Giving birth in Argentina for families from Georgia: entry, the baby’s citizenship and documents

In short

According to the current official list, Georgian citizens do not need a visa to visit Argentina as tourists. Tourists may stay up to three months, and Migraciones can extend that once. A child of a Georgian citizen is Georgian by birth, wherever the child is born. Georgia generally restricts dual citizenship, but there is an exception for a child who acquired a second citizenship at birth — with an important deadline: the parents must apply to retain Georgian citizenship before the child turns 18.

• Georgia has an embassy in Buenos Aires, so you can register the baby and handle documents locally.
• If no retention application is filed before adulthood, Georgian citizenship ends.

Entering Argentina and length of stay

• Georgia is on the list of countries whose citizens do not need a visa to enter Argentina as tourists (according to Argentina’s official tourism portal). Older lists from Argentina’s foreign ministry showed Georgia as visa-required, so check the current regime with the Argentine or Georgian embassy before buying tickets.
• Tourists may stay up to three months. Migraciones extends this once, for the same period, in person; you apply within the last 10 days before your stay expires. Once it has expired it can no longer be extended — you only get an exit permit (habilitación de salida) valid for 10 days.
• A birth trip almost always runs longer than three months: arrival at 28–32 weeks, the birth, then 3–6 weeks for the baby’s documents. Work out your dates in advance. Once you file for the parents’ family-reunification residency, your stay rests on a precaria.
• Passport: check its validity with a margin, usually at least six months from entry. Airlines and border officers may ask for a return ticket, your address and proof of funds.
• DNU 366/2025 introduces a health-insurance declaration on entry (it applies once implementing rules are in place). Carry a policy for the whole trip; tourist policies usually do not cover childbirth.

Flights and connections

There are no direct flights from Tbilisi to Buenos Aires. The usual options go via Istanbul, Dubai, Doha or European hubs (Madrid, Rome, Frankfurt, Paris); some flights stop in Brazil.

• Schengen. Visa-free travel continues for ordinary Georgian passports (90 days in any 180). From March 6, 2026, the EU suspended visa-free travel only for diplomatic, service and official passports. The European Commission can extend the measure to all citizens, so check the status before buying tickets, especially non-refundable ones.
• Brazil is visa-free for Georgian citizens according to reference sources (up to 90 days). That helps if your connection involves leaving the airport.
• Book a single ticket: if you miss a connection, the airline rebooks you.
• After 28 weeks airlines usually ask for a doctor’s letter, and close to 36 weeks they may refuse boarding.

Documents from Georgia: apostille and translation

Georgia and Argentina are both parties to the Hague Convention, so Georgian documents need an apostille. It is issued at a Public Service Hall (House of Justice); same-day service costs more.

1. Marriage certificate — for the baby’s registration and the parents’ residency.
2. The parents’ birth certificates — for family-reunification residency.
3. Criminal record certificates from Georgia’s Interior Ministry for both parents — ordered at a Public Service Hall or online through the state portal, with an apostille. Migraciones usually expects a certificate no older than three months, so families often order it from Argentina.
4. Certificates from any other country where you lived for more than a year in the last three years.

In Argentina, documents are translated by a sworn translator (traductor público) — see our article on sworn translation. There are almost no Georgian translators in the Argentine register. Find out in advance whether you can get documents with English text, or have a notarised English or Russian translation made in Georgia with an apostille, followed by a sworn Spanish translation.

Names. Georgian passports spell names using the official national transliteration (for example, Giorgi, Tskhvediani). Use exactly that spelling when registering the baby so that the partida, the DNI and the future Georgian passport match. Georgian documents have no patronymic. If the other parent comes from a country where patronymics are used, read “Patronymics in foreign documents”.

The Argentine path

The Argentine part is the same for everyone: the birth, registration at the Registro Civil (within 40 days by law), the baby’s DNI and passport, an apostille on the partida from Argentina’s foreign ministry, then the parents’ residency through family reunification on RaDEX. Step by step: “Birth in Argentina: step by step”. A child born in Argentina is Argentine by birth and leaves the country on an Argentine document.

Georgian citizenship for the baby

• Under the Organic Law on Georgian Citizenship, a child with at least one parent who is a Georgian citizen at the time of birth is Georgian by birth. The place of birth does not matter.
• The law is built on single citizenship: an adult Georgian citizen who acquires another citizenship without the state’s consent loses Georgian citizenship.
• The exception for children. If a minor acquired a foreign citizenship at birth along with Georgian citizenship (like a child born in Argentina), the child keeps Georgian citizenship until 18. To keep it, an application to retain citizenship must be filed before adulthood. Either parent may file it, with the other parent’s consent.

Where to apply. Georgia has an embassy in Buenos Aires, also accredited to Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Ecuador and Bolivia. The birth of a Georgian citizen’s child is registered in the Georgian registry either through the embassy’s consular service or in Georgia — at a territorial office of the Public Service Development Agency, at a Public Service Hall, or through its remote service unit. Foreign documents must be apostilled and come with a notarised Georgian translation. The birth certificate itself is free, and registration is done no later than the next working day after a complete file is submitted.

What you will need: the Argentine partida with an apostille and Georgian translation, the clinic’s medical birth certificate, the parents’ passports and the marriage certificate. Ask the embassy when you book where to have the translation done (in Georgia or through the embassy) and how to submit originals.

The baby’s Georgian passport

• After registration you can apply for the baby’s Georgian passport — through the embassy’s consular service in Buenos Aires or at a Public Service Hall in Georgia. Check timing and whether the baby must attend when you book.
• Until the Georgian passport is ready, the baby travels on the Argentine one. According to reference sources, Argentine citizens can stay in Georgia visa-free for up to a year, so entry on an Argentine passport is technically possible. But schools, healthcare and public services in Georgia need a Georgian document.
• To leave Argentina with only one parent, the child needs the other parent’s authorisation (from an Argentine notary or Migraciones). If both parents travel, documents proving the relationship are enough.

If you stay in Argentina

• Powers of attorney. Before you fly, sign a power of attorney at a Georgian notary for a relative: certificates, apostilles, dealings with the Public Service Hall. What to cover is in “Powers of attorney before departure”. Once in Argentina, you can sign one through the Georgian embassy’s consular service (check which notarial acts it performs) or before an Argentine notary, with an apostille from Argentina’s foreign ministry and a translation in Georgia.
• Online. The Public Service Development Agency also accepts birth registration remotely, and criminal record certificates can be ordered through the state portal. Keep access to your Georgian phone number and electronic signature, if you have one.
• The age-18 deadline. The retention application does not have to be filed right away, but it is easy to forget. Set a reminder and keep copies of the baby’s documents.
• The parents’ passports. They are renewed through the embassy in Buenos Aires; appointments can be several weeks out.
• The parents’ residency. Certificates for renewing residency are easier to order through a representative: scans first, then apostilled originals by courier.

Common mistakes

• Not checking the visa regime before the trip and relying on old lists or friends’ advice.
• Missing the 10-day window for extending the tourist stay.
• Assuming the child’s dual citizenship is “permanent” and missing the retention application before 18.
• Bringing documents without an apostille, or a criminal record certificate that will be out of date by the time you file.
• Registering the baby’s name in Argentina differently from the parents’ passports.

How we help

We check documents before departure, work out the extension dates, and handle the birth, registration, the baby’s DNI and passport, and the parents’ residency. Full support is our Premium package, and the “Baby’s home-country documents” package ($290) takes care of registration at the Georgian embassy and the baby’s Georgian passport — see the after-birth packages. Rules for other countries are on Birth by country.