Similar to the immigration and visa album, which unfolds for international students in the United States, another country seems to have exaggerated with the entire deportation. Georgia at the intersection of Eastern Europe and West Asia was once classified as a bridge between the continents. As a result, the country received its reputation as a hub for students and tourists with easier Visa processes as a top attraction.
After the independence of Georgia from the former Soviet Union in 1991, India was one of the first countries to recognize the country. According to the Indian Express, only 2,000 Indians were in Georgia in 2016, half of whom were students. From the end of December 2024, the estimates state that these figures rose ten times, and the students only reached the 16,000 mark.
However, a recently shared report paints a different outlook. A immigration lawyer specialized in student cases, which was connected to a law firm of the Georgian capital Tbilisi, argued: “The number of deportation that aims at the Indian and Pakistani nationals has increased significantly”, as the wire was cited. The right -wing expert also found that even people with valid visas had become victims of arbitrary rejection, prison sentence and deportations without a clear explanation or a proper procedure.
Even in view of these worrying figures, the lawyer certified that most families refuse to open their own shattering experiences. “The silence shows how anxious they are of further harassment,” he added.
The Indian medical student deported: “Like a criminal” in Georgia
However, only a few families who were exposed to similar incidents in Georgia were expressed with their attitudes shown – but with pseudonyms – about alleged racist profiles and made the country more “unsafe” than ever before. She also emphasized that the fear of sharing her side of history with real names was nothing more than a reflection of “How Unsure In Georgia”.
Such a traumatic case concerns a medical student from Indian origin who decided last July to leave Qatar and study medicine in Georgia. Suman's mother Meera announced with the outlet that documentation and financial burdens for her son, who was tied up, physically attacked and deported for five years, was confused in a shameful situation without reasonable arguments.
Since then, his mother has accused the country's officials, destroyed Suman's dreams and “only treated him like a criminal because of his skin color”. During the tedious three -year route, the family of Indian medical students tried their best to keep their son in Georgia. The extensions of Visa, TRC (Temporary Residence Card) renewal or university documentation for his studies to Tbilisi – you have done everything.
Unfortunately, nothing seemed to work in her favor. Ultimately, they fell back to their final resort and placed the help of a lawyer. However, this also only increased their financial burdens, whereby the fees correspond to over 25,000 US dollars.
Visa repeatedly rejected: Georgia detention, followed by deportation without warming
Citing the racial profiles as the alleged main reason for the consequences, the mother of the students revealed that her son was ultimately arrested without prior warning. According to her account, Suman's visa borrowings were all fueled by “systemic failures”, which led to claims about the rejection of his documents about “minor errors such as an incorrect e -mail address”.
In the arrest of her son, Meera was further described that Suman went outside of his apartment when he was violently dressed for two days. During this time, the student of Indian origin was denied water and “how his life doesn't care”, whereupon he was finally put on a plane. The entirety of experience has only triggered a mental struggle and left the nightmare from Suman, sleepless, anxious and “broken on the inside”.
Suman is not the only Indian student who was exposed to such fate. After detail of its detention, the place was not only overcrowded, but also filled with other Indian students who had not received legal support or access to messages for months. The person said was integrated into their medical faculty for almost five years, similar to other students who had been deported a few days before their final ceremony.
Although Meera, who did not reveal her real name, had alerted, he claimed that the fear of pronouncing she consumed and thought about disturbing consequences that she could unleash for her children.
The Georgian embassy in India, on the other hand, had nothing to share if they confronted themselves with the anxious condition abroad. Without giving crucial insights into the matter, the officials only said the explanation: “Please note that it goes beyond the competence of the message to involve the matter of border security.