C1 — Within the Ordinary Visa Framework
The visa for coming to Georgia for tourist purposes is the C1 ordinary visa. Under subparagraph „ga“ of Article 7 of the Law on the Legal Status of Aliens, this category is intended for persons coming to Georgia for tourist purposes. Georgian visas are divided into categories — diplomatic, special, ordinary, immigration and transit — and may be short-term or long-term; C1 is the tourist form of the ordinary visa.
Precision matters: the tourist C1 is a national category of Georgia. Comparison with the visas of the Schengen area is appropriate by contrast only — Schengen is a different system with its own rules, and the conditions of the Georgian C1 are determined by law not through Schengen but through Georgia's own norms.