Documents for Georgia: apostille, legalization or nothing

Before a foreign document (a power of attorney, a certificate) can be used in Georgia, it may need an apostille, full consular legalization, or nothing extra — depending on the country it comes from. Check yours below.

Always In every case the document must still be translated into Georgian and the translation notarized in Georgia. A private document such as a power of attorney is first certified by a notary in the country of origin; the apostille / legalization / treaty exemption then applies to that notarial certification.

Nothing beyond a notarized translation

A legal-assistance treaty exempts official documents from apostille and legalization. You still translate + notarize in Georgia.

By bilateral treaty (8) — well-supported

By the 1993 Minsk Convention (6) — applied in practice

Accepted by Georgian notaries in practice, but Georgia left the CIS in 2009 and the strict treaty status is debated. Treat as “applied in practice”, not a hard guarantee, and confirm for high-stakes documents.

Apostille (113)

Georgia is a party to the Hague Apostille Convention (since 2007). For a document from any of these members, a single apostille from the country of origin is enough — no consular legalization. Of 130 Convention parties, these are the ones not already covered by a treaty above.

Consular legalization (everything else)

If a country is not in the lists above — not a Hague member and no treaty with Georgia — documents need full consular legalization. This covers most of Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia (e.g. Iran, UAE, Egypt, Iraq, Nigeria).

Special cases

Use this data (open JSON API)

This page is backed by a stable, CORS-enabled JSON feed, free to reuse with attribution — so you can build your own checker, form or bot on top of it without scraping.

/georgia-document-legalization.json

const res = await fetch(
  "https://relocation.ge/georgia-document-legalization.json"
);
const data = await res.json();

// regime for a country (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2); anything
// not listed defaults to data.defaultRegime ("legalization")
const rule = data.countries.find(c => c.code === "DE")
             ?? { regime: data.defaultRegime };
console.log(rule.regime); // "apostille"

Response includes meta (dates, counts, sources, licence), regimes and bases label maps, defaultRegime, and countries[] with code, name, regime, basis, caveat?, effectiveFrom?, note?. Cache is one day; dataAsOf tells you the underlying source date. Please attribute to Relocation.ge.

Sources

Not legal advice. This structures publicly available rules; Convention membership and treaty statuses change, and individual authorities may ask for more. Confirm the current requirement with the receiving Georgian authority or a notary before you rely on it. Last checked 2026-11-12; underlying sources as of 2026-06-30.