90 day stamps

Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:39pm

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Hi all,

This may be an old topic but was wondering is the only way they can check how many days you have stayed within the 90 days is the stamps on your passport or does the scan check that and if so why would they need to stamp your passport, if its held in computer,the reason I am asking is the wife has just got a new passport so want to know has her clock reset until they bring in the new entry requirements later this year whereby everything will be computerised.Thanks

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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:17pm

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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:17pm

The stamp is both for your info so you can check the date you arrived and for a quick check by the border staff. It will be logged on their system as well.

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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:36pm

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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:36pm

The border force staff have never checked stamps in my passport, they just look for a empty gap to enter the latest stamp.

Advance Passenger Information is sent for all air and sea passengers, but whether BF look at it or not is debatable but it is probably best to assume that they do and they keep a record of your days in the schengen zone.

The new EU entry system has been put back to next year.

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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:39pm

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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:39pm

aitchc1401 wrote on Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:36pm:
The border force staff have never checked stamps in my passport, they just look for a empty gap to enter the latest stamp.
Advance Passenger Information is sent for all air and sea passengers, but whether BF look at it or not is debatable but it is probably best to assume that they do and they keep a record of your days in the schengen zone....

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The new EU entry system has been put back to next year.
Rgds,
Aitch.

Thanks for replies

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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:53pm

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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:53pm

On looking around, this question gets asked many times. In every case the answer is they don't look at the stamps (many of which are unreadable anyway) but scan the passport which doesn't just rely on the passport number. Your new passport, according to one border guard official, is linked to your old one so the computer would tell them when it was scanned. That's advice given to other nationalities as well as those from UK.

It's pointed out, many times from people who know, that the 90 in 180 relates to the person and not the passport.

Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:51am

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Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:51am

marcliff wrote on Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:53pm:
On looking around, this question gets asked many times. In every case the answer is they don't look at the stamps (many of which are unreadable anyway) but scan the passport which doesn't just rely on the passport number. Your new passport, according to one border guard official, is linked to you...

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...r old one so the computer would tell them when it was scanned. That's advice given to other nationalities as well as those from UK.
It's pointed out, many times from people who know, that the 90 in 180 relates to the person and not the passport.

As it stands at the minute, the scanning of the passport does not provide any information to Spanish border force around immigration.