Guide · Georgia (the country)
A bank abroad, a visa officer or a foreign partner asked for "the company registration extract, in English". Georgia's registry issues that document in English itself, for 26 GEL on top of the normal fee. This guide covers how to order it, what it costs online and at the counter, when you also need an apostille, when you still need a translation, and how long the whole chain takes.
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What they are asking for
In Georgia the official proof that a company exists, who runs it and who owns it is the extract (ამონაწერი) from the "Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-Entrepreneurial (Non-Commercial) Legal Entities", kept by the National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR). Asked for a "certificate of incorporation", a "certificate of good standing" or a "company registration extract" from Georgia, this is the document to send: it carries the status, directors, partners and any liquidation or insolvency proceedings in one signed file, and English-language guides treat it as Georgia's equivalent of a certificate of good standing (georgiaregister.net, a secondary source, read 13 Sep 2026).
Anyone can order it for any company. NAPR's own FAQ says the extract "is issued to any person upon a relevant request" (napr.gov.ge FAQ, checked 13 Sep 2026). No power of attorney is needed, which matters when the company is your counterparty rather than your own.
The register itself is kept in Georgian. NAPR's search site says so on its English front page: under Article 14 of the General Administrative Code the language of proceedings is Georgian, "therefore registered data as name, surname and firm name can be found in Georgian" (enreg.reestri.gov.ge, checked 13 Sep 2026). The English extract is NAPR's own rendering of those records.
What you receive
We read an English extract a Georgian non-profit published about itself, prepared by NAPR in December 2023. We do not link it here because, like every extract, it prints the personal numbers of the people on its board. Its structure is the one you should expect:
What it is not: a translation of the company's charter or of the filings behind it. Those stay in Georgian in the registration file. If a receiver wants the charter in English, that is a separate translation job.
Step by step
We found no official page, on 13 Sep 2026, stating whether a foreign passport alone opens a my.gov.ge account. The counter and an authorised person work regardless.
What it costs
NAPR lists two extract tariffs, and the 26 GEL English add-on goes on top of either. The totals below are the extract fee plus 26 GEL.
From napr.gov.ge/en/page/fees-and-terms, checked 13 Sep 2026: "Preparation of extract" 20 GEL (1 working day) or 75 GEL (same day); "Extract requested electronically via the Internet" 13 GEL or 52 GEL; English-language extract plus 26 GEL. The same page lists "Preparation of information from the Registry" at 13, 26 and 39 GEL: that is a different service, not the extract. Our Georgia guide listed those as counter extract prices until 13 Sep 2026; corrected. Electronic copies of documents in the archive are free and take 4 working days.
Before you pay for more
There are three levels of formality. Ask the receiver in writing which one they need, how recent the extract must be, and whether a PDF will do. The answer decides whether you spend 39 GEL or several hundred.
Level 2
Georgia's competent authority for apostilles is the Public Service Development Agency (PSDA) of the Ministry of Justice (HCCH authority listing, checked 13 Sep 2026). You apply at a PSDA office or any Public Service Hall; "anyone interested may apply". Documents issued by administrative bodies of Georgia qualify, and so does "the printed electronic document certified by an authorized person or the electronic copy", which covers an extract ordered online.
Order of operations: get the extract first, then apostille the registry's document, not a copy you made.
Tariffs from sda.gov.ge/en/products/apostille-and-legalization, checked 13 Sep 2026. Georgia launched the e-Apostille in late 2020 (Georgia Today, 28 Dec 2020); the old verification address apostille.cra.ge now redirects to PSDA's apostille checker. PSDA also lists "documents issued by the administrative body related to customs and commercial operations" as not apostillable; the Hague Conference reads that exclusion narrowly and company extracts are apostilled routinely, but if a clerk hesitates, that line is why.
Level 3
Option A: NAPR's English version. The cheapest official English at 26 GEL, with no translator to vouch for. English only.
Option B: PSDA's translation plus apostille. The agency that apostilles also translates documents it certifies, at 30 GEL per page, into English, Italian, French, Spanish, Greek, Russian, German or Turkish, and it can apostille its own translation (sda.gov.ge, checked 13 Sep 2026). It is the one-counter route for German, French or Italian.
Option C: a translator plus a Georgian notary. A notary certifies the translation's accuracy or the translator's signature. Georgia's notary tariff (Government Resolution 507, English text as amended to 2013) sets GEL 1 per page for certifying a translation and GEL 2 for a signature, before VAT and before the translator's own fee, which is agreed freely (notary.ge PDF, read 13 Sep 2026; the text may have been amended since). Watch the catch: PSDA's list of documents it will not apostille includes "notarial acts: certification of the authenticity of a copy of the original document and translation from one language to another". A notarised translation is useful inside Georgia; for abroad, use option B or translate in the destination country.
Option D: a sworn or certified translator in the destination country. Some authorities accept only their own court-listed translators. Send the apostilled extract; they translate both.
Never present a machine translation of the Georgian PDF as the company's extract.
How long
| You need | Route | Time | State fees |
|---|---|---|---|
| English extract | Online, next working day | 1 day | 39 GEL |
| English extract, e-apostille | Online extract, then e-Apostille with an e-signature | up to 4 days | 89 GEL |
| English extract, paper apostille, cheap | Counter extract, apostille by the 8th working day | up to 9 days | 76 GEL |
| Everything today | Counter extract same day, apostille same day | same day, if you start early | 251 GEL |
How recent must it be? We found no Georgian rule that makes an extract expire; the extract is a snapshot dated to the minute of preparation. Receivers set their own limit; secondary sources quote anything from 15 to 30 days to three to six months. Ask, then order close to the date you submit, and expect the count to start from the preparation date printed on the extract.
Table totals add up the official tariffs above; courier and translator fees are extra.
What goes wrong
At scale
Screening a list of Georgian counterparties before deciding which deserve an extract? Reestri reads the free search layer of the same registry as pay-per-lookup tools on Apify. I built it and I sell it; no subscription, and Apify's free monthly credit covers first runs.
Be clear about what it returns for Georgia: search-level data only. Name in Georgian with a transliteration, the identification code, legal form and status, with a source URL, timestamp and content hash per record. No founders, no directors, no shares: those exist only in the extract, and the tools do not order extracts or pass the registry's captcha.
Also callable by AI agents as MCP tools; setup is on the front page. Journalists and researchers: lookups are free on request, write to soso@reestri.io with the names.
Our paid service
A finished counterparty check from the official registers, as an English PDF within a day, from $15 on Fiverr. See the packages on Fiverr →
Disclosure: sold by the author of this guide. $15 covers one company in one country; $35 checks Georgia and Armenia, with Armenia's declared owners and public contracts; $90 adds the official Georgian extract with founders and shares, ordered from NAPR by hand, and takes two days. Reports cover Georgian and Armenian companies only. Everything in them comes from the public registers this page describes, which you can read yourself for the state fees above.
Sources
The 9-digit code, the free search, the captcha-gated detail view, the person-to-companies search, and a scam checklist.
The 8-digit HVHH, the register search that now takes a tax ID, holding a certificate against the official card, and the signals of a trading company.