---
title: "Tourist Visa Applications"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/migration-and-immigration-law-en/tourist-visa-applications-en"
field: "Migration & Immigration Law"
description: "The C1 tourist visa in Georgia: application, deadlines and the visa-free alternative under the law. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-03-09"
updated: "2026-10-14"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Tourist Visa Applications

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/migration-and-immigration-law-en/tourist-visa-applications-en

## 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.

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### What is the C1 visa?

The tourist subcategory of the ordinary visa.

### How quickly is it issued?

Short-term — within 10 calendar days, electronic — within 5 working days.

### Is visa-free stay possible?

90 calendar days in any 180-day period; under a separate list — up to 1 year.

### Is it the same as Schengen?

No, the C1 is a national category; Schengen is compared by contrast only.