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Visa rules overview for travel days.

This visa rules overview puts the rules that decide how long you may stay side by side: the shared Schengen window, the tax threshold that follows you home, and the country rules for Asia and North America. Every entry in this visa rules overview names the authority it draws on, so you can check the source rather than take our word for it. None of it replaces advice for your own passport and purpose of travel.

Europe

Visa rules overview: Europe and Schengen

Free tool

Schengen 90/180-day calculator

Enter your stays and see days used and days left, calculated locally in your browser.

Schengen calculator
Schengen Area

The 90/180-day rule in the Schengen Area

One shared allowance across 26 states, both boundary days counted, and a window that moves.

90/180-day rule
Published

The 183-day threshold

Why a day total can be a signal without deciding tax residence on its own.

183-day threshold

Asia

Visa rules overview: Asia has no shared window

Japan · Thailand · Indonesia

Travel days in Asia

Three countries, three ways of counting, with nothing carried over between them.

Travel days in Asia
Japan

Visa-free travel and permitted stay

Ninety days for most nationalities, no paid work, and a passport you carry at all times.

Travel days in Japan
Thailand

Entry and extensions

Sixty days visa-free, one extension of 30, and only two overland entries a year.

Travel days in Thailand
Indonesia · Bali

e-VOA and travel days

Thirty days plus one extension of 30, applied for online before the permit expires.

Travel days in Bali

Americas

Keep the USA and Canada separate

USA

ESTA and I-94

Why the I-94 departure date governs and the validity of your ESTA does not.

Travel days in the USA
Canada

eTA and permitted stay

Six months is the usual allowance, but the officer at the border sets the date.

Travel days in Canada