On February 12, 2018, Saakashvili was detained in one of the Kiev restaurants by people in camouflage uniform with the emblems of the border guard service.

In July 2017, when he was in the United States, the president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, issued a decree on the loss of his citizenship on the grounds of revealing untrue data submitted to the State Migration Service of Ukraine by Mikhail Saakashvili.

In January 2018, a court in Tbilisi in absentia sentenced Saakashvili to three years in prison for abuse of power during his tenure as President of Georgia.

The Migration Service of Ukraine denied Saakashvili the granting of refugee status. This decision he appealed to the administrative court.

Saakashvili asked the court to acknowledge the unlawful refusal of the State Dispute Resolution Service to consider the complaint and the communication about the refusal to issue documents for resolving the issue of recognizing the politician within a period of time determined by law as a refugee or a person in need of additional protection. But the court refused to satisfy him.

On February 5, the Kyiv Administrative Court of Appeal rejected Saakashvili's appeal.

On February 5, 2018, the panel of judges of the Kyiv Administrative Court of Appeal, chaired by Judge Andrei Korotkov, reviewed case No. 826/14052/17 on appeal appeals. The Office of the State Customs Service of Ukraine in the Kiev region and representative Mikheil Saakashvili. to the decision of the District Administrative Court. Kiev on January 3, 2018.

The case concerned the refusal to issue documents for resolving the issue of recognizing the plaintiff as a person, requires additional protection. The appeal of the representative of Saakashvili M.N. contains a requirement to require the Office of HMS in the Kiev region to decide on the recognition of Mikheil Saakashvili. a person who requires additional protection. At the same time, in the appeal of the Office of the HMS in the Kiev region, there was talk of a change in the reasoning of the decision of the court of first instance.

The reasoning of the decision of the CAAS states that the court of first instance correctly established that between July 2017 and September 10, 2017 Saakashvili was in the territory of the third safe countries (Poland, the US, Switzerland, Hungary, Germany) where he had the opportunity to apply for international protection . However, he did not. The explanations given during the interview on the reasons for non-receipt only further indicate the intention of the plaintiff to legalize on the territory of Ukraine at the time of appeal against the decision to terminate citizenship.

The contested order "On refusal to issue documents for resolving the issue of recognizing as a refugee or a person who requires additional protection of a stateless person Mikheil Saakashvili" dated 01.11.2017 No. 99 was pronounced by the defendant reasonably and within the limits of his powers. The actions of the Department of VHI in the Kiev region do not contradict either the norms of international law or the norms of the current legislation of Ukraine.

With regard to the appeal of the Office of the HMS in the Kiev region, the panel of judges of the Kyiv AAS came to the conclusion: the reasoning part of the first instance court's decision complies with all the requirements stipulated in Part 4 of Art. 246 CAS of Ukraine. So, the arguments of the Department of HMS in the Kiev region are not justified.

The Collegium of Judges passed a resolution to leave both appeals without satisfaction, and the decision of the first instance court was unchanged.

As a result, the decision to refuse to satisfy the claim entered into force.

Defense policy intends to file a cassation appeal to the Supreme Court of Ukraine.

On February 9, 2018, the Minister of Justice of Ukraine Pavel Petrenko stated that there are no legal barriers to the extradition of Saakashvili to Georgia.

Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko said that the expulsion of Saakashvili to Poland, where he arrived in September in 2017, is one of the options for the development of events.

On February 12, Saakashvili did not go to the Kiev prosecutor's office to give explanations in the context of an extradition investigation conducted against him.