02/07/25
Georgia’s Interior Ministry has been granted authority to inspect foreigners’ homes and workplaces and enter private property, as the ruling Georgian Dream government tightens immigration rules and escalates rhetoric against illegal migration.
Legislative amendments to the country’s Law on Legal Status of Aliens and Stateless Persons, adopted on July 2 after accelerated deliberations during two days of extraordinary sessions in the GD parliament, empower a MIA–authorized body to carry out such inspections “with the aim to expose foreigners residing in Georgia without legal grounds or/and to check the living place of foreigners or their travel documents.”