Estatuto de repatriado (deportado mesjetiano) → naturalización simplificada (Ley de Repatriación de 2007 + artículo 14(2))

Holders of REPATRIATE status — Meskhetian deportees forcibly displaced from the Georgian SSR by the USSR in the 1940s, and their direct descendants — are granted Georgian citizenship under the SIMPLIFIED procedure (Organic Law Art 14(2)), feeding off a separate status ladder created by the Law on Repatriation (11 July 2007). Repatriate status is itself granted by order of the responsible Minister on the application of the displaced person or a direct descendant, and follows a registered 'seeker of repatriate status' stage before grant; it is a distinct civil status that ENABLES the Art 14(2) simplified naturalisation rather than conferring nationality automatically. (Distinguish from GE-SPC-02 compatriot status, which is a separate non-nationality status under the Compatriots Law and is NOT a citizenship pathway.)

• Holders of REPATRIATE status (Meskhetian deportees forcibly displaced from the Georgian SSR by the USSR in the 1940s, and their direct descendants) are granted citizenship under the SIMPLIFIED procedure with the Art 12 requirements (10-year residence, language/history/law exams, livelihood) disapplied, per a regulation approved by ordinance of the Citizenship Commission — this is a simplified-naturalisation route via repatriate status, NOT a restoration of former Georgian citizenship (deportees were not Georgian citizens of the 2014 regime).

• Repatriate status is granted by order of the responsible Minister (formerly the Ministry for IDPs/Refugees) on the basis of an application by displaced persons or their direct descendants (spouses/minor children may join with consent); applications had to be submitted by 1 July 2009, with review commencing 1 January 2010, and the status terminates on acquiring Georgian or foreign citizenship. - The Art 14(2) simplified naturalisation of repatriate-status holders is operationalised by a Government implementing ordinance: under Repatriation Law Art 11(1) the Government of Georgia was to adopt (before 1 April 2010) the 'Ordinance on the Simplified Procedures for Granting the Citizenship of Georgia to Persons Holding the Status of a Repatriate', and that Article expressly provides that on its basis 'a person holding the status of a repatriate shall not be deemed as a stateless person'. Repatriation Law Art 9(1) is the bridging rule: the status of a repatriate enables the holder to take citizenship of Georgia in accordance with Art 14(2) of the Organic Law; and Organic Law Art 14(2) provides that the Art 12 requirements do not apply to the repatriate simplified grant, which proceeds 'according to the Regulation approved by a normative act of the Citizenship Commission'. Repatriate status itself is granted by order of the Minister (now the relevant IDP/refugees ministry) after State Security Service examination and family-unity review (Repatriation Law Arts 6-8), with notification within 20 days (Art 8(2)). The repatriate-not-stateless rule materially distinguishes GE-RST-02 from the stateless-person routes.

Primary statute: Law on Repatriation of Persons Forcibly Exiled from the Soviet SSR (11 Jul 2007) Arts 1/3/9; Organic Law Art 14(2). Operative 2007-07-11–present. Authority: Public Service Development Agency (PSDA); President of Georgia (grant/loss decree).