From January to September 2026, 493 foreigners applied for asylum in Georgia. More than a third of them are citizens of Ukraine, according to the statistics of the Ministry of the Interior.
The first three also include citizens of Turkey and India. The top ten countries according to the number of candidates look like this:
Ukraine - 169 people;.
Turkey - 83;.
India - 45;.
Iran - 42;
Russia - 32;.
Pakistan - 17;.
Jordan - 12;
Egypt - 10;.
Azerbaijan and Cuba - six each.
During those nine months, five people were granted refugee status in Georgia: three Egyptian citizens, one each from Iran and Afghanistan. 17 other people received additional protection, including 14 citizens of Ukraine.
During this period, international protection was denied to 461 people.
It is not possible to directly compare the number of appeals and the number of decisions: the published data do not show how many decisions were made on new applications and how many on previously submitted ones. Therefore, these figures do not mean that out of 493 people who applied, only 22 people received protection.