Refused entry to Georgia
This summer my girlfriend and I planned a trip to Georgia for one week. I am Ukrainian, so I don't need a visa to enter Georgia.
We flew from Kyiv to Tbilisi without any problems. However on a passport control in Tbilisi airport I was refused entry to Georgia without any normal explanation. My girlfriend went through, though.
After an hour of passing me from one person to another they put us back on the same plane we came to Georgia.
I was hoping in Kyiv someone can tell me what's going on, but no one had a clue as well.
At the end they checked my passport and said it's OK, and let me back to Ukraine. After this accident I visited other countries in Schengen zone without problems.
The official refusal letter that I received says:
Attached herewith is a photocopy of a fake/falsified Passport + copy of my passport(just a regular passport, nothing different)
The above-named Document was used by a person claiming to be: MY NAME
Who was refused to enter the territory of Georgia due to: He/She does not have documents necessary for entering Georgia as provided for by the legislation of Georgia.
This does not explain much to me because as Ukrainian I do not need visa or any special documents to enter Georgia. My friends went to Georgia few weeks later with just passport and it was OK.
Does anyone have an idea of what could be the reason for such refusal of entry? Why my passport was considered as fake, while it's valid in other countries. How can I fix this issue?
Update:
Previously I have contacted some officials from Georgia, but could not get any answers. But with this question I also send an email to Ukrainian Embassy in Georgia and finally received some explanation. I am still waiting for more information and will post an answer here once I get it and if it's not really sensitive.
Thank you for all the ideas and for helping me figuring this out.
Best Answer
As stated in your refusal letter, you were refused entry because according to Georgian immigration, your passport is fake. In other words, you did not have a document valid for entering Georgia, because fake passports are not valid.
Although you do not need a visa for Georgia, you do need a valid passport, which, in the eyes of Georgian immigration, you did not have.
As I see it, there are two possibilities:
the Georgians were amateurs and made an incorrect judgment when examining your passport (and from experience, I know they are extremely scrupulous about this - with my ID card the immigration folks at Kutaisi airport often take around a minute);
there is some manufacturing defect in your passport, in which case all you can do is report it to whomever issued it (you should provide your Georgian refusal letter) and hopefully get a new passport at no extra cost
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Answer 2
My wife used to be a Ukrainian citizen. After some years of using her Ukrainian passport, she noticed that the serial number punched through the pages was not the same as the serial number printed inside! This in itself would have got her thrown out of any country in the world, if any border guard had noticed it.
Perhaps the Georgians noticed something like this?
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