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The family unity of a person with international protection is a value protected by Georgian legislation: the Law on Refugees regulates the procedure of family reunification separately, and that procedure binds the administration. This page explains the principle of family unity and the extension of status flowing from it (Article 11), as well as the reunification procedure — from the application to the decision (Article 46). The two norms together build the full story: the first sets the goal — family unity — and the second governs the road toward it; they must therefore be read together, not separately. Reunification is also a fully-fledged legal category in Georgian legislation: each of its stages — application, evidence, examination, decision — proceeds in a prescribed form, and a breach of that form itself becomes a procedural dispute.