For most insurance companies it only stays on your record for 5 years. For employment checks or if you go to the DMV to obtain a copy of your record, I believe in Georgia a DUI/DWI stays on your record for 7 years.
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if it's a youth record it'd gone after 18 but if it's an adult record you can apply to get rid of it after 5 years and that's only if you stay clean for those 5 years.