What if I cannot remember every trip?

Give the dates you can support with records, such as booking emails, bank statements showing spending abroad, or passport stamps. Most forms ask you to be as accurate as you can and to explain any gaps.

Usually yes. Leaving the country for part of a day is a trip abroad on most forms, and US citizenship asks for every trip of more than 24 hours. Check the guidance notes for the form you are filling in.

Can TripStow make the list for me?

Yes. Forward your booking emails to TripStow, or import your history from TripIt, Flighty or myFlightradar24, and the Travel history page lists every trip abroad with dates and days, ready to copy into a form or download as a spreadsheet. It also counts your Schengen days.

Is TripStow's list official?

No. It is built from your bookings, so trips you took without a booking in TripStow will not show. Check it against your passport before you submit a form. This page is a guide, not immigration advice.

Guide

How to list your travel history for a visa form

Visa, settlement and citizenship forms ask for every trip abroad over the last 5 or 10 years, with dates. Here is what the main forms ask for, how to build the list without guessing, and a free way to have it made from your bookings.

What the forms ask for

United Kingdom

Visit visa application: Your travel history over the last 10 years: the countries you visited, when, and why.
Citizenship (naturalisation): Every absence from the UK in the 5-year qualifying period. As a rule, no more than 450 days away in total, and no more than 90 in the last 12 months. Only whole days outside the UK count.
Settlement (indefinite leave to remain): Absences during the qualifying period. Most routes allow no more than 180 days away in any 12 months.

United States

Visitor visa (DS-160): Whether you have travelled to any other countries in the last 5 years, and which ones.
Citizenship (N-400): Every trip outside the US of 24 hours or more in the last 5 years (3 for some spouses of US citizens), with the dates you left and came back.

Canada

Citizenship: Your absences from Canada in the last 5 years. You need to have been physically present for at least 1,095 days in that time.

Australia

Citizenship by conferral: Your travel in the residence period: as a rule, no more than 12 months away in the last 4 years, and no more than 90 days in the last year.

Rules and forms change. Always read the guidance for the form you are filling in on the official government website. Checked November 2026.

How to build the list

1
Start from your bookings, not your memory
Search your inbox for confirmation emails from airlines, train companies and hotels for the years the form asks about. Flights give you the dates you left and came back; hotels fill in where you stayed.
2
Check your passport stamps
Stamps confirm the exact entry and exit dates, especially for overland crossings with no booking. Many countries in Europe no longer stamp EU and Schengen border crossings, so bookings are often the better record.
3
Check how the form counts days
Rules differ. The Schengen 90/180 rule counts the day you arrive and the day you leave. UK citizenship counts only whole days spent outside the UK, so the day you leave and the day you come back are not absences. When a form asks for a number of days, read its guidance first.
4
Keep one list and reuse it
Once you have the list, keep it. Visa renewals, settlement and citizenship applications ask for the same history again, usually for a longer period.

Have your travel history made for you

Forward your booking emails to TripStow, or import years of flights in one go. The Travel history page lists every trip abroad with the dates you left and came back, the countries and the days in each, ready to copy into a form or download as a spreadsheet. Free.

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Questions

What if I cannot remember every trip?: Give the dates you can support with records, such as booking emails, bank statements showing spending abroad, or passport stamps. Most forms ask you to be as accurate as you can and to explain any gaps.
Do day trips count?: Usually yes. Leaving the country for part of a day is a trip abroad on most forms, and US citizenship asks for every trip of more than 24 hours. Check the guidance notes for the form you are filling in.
Can TripStow make the list for me?: Yes. Forward your booking emails to TripStow, or import your history from TripIt, Flighty or myFlightradar24, and the Travel history page lists every trip abroad with dates and days, ready to copy into a form or download as a spreadsheet. It also counts your Schengen days.
Is TripStow's list official?: No. It is built from your bookings, so trips you took without a booking in TripStow will not show. Check it against your passport before you submit a form. This page is a guide, not immigration advice.

Heading to Europe? Check the 90/180 day rule with the free Schengen calculator.