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Guides and updates on counting your days, residency rules, and life across borders
Can You Prove Where You Were Eighteen Months Ago?
Questions about where you spent your days tend to arrive long after the days themselves. What decides how well you can answer is not your memory but which records you kept, and whether they still agree with each other.
The Day You Fly Counts in Both Countries
Two countries can each count your travel day as a day of presence, and neither of them is wrong to do it. What changes the total is not the flight, it is which counting rule each side happens to use.
Stay Long Enough and a Country Decides You Live There
Spend around 183 days somewhere and it can start treating you as a resident. Every country uses roughly that number and almost none of them count towards it the same way, which is how a well travelled year ends up with 391 days in it.

