Since April 2026 every Schengen border crossing is a database row, not a stamp. When the exit row is missing, the system counts you as still inside — and, once your 90 days run out, as an overstayer. Here is how to find out, how to get it fixed, and why your own log matters more than it used to.
The EES has been running at every external border of the Schengen countries since 10 April 2026. For a non-EU visitor on a short stay it records each entry and each exit — date, time, crossing point — alongside a facial image and fingerprints in a file that is kept for three years after your last exit. The passport stamp is gone; the record is the stamp.
The 90/180 rule itself did not change. What changed is who does the counting. The officer used to look at stamps and do arithmetic; now the screen shows a computed number of remaining days, and the officer trusts the screen.
Nothing — until your authorised stay runs out. Then the system automatically lists every file that has an entry and no exit as an overstay and hands that list to the national authorities. In practice that means a much longer conversation at your next entry, a refused entry in the worst case, and a file that is now kept five years from the day your stay expired instead of three from your exit.
The remaining-days figure on the officer's screen is also wrong, because the system thinks you have been spending days the whole time you were home.
The EU runs a self-service check: Check how long you can stay. You enter your passport type, number and issuing country; it answers OK or NOT OK and tells you how many days you may still stay. Two limits:
Use it as a smoke test. If it reports fewer days than your own count — or says NOT OK while you are sitting at home outside Schengen — an exit is probably missing.
You have a right of access and rectification under Article 52 of the EES Regulation. The request goes to the competent border or migration authority — or its data protection officer — of any participating state; the sensible choice is the one whose border you crossed. eu-LISA publishes the list of competent authorities. They have 45 days to reply.
Ask for access and rectification in the same letter; there is no need to wait for the access reply first. Say exactly which crossing is in dispute — date, place, direction — and what the record should say. Attach a copy of your passport page and evidence of the departure:
Send only what the authority asks for, and never paste passport details into a general website contact form.
EES is the authority's record, and you have no live view of it. The traveller who can say "I left Lisbon on 14 March, TAP 1364, here is the boarding pass" gets the correction; the one who says "I think it was mid-March" gets a follow-up question and another 45 days.
This is what Daysabroad is for. It logs each border crossing on your iPhone as it happens — no servers involved — you attach the boarding pass to the stay, and a PDF report for any period lists every stay with its dates. An app log is not proof on its own, but it tells you which day to look for and gives the authority a timeline to check against.
It also keeps counting what the official tool will not: the stays that began before April 2026. Your 90/180 stays right even on the day the database is wrong.
No. The limit is still 90 days in any rolling 180-day window. What changed is the record: instead of stamps and arithmetic at the desk, the border reads a computed number of remaining days from the system.
Not the individual crossings. The official tool only answers OK / NOT OK and tells you how many days you may still stay. To see the actual records you file a right-of-access request under Article 52 with a national authority.
Three years from the date of your exit record. If there is no exit record, five years from the day your authorised stay expired.
No. eu-LISA runs the infrastructure and does not access or amend the data. Requests go to the competent border or migration authority of a participating state, which has 45 days to reply.
Daysabroad records every crossing automatically, attaches your boarding passes to the stay, and exports a dated PDF timeline when someone asks for one.
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