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Old Apr 12, 2015 | 8:38 am
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wildchartermage
 
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No EU Entry and Exit Stamp in My US Passport?

Hello all!

I went on to a trip to Europe recently. From January 20 to 24, I was in Iceland, where I did get entry and exit stamp on my way to UK.

Then I took Eurostar from London to Brussels on February 3 or 4, and traveled within EU until April 4, when I flew out of Rome, Italy to United States (I'm an American citizen).

Looking through my passport, I saw that I have NO entry AND NO exit stamp (but did get a stamp of return to United States from the US Border Control).

My passport has a lot of stamps from traveling around Europe two years ago and then to China...so it's not like a completely brand-new passport. It seems that the border guards pretty much just took a look at the passport and waved me through...can't recall now if they took a moment to scan the passport or not.

1) Does that mean there were no record of me spending about 59 days in EU (Belgium to Italy)?

If I flew back to EU right now, would they have any record of my time in EU? Would it be like I have "new" 90 days?

2) I can't recall right now, but does EU airports scan passports to record your entry and exit?

Also, just in case anyone is interested, I came across this floating in the cyberspace: http://www.overlanddiaries.com/?tag=schengen-zone

Thanks!

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