Reviewed by Carlos Vargas, Texas Licensed Funeral Director (TFSC #119648) ·
Two posts, and neither one says which is yours
This page is about Georgia the country, in the South Caucasus — not the American state. It matters for a practical reason: a search for Georgian offices from Dallas will hand you an American state government long before it hands you a Georgian consulate.
Georgia keeps two posts in the United States. The Embassy of Georgia is at 1824 R Street NW, Washington DC 20009, main line +1 (202) 387-2390, consular section at extension 303, with a published hotline on +1 (202) 247-8498 and hours of nine to six. The same page notes the embassy is also accredited to the Bahamas, Haiti and Grenada. The Consulate General is at 144 East 44th Street, fourth floor, New York NY 10017, on +1 (212) 922-1722, with its own hotline on +1 (917) 334-0870 and the same nine-to-six day.
What neither of them publishes is a consular district. No page on either site says which American states it covers, so which post handles a death in Dallas is not something this guide can tell you from a source. Both publish a hotline; a Dallas funeral director should use one on the first day. We name offices and addresses in these guides, never the officers who staff them.
Eighteen services, and not one of them is a death
The New York post publishes its full consular service list, and we read all of it rather than searching it for a word. It runs to eighteen items: biometric passports for adults and for minors, an identification card, travel documents for adults and for minors, granting Georgian citizenship by way of exception, establishment of citizenship, termination of citizenship, registration of a name or surname change, issuance of duplicate certificates, marriage and divorce registration, notarial acts, consular registration, translations, and two certificates — one of conviction and one of no impediment to marriage.
There is no item about a death. Nothing on remains, nothing on ashes, coffins or urns, and no document checklist for bringing someone home. That is worth saying carefully, because an absence found by searching is weak evidence and an absence found by reading the whole menu is strong evidence. This is the second kind. The consequence for a family is direct: the requirements for a Georgian repatriation are not published anywhere we could read them, so they have to be asked for by telephone, and the hotline numbers above are the fastest way to do it.
An apostille country since 2007
Georgia is a contracting party to the 1961 Apostille Convention. Its row in the HCCH status table records accession on 21 August 2006 and entry into force on 14 May 2007, with a designated competent authority. On that reading a Texas death certificate is authenticated for Georgia by apostille, and there is no separate consular legalisation step to queue for.
The Texas half of that sentence is where we stop. The Texas Secretary of State returned nothing to our attempt on the day this page was written, as it did to every mechanism tried, so no Texas procedure, fee or turnaround is stated here. What can be said is which route applies, and the route is the apostille. Your funeral director will know the Texas mechanics; the thing worth carrying into that conversation is that Georgia does not need the document legalised on top.
The register is not at the consulate
Registering a death in Georgian civil records is not a consular function at all. It belongs to the Public Service Development Agency, the Georgian government body that runs the civil register, and death registration appears on its service list alongside the issuance of duplicate certificates and document requests.
What that page does not say is how a death that happened abroad reaches the register — whether it is filed through a post in the United States, by a relative in Georgia, or on arrival. We are not going to guess at it. The distinction still matters when you are planning, because two different things are often called the same word: getting the remains home, and getting the death recorded in Georgia. They may run through different offices on different timetables, and only one of them is urgent in the week after a death.
| Question | What the published sources show |
|---|---|
| Which US post covers Texas | Not published by either post — ask the hotline |
| What documents the post requires | No checklist published in the eighteen-item service menu |
| How the paperwork is authenticated | Apostille; Georgia acceded in 2006, in force 14 May 2007 |
| Who holds the civil register | The Public Service Development Agency, not the consulate |
| What any of it costs | No Georgian fee figure could be read |
What we could not read, said plainly
This guide is shorter on numbers than most on this site, and the honest reason is that the sources would not open. Setting the failures out is more useful than filling the space.
No fee is stated anywhere here. The central consular portal carries a tariffs section, but its address returned a not-found error, and the New York service list carries no prices at all, so there is no figure to quote. No Georgian customs, public health or port-of-entry rule for arriving remains is stated either: the revenue service’s duty-exemption brochure downloaded as a two-megabyte file with no readable text layer, so nothing in it can be quoted honestly. No rule distinguishing ashes from a body is stated, because none of the four official sites read mentions ashes, urns, coffins or sealed containers at all — and we would rather report that silence than invent a distinction out of it. No airline requirement is cited: four carriers’ own sites were tried and every one of them refused, timed out or returned an error, and an airline policy is not something to quote from anywhere but the airline. No nonstop routing between Dallas and Tbilisi is claimed.
Questions families ask about a return to Georgia
- Is this the country or the American state?
- The country, in the South Caucasus. Its posts in the United States are the embassy in Washington and the consulate general in New York; an American state office is not involved in a repatriation.
- Which Georgian office covers Dallas?
- Neither post publishes a consular district, so we cannot tell you from a source. Both publish a hotline, and calling one is the first step rather than the last.
- Does the death certificate need an apostille?
- Georgia has been in the Apostille Convention since 14 May 2007, so the apostille is the route and a separate consular legalisation is not. Confirm the Texas side with your funeral director.
Sources checked and case confirmation
Sources checked September 22, 2026 on the Georgian embassy site for Washington, the consulate general site for New York and its full consular service list, the foreign ministry central consular portal, the Public Service Development Agency and the HCCH status table for the Apostille Convention. What this page deliberately does not claim: which post covers Texas, because neither publishes a district; any consular fee, because the tariffs address returned a not-found error; any customs, public health or entry rule, because the revenue service brochure had no readable text; any difference in treatment between ashes and a body, because no Georgian source read mentions either; any airline requirement or routing, because four carrier sites refused; and anything about Texas apostille procedure, because the Texas Secretary of State did not respond. Contact Vargas-London with the town in Georgia and where your relative is now, without sending medical or identity documents through the inquiry form.
