Reconstruct your trips abroad for a citizenship or residence application

Official and documentary sources

• Passport stamps – incomplete inside the Schengen area and for e-gates.
• Government travel records – for example, the US CBP I-94 website shows recent arrival/departure history; other countries offer similar requests. Check what your immigration authority accepts.
• Airline bookings and boarding-pass emails – search your mailbox for “booking confirmation”, “e-ticket”, “itinerary”.
• Card statements – foreign transactions show where you were.

Your Google Maps Timeline

If location history was on, your Timeline has the countries you were in day by day. Export it from your phone (and any old Google Takeout files), then open them in Trackmere. The days-per-country report lists, for any date range, the days in each country and which days have no data. Print it or export the day list to Excel and turn consecutive days abroad into trips (first and last day).

Cross-check before you submit

• Days right on a border can be counted for the neighbouring country (simplified borders) – check them.
• Gaps (phone off, history off) must be filled from other sources.
• Use the dates your authority asks for: some count the departure day as abroad, some don't.

This is a practical aid, not immigration advice. The form's instructions and your lawyer or the authority decide what counts.