There is a PDF that every Georgia study-abroad page in Bangladesh quotes. It sits on the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs website, it is titled D3 study visa requirements, and it looks like the definitive checklist. Read item two: "valid UAE Residency ID (Emirates ID) or valid multi-entry UAE visa." It was written for applicants living in the Emirates. If you are applying from Bangladesh, the most-copied Georgia checklist in the market is not your checklist.
Georgia publishes no fixed proof-of-funds figure for a D3 student visa. The law sets a formula instead: five times Georgia's minimum living wage on the day you apply. The consular fee is USD 20, a long-term visa decision takes 30 calendar days, and a D3 is issued for 90 days, multiple entry — which is why the residence permit that follows arrival matters more than the visa itself. Bangladesh has no Georgian embassy; New Delhi covers you.
How much money does Georgia actually ask a student to show?
An amount nobody can quote to you in advance, because Georgia deliberately did not fix one. The Government of Georgia's Ordinance No 280 of 23 June 2015, which governs Georgian visas, says it in Article 19(3): the minimum sufficient funds for a long-term Georgian visa shall be "five times the minimum living wage established in Georgia on the day the visa application was submitted."
That base figure is the subsistence minimum published monthly by the National Statistics Office of Georgia, Geostat. So the bar moves every month, and it is indexed to Georgian living costs rather than to a number an embassy chose.
The most recent Geostat figure we could retrieve is the subsistence minimum for a working-age male, December 2025: GEL 283.30. Five times that would be GEL 1,416.50, or roughly ৳67,000 at the rate on 28 September 2026 (GEL 1 ≈ ৳47.31). Treat that as an illustration of the size of the number, not as the requirement. Two things stop it being a quotable figure: Geostat publishes several subsistence series (working-age male, average consumer, average family) and no government page states which one the ordinance means, and we could not retrieve the 2026 monthly figures at all. Ask the mission which series and which month apply to your date.
So what is the real document list for a Bangladeshi applicant?
The law's list, not the Emirates PDF's. Ordinance No 280, Article 19(1) sets out what any visa applicant submits: a visa application; a travel document; proof that the consular fee was paid; proof of representative powers if someone files on your behalf; proof of any penalty paid for previous unlawful stay; and documents evidencing five things — the purpose of travel, availability of funds sufficient for travelling and for the period of stay, travel insurance, the fact that you have a place of accommodation in Georgia, and onward assurances if you are transiting.
For a D3 the purpose-of-travel evidence is what the Emirates PDF spells out and the law does not: an admission letter from the Georgian university, the Minister of Education and Science order recording your acceptance, and the ministry order on the institution's accreditation and its English-language faculty list. Those three are genuinely useful. The Emirates residency item is not.
- Completed visa application and the auto-generated e-application report
- National passport and copy
- Admission letter from the Georgian institution
- Ministry of Education and Science order on your acceptance
- Ministry order on the institution's accreditation and English-language faculty list
- Travel insurance covering the visa validity period
- Proof of funds — a support letter or bank statement
- Proof of accommodation in Georgia
- One biometric photograph
- Consular fee receipt — USD 20
Bangladesh appears in the nationality list on Georgia's official e-visa portal, and the portal even offers "Study and Training (under 90 days)" as a purpose. It costs USD 20 plus a 2% service fee and takes "not less then 5 working days". None of that makes it a route to a degree. Ordinance No 280, Article 16(3) restricts the e-visa portal to C category short-term visas, and the portal itself says it must be used for short stays only. A D3 is a D category long-term visa and cannot be issued through it. The "study" option there is for a short course, not for enrolment.
Where does a Bangladeshi actually apply?
New Delhi. Bangladesh is not on Georgia's visa-free list — Ordinance No 255 of 5 June 2015 lists the countries whose citizens may enter without a visa, and between Bahrain and Belarus there is no Bangladesh. And Ordinance No 280, Article 12(1) is clear that "Visas abroad shall be issued by Missions."
There is no Georgian mission in Bangladesh. The Embassy of Georgia to the Republic of India states on its own contact page that it is "Accredited to the Kingdom of Thailand, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri-Lanka, People's Republic of Bangladesh and Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal." Its address is 169 Jor Bagh, New Delhi – 110003, telephone +91 11 4949 6000 and +91 11 4050 1424.
That one line has a consequence Bangladeshi families rarely budget for: a Georgian student visa filed in Delhi may need an Indian visa first, and that is a second application, a second timeline and a second refusal risk sitting inside your Georgian one.
What does the visa actually give you — and why is 90 days the number that matters?
Ordinance No 280, Article 4(6) says a long-term visa is issued with the right of multiple entries for "90 calendar days or one year", and then adds the sentence that decides everything: "A long-term visa for one year validity period shall be issued only when a D5 category visa is issued." D5 is the immigration category. D3 is not.
Reading those two sentences together — and this is our reading of the ordinance, not a line Georgia prints — a D3 study visa runs for 90 calendar days of validity and stay, with multiple entries. A three- or four-year degree does not fit inside 90 days. So the visa is not what keeps you in Georgia. The residence permit is.
What is the residence permit deadline, and why do students miss it?
Because it is counted backwards, not forwards. Government of Georgia Ordinance No 520 of 1 September 2014 — amended as recently as Ordinance No 416 of 26 August 2026 — requires the application to be submitted 40 calendar days before your lawful stay expires. Not forty days after you land. On a 90-day D3 that means filing by roughly day fifty, while you are still finding your feet in a new country.
The permit is issued by the Public Service Development Agency through Public Service Halls, and the fee depends purely on how fast you want it.
| Service | Fee | In Taka |
|---|---|---|
| 30th day | GEL 300 | ≈ ৳14,200 |
| 20th day | GEL 450 | ≈ ৳21,300 |
| 10th day | GEL 600 | ≈ ৳28,400 |
Taka equivalents are our arithmetic at GEL 1 ≈ ৳47.31 on 28 September 2026 and will move. Separately, the Law on the Legal Status of Aliens, Article 17(7), caps the review at 30 days "from the submission of all the required documents" — a ceiling on the process, not a promise about the fast tiers.
Passing the visa funds test does not mean you pass the residence permit funds test. Ordinance No 520 requires proof of legal income of a monthly amount not less than double Georgia's minimum subsistence level. Different multiplier, different stage, same Geostat base — and money in your own Georgian bank account can count as income. Plan for both, not one.
Do your Bangladeshi certificates need an apostille or an embassy stamp?
An apostille — and this is one of the rare countries where the answer is simply good news. Georgia has been a party to the Hague Apostille Convention since it entered into force there on 14 May 2007. The Convention entered into force for Bangladesh on 30 March 2025, and Georgia is not among the twelve states that objected to Bangladesh's accession. The link between the two countries is live, so a Bangladeshi apostille works for Georgia and the old embassy-legalisation chain is not needed.
One thing does still need doing. The Georgian Ministry of Education and Science, citing Order №224/N of 29 December 2011, requires foreign-language documents to be translated into Georgian and certified by a notary. Apostille, then translation, then notarisation. Budget the time.
How do foreign students get admitted in the first place?
Not through Georgia's national exams. Foreign applicants are exempt from the Unified National Examinations, and the application goes to the National Centre for Education Quality Enhancement — Aleksidze Street #1, Tbilisi, +995 32 2 200 220 — rather than to the ministry itself. What the centre asks for is copies of every page of your citizenship document, your school-leaving certificate, and a written consent letter from the institution naming the faculty and specialty you are joining.
Georgia attracts Bangladeshi families mainly for medical study, and the questions that reach us are almost never about the visa form. They are about whether the institution is really accredited, whether the money in the account will read as the family's own, and what happens in month three. Those three answers are what decide a Georgia file, and none of them can be given honestly without looking at your documents.
What we could not verify, stated plainly. Georgia publishes no Bangladesh-specific D3 checklist on any .gov.ge page — the only D3 checklist on mfa.gov.ge is written for applicants in the UAE, and the Delhi embassy's visa-information page returns a 404. We could not confirm whether Delhi accepts postal applications from Bangladesh; the MFA Consular Department hotline is +995 32 2 94 50 50. Student work rights: no Georgian government source we could reach states any right to work, any hour limit, or any student work permit. The Law on the Legal Status of Aliens says only that "labour activities of aliens shall be governed by the legislation of Georgia"; two Ministry of Health pages returned 403. The widely repeated "20 hours a week" for Georgia has no government source we could find — we are not repeating it. The e-visa portal also shows a "DuVerify" step at USD 15 for which we found no legal basis; treat it as unconfirmed. The ordinances above were read in their English translations, which may lag the Georgian originals. All sources read 28 September 2026.
Official sources: Ordinance No 280 — Georgian visa procedures · Public Service Development Agency — residence permits · HCCH Apostille status table
Related guides: Georgia student visa from Bangladesh · Apostille for Bangladeshi study documents
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Two things decide a Georgia file: whether the institution's ministry order is real, and whether your bank statement will read as your family's own money. We will check both with you before you spend anything on an application — and we stay with you through the residence permit, which is where most students are left on their own.
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