Georgian office at all. It does mean that anyone in Pakistan claiming to run a Georgian visa counter is not an official one, so be careful who you hand your passport and money to.
What happens at the Pakistani airport before you fly to Georgia?
FIA immigration officers check that your passport and visa are genuine and valid, and they may ask about your trip. Visitors should carry a return ticket, accommodation details and proof of funds. Anyone travelling for work needs emigration protection.
What FIA says it checks
As of 21 October 2026, FIA’s published guidance lists these for visit visa travellers: a valid passport, a return ticket, a confirmed hotel booking with advance payment, and sufficient funds. Its Travellers’ Guide says officers ask questions to confirm your identity and the authenticity of your passport and visa, and a second officer re-checks the documents before you enter the departure lounge.
If you are offloaded
Being stopped from boarding is often called offloading. FIA’s guide says the shift in-charge will personally tell an offloaded passenger the reasons, and that if your passport and visa are genuine and valid, with no apparent misdeclaration of facts, immigration staff are not authorised to offload you. FIA’s helplines are 1991 and 051-111-345-786.
The protector requirement for work
Under the Emigration Ordinance 1979, every Pakistani going abroad on a work visa must be protected by the Protector of Emigrants. A person who is really going to Georgia for a job cannot fix that by holding a tourist e-Visa, and FIA lists a protector stamp among the documents for work visa travellers, not for tourists or family visitors.
How do you spot a fake e-Visa website or a Georgia job scam?
Use only the government portal for the e-Visa, and treat any job that starts on a visit visa as a scam until proven otherwise. In Georgia’s case there is an extra warning sign to watch for.
The impossible e-Visa promise
Because the Georgia e-Visa needs a Schengen or OECD visa or permit for Pakistani applicants, an agent who promises to get you one without asking what you already hold is either mistaken or dishonest. No one can file a valid Pakistani e-Visa application without that supporting document. A promise to do so should end the conversation.
Fake and unofficial e-Visa websites
- Sites with Georgia visa in the name that charge far more than the 20 US dollar official fee.
- Any page that promises approval, or sells a faster visa with no official basis.
- Emails or messages with an approved e-Visa you never applied for.
- A counter in Pakistan presenting itself as a Georgian consulate, when none exists.
The visit visa with a job offer
The usual pattern is a package: a visa, a ticket and a promised job, with the work permit to be arranged after arrival. The short-stay route gives no right to work, so the promise is empty. Only a licensed Overseas Employment Promoter may recruit people in Pakistan for work abroad, and Section 22 of the Emigration Ordinance 1979 makes it an offence for anyone else to take money for a job abroad. The guide to checking a visa consultant in Pakistan sets out the checks and where to report fraud. If you have already paid someone and have doubts, you can book a consultation and bring the receipts and messages.
How do you apply, step by step?
The order below starts with the question that matters most for a Pakistani traveller: do you even need the visa, and can you get it?
Work out whether you even need a visa
First check what you already hold. If you have a valid visa or residence permit of a listed country, such as a Schengen state, the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan or a Gulf state, you may enter Georgia visa-free under its own rules. If not, you will need the e-Visa.
Confirm your supporting document for the e-Visa
For Pakistani applicants the e-Visa itself is conditional. You must hold a valid Schengen visa, a valid visa of an OECD member country, or a valid residence permit of a Schengen or OECD country. Without one of these, the official portal does not accept a Pakistani application.
Check your passport
The passport must be valid for at least three months beyond the validity of the visa you request, have at least two blank pages, be undamaged, and have been issued within the last ten years. Fix any of these before you apply.
Apply on the official e-Visa portal and pay
Apply only on evisa.gov.ge. Upload your passport, photo and supporting document, then pay the fee by card. The state tax must be paid within five hours of the portal’s email, or the application is cancelled and you start again.
Arrange insurance, accommodation and a ticket
Hold travel and health insurance valid across the whole of Georgia, proof of accommodation such as a hotel booking, a round-trip ticket where you are flying, and bank statements covering the last three months to show the trip is affordable.
Receive the e-Visa, print it and travel lawfully
When the e-Visa arrives, check the name, passport number and dates, and print it. Enter Georgia within the visa’s validity window, stay within the days it allows, and leave on time, because an unpaid overstay penalty blocks you from entering again.
What goes wrong most often?
Paying for an e-Visa you cannot get
The most expensive mistake is paying an agent for a Georgia e-Visa without holding a Schengen or OECD visa or permit. The application cannot succeed, and the money often does not come back. Check what you hold first.
Missing the visa-free route
The opposite mistake is paying for an e-Visa when you already hold a visa or permit that lets you enter visa-free. Many Pakistani travellers with a US, UK or Schengen visa could simply fly in. Check the visa-free rule before you apply for anything.
Buying the wrong insurance
The portal asks for insurance valid across the whole of Georgia. A policy limited to one city, or to only part of the trip, does not meet the rule. Buy cover for the full country and the full dates.
Missing the five-hour payment window
The state tax must be paid within five hours of the portal’s email. A traveller who applies and then steps away finds the application cancelled. Apply only when you are ready to pay by card straight away.
Treating the visa as a promise of entry
An e-Visa or a qualifying document lets you travel, but the officer at the border decides. Arrive with accommodation, insurance, a return ticket and enough money, and your answers should match your papers.
A realistic example
This is a hypothetical illustration, not a real client. Bilal and his wife Ayesha live in Islamabad. He holds a valid UK visit visa from a trip last year, and they want a week in Tbilisi and Batumi.
- Four weeks before. They read the rules and realise his valid UK visa lets him enter Georgia visa-free for up to 90 days. Ayesha holds no such visa, so she checks whether she can apply for the e-Visa.
- Three weeks before. Ayesha has a valid Schengen visa from a family trip, which is a supporting document, so she applies on evisa.gov.ge and pays within the five-hour window.
- Two weeks before. They buy insurance valid across all of Georgia, hold a refundable hotel and a return flight, and gather bank statements for the last three months.
- The e-Visa arrives. Ayesha checks her name, passport number and dates, and prints it. Bilal prints his UK visa page.
- At both airports. He shows his passport and UK visa, she shows her passport and e-Visa, and both carry the insurance, hotel and bank papers.
The trip works because they answered the right question first: not how to buy a visa, but whether they needed one and could get it.
The version that goes wrong
Now imagine their cousin Kamran, who holds no other country’s visa. An agent takes a large fee and promises a Georgia e-Visa in a week. Because Kamran has no Schengen or OECD visa or permit, no valid application can be filed. Weeks pass, the visa never comes, and getting the money back is a fight. One check of the eligibility rule at the start would have saved all of it.
Key takeaways
- Most Pakistanis need a Georgia e-Visa, but as of 21 October 2026 they can only get it if they hold a valid Schengen visa, an OECD-country visa, or a Schengen or OECD residence permit.
- A Pakistani who holds a valid visa or residence permit of a listed country can instead enter Georgia visa-free for up to 90 days in 180.
- Pakistan is not on Georgia’s one-year visa-free list, so that longer stay does not apply.
- The e-Visa fee is 20 US dollars plus a 2 per cent service fee, decided in not less than five working days, with the payment due within five hours of the portal’s email.
- Travel and health insurance valid across the whole of Georgia is a required document, along with accommodation, a ticket and three months of bank statements.
- There is no Georgian embassy or visa centre in Pakistan; the e-Visa is applied for online and the accredited mission is in Tehran.
- The visit route gives no right to work, and an unpaid overstay penalty blocks you from entering Georgia again.
Frequently asked questions
Do Pakistanis need a visa to visit Georgia?
Usually yes. As of 21 October 2026, an ordinary Pakistani passport is not on Georgia’s visa-free list, so most Pakistanis need a short-stay e-Visa. The main exception is a Pakistani who holds a valid visa or residence permit of a listed country, who may enter visa-free under a separate Georgian rule. This is country Georgia in the Caucasus, not the US state.
Can I enter Georgia visa-free if I hold a US, UK or Schengen visa?
In most cases yes. Under Georgian Government Ordinance No. 256, a person holding a valid visa or residence permit of a listed country, which includes Schengen states, the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan and the Gulf states, may enter Georgia visa-free and stay up to 90 days in any 180-day period. The document should be valid on the day you enter. Carry it with you.
Can I get a Georgia e-Visa without another country’s visa?
For Pakistani applicants, no. On the official e-Visa country list, Pakistan sits in the group that must hold a supporting document to be eligible: a valid Schengen visa, a valid visa of an OECD member country, or a valid residence permit of a Schengen or OECD country. Without one of these, the portal does not accept a Pakistani e-Visa application.
Is the Georgia one-year visa-free rule for Pakistanis?
No. Georgia lets citizens of many countries stay visa-free for a full year, but as of 21 October 2026 Pakistan is not on that list. Pakistanis fall under the e-Visa and the separate visa-or-permit-holder rule instead. Do not plan a long visa-free stay on the assumption that the one-year rule applies, because it does not.
How long can I stay in Georgia on an e-Visa?
The e-Visa is a short-stay visa, for visits of less than 90 days. The exact stay and validity are set by the portal for your nationality when you apply, and its worked examples run from a 30-day stay within a 120-day validity to 90 days within 180 days, both multiple entry. Follow the dates printed on your own visa rather than a figure from an agent.
How much does the Georgia e-Visa cost and how long does it take?
As of 21 October 2026, the official portal lists the e-Visa fee as 20 US dollars plus a 2 per cent service fee, paid by Visa or Mastercard. A decision takes not less than five working days. The state tax must be paid within five hours of the portal’s email, or the application is cancelled, so be ready to pay when you apply.
How long must my passport be valid for a Georgia e-Visa?
The passport must be valid for at least three months beyond the validity of the visa you are requesting, have at least two blank pages, be undamaged, and have been issued within the last ten years. Check all four points before you apply, because any one of them can stop an application.
Do I need travel insurance for Georgia?
Yes, for the e-Visa. The official portal lists travel and health insurance that is valid across the whole of Georgia, covering medical costs and death, among the documents a visitor provides. Buy a policy that covers your full trip and the whole country, and carry proof of it with your other papers.
Is there a Georgian embassy in Pakistan?
No. As of 21 October 2026, there is no Georgian embassy, consulate or visa application centre in Pakistan. The Embassy of Georgia in Tehran is accredited to Pakistan. For a visit, you do not need an in-country office, because the e-Visa is applied for entirely online on the government portal.
What happens if I overstay in Georgia?
Under Georgia’s law on the legal status of aliens, a person who stays beyond their lawful period must pay the statutory penalty for unlawful stay, and is refused a visa and entry to Georgia until it is paid. The law also allows an entry ban of six months to five years. The safe course is to leave within the time your visa allows.
Can I work in Georgia on a visit visa?
No. The short-stay visa and the e-Visa carry no right to work, and Georgian law says a residence permit is generally not issued on the basis of an ordinary short-stay visa. Work needs a separate immigration visa and a work residence permit. An employer who offers a job to start on a visit visa is not offering lawful work.
Can Ch. Bilal Rasheed help me with a Georgia visit visa?
He offers a consultation in Lahore, on WhatsApp or by phone, with general guidance and an immigration advisor’s reading of any agent quote. The supporting-document rule catches many Pakistani applicants, so it is worth checking before you pay. No one can guarantee a visa or entry. He is an immigration advisor in Pakistan, not a Georgian lawyer.
