Name: United States → Abkhazia: visa and length of stay
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Data last checked 25 October 2026

How many days can you stay in Abkhazia?

Short answer

180 days

visa required; counting details below

Continuously per entry: 180 days
How the days are counted: afresh on every entry
Does leaving reset the counter: No — the days keep counting in the same window

You need to arrange the visa in advance. Email an application form and a copy of your passport to the consular department of the Abkhaz Foreign Ministry. An entry permit arrives by return email within 7 working days. You enter with this permit and must collect the visa itself in person in Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia, within 3 working days of arrival. A tourist visa for up to 1 month costs 350 Russian roubles; for up to 6 months, it costs 700. Exception: members of an organised tour group may stay up to 24 hours without a visa.

Source: Entry and permitted-stay rule (mid.apsny.land)

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Abkhazia: days of stay calculator

Count your allowed days in Abkhazia from your entry and exit dates — based on your passport and the counting rule that applies.

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Entry: visa required; permitted stay — 180 days.
Vehicle insurance: insurance is bought at the border.

Worth knowing about the route

Georgia regards Abkhazia as its own territory. Under Georgian law, foreigners may enter it legally only from Georgia, from the town of Zugdidi via the Inguri crossing point (the Abkhaz side is open from 08:00 to 19:00). Georgian law treats entry from Russia through the Psou crossing, by sea or by air as a crime, punishable by a fine or up to 4 years in prison (Article 322¹ of the Criminal Code of Georgia). Neither Georgia nor Abkhazia officially says whether foreigners may cross at Inguri in their own car. Ask the consular department of the Abkhaz Foreign Ministry when you apply for your entry permit.
Entering from Russia (Psou crossing). The Abkhaz Foreign Ministry requires you to register the car at the Psou crossing: temporary registration costs 250 Russian roubles per month. Abkhaz third-party motor insurance is compulsory and is sold at the crossing. Russian OSAGO insurance and the international Green Card are not valid in Abkhazia. The Psou crossing is temporarily closed when there is a threat of drone attacks.

Can you bring your own vehicle?

Maximum term: no data
How the term is counted: no data
Mandatory vehicle insurance: insurance is bought at the border

All import rules for Abkhazia

The same country with other passports

Russia 90 days

Germany 180 days

United Kingdom 180 days

Length-of-stay rules come from several sources. Some are verified by the OpenVan.camp Editorial team against official sources and show a verification date. The rest are extracted from open sources, most often Wikipedia, and are shown with a source link and the date they were retrieved. Vehicle import rules are shown only once verified. The underlying visa requirement matrix is the passport-index-data dataset (MIT licence), updated 17 February 2026.

Reference data, not legal advice. Rules change without notice — check with the consulate or at the border.