{"id":194791,"date":"2026-07-07T17:25:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/194791\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:25:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:25:51","slug":"georgia-keeps-expelling-belarusians","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/194791\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia keeps expelling Belarusians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

July 7, Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>Georgia has expelled 54 foreigners, including Belarusians, over the past few days, the interior ministry reported in a Facebook post on July 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from Belarusians, the foreigners included citizens of Azerbaijan, Egypt, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan and other countries. They have all been banned from entering Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Describing the fight against illegal migration as one of its priorities, the interior ministry said that 2,090 illegal migrants had been expelled from Georgia since the start of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ministry has reported 27 times this year on the expulsion of foreigners, mentioning Belarusians on 11 occasions, including in February, March, April, May and July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of April, Pozirk<\/em> reported, citing its analysis of the Georgian migration authorities\u2019 data, that Georgia had expelled six Belarusian men and two women in January-March, a record high compared with six expulsions in the whole of 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trend appears to be upward as Tbilisi deported only three Belarusians between 2019 and 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall figures also point to an intensifying anti-immigration drive: Georgia expelled 363 foreigners in 2024, 1,311 in 2025 and 904 in the first quarter of 2026 alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year, Georgian authorities said they plan to deport 4,000 undocumented foreigners in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgian migration authorities are conducting ongoing raids to identify undocumented migrants, including door-to-door apartment checks, with Belarusians among those targeted. Local media and diaspora activists have reported cases of foreigners being deported on what they describe as trumped-up grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four Belarusian men and one woman were placed in a temporary detention center in the first quarter of 2026, according to the police data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, a visa-free country for Belarusians, is home to about 12,000 Belarusians, many of whom fled their country for fear of politically-motivated reprisals after the 2020 disputed presidential election, but their number keeps shrinking. Over the past seven years, Tbilisi has not granted asylum to a single Belarusian applicant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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