---
title: "Teacher Work Authorization"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/migration-and-immigration-law-en/teacher-work-authorization-en"
field: "Migration & Immigration Law"
description: "Legalisation of foreign teachers in Georgia: D2 and C3 visas, the work permit and the 35 000 GEL threshold. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-06-24"
updated: "2026-11-07"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Teacher Work Authorization

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/migration-and-immigration-law-en/teacher-work-authorization-en

The legalisation of foreign teachers in Georgia is a meeting point of education and migration law: on one side the educational relationship and qualifications, on the other the migration frame of visas and residence permits. This page explains the latter — the routes established by the Law of Georgia on the Legal Status of Aliens and Stateless Persons: which visa categories fit a teacher, what the work residence permit requires, and where the preferential threshold for educational institutions lies.

## Visa routes for a teacher

The law offers two visa formats for pedagogical activity. The first is the D2 category immigration visa, intended for persons coming to Georgia on a scientific, sports, cultural or educational mission: a longer-term educational mission fits precisely in this category. The second is the C3 category ordinary visa, which covers participants in scientific seminars, conferences and other scientific-research, pedagogical, cultural or sports events: short-term pedagogical visits are written in this format. The long-term employment-based route, however, proceeds through the D1 — including, since 1 March 2026, holders of the right to labour activity.

## The work residence permit

Staying for work rests on a work residence permit: an applicant submits to the Agency a document confirming activity and a certificate that monthly income is not less than five times the average consumer subsistence minimum. The permit sits in the temporary regime: it is issued under the established procedure and extended on the same conditions — while the cessation of the activity or relationship removes its basis as well. For an employed teacher this means that continuing the relationship with the school and documenting it is the means of preserving the status: the contract for the new school year, the income certificate and the substantiation of the institution's turnover must be prepared as one package.

## The preferential threshold for educational institutions

The specificity of the sector hosting teachers lies in the turnover requirement: by law, the annual turnover of an alien's employer or founding educational or medical institution is at least 35 000 GEL per each alien seeking a work residence permit, while under the general rule an enterprise needs 50 000 GEL. For a school or an educational centre this is a real preference — and it is here that the teachers' route runs parallel to the medical personnel route.

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### Which visa does a teacher need?

D2 — for an educational mission; C3 — for events; D1 — for employment.

### What turnover does a school need?

At least 35 000 GEL per alien — the educational preference.

### Income?

At least five times the minimum monthly.

### A study permit?

No — it is the pupil's instrument; a teacher builds status on the work permit.