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Old Apr 3, 2025 | 8:59 am
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Originally Posted by kingstontoon

Except on my most recent trip - Prague the weekend before last, just a normal tourism visit - where the officer both entering and exiting spent well over five minutes looking carefully at every single stamp in my passport (there are lots, I visit the EU for the weekend around once a month) clearly trying to reconcile entry and exit dates to work out whether I was over 90 days. I stick a post-it note in my passport and ask officers to stamp where indicated to try and keep my entry and exit stamps together and in sequence but even so this was clearly a struggle for these officers who eventually gave up and stamped me without so much as a smile. So perhaps something has changed recently, or was I just really unlucky this happened both entering and leaving Prague?
Surely in 2025 their systems must have some record other than physically matching up entry and exit stamps in the passport to determine the 90 in 180 rule? Otherwise people like me with dual passports could easily get around it. I also thought that the systems know that you have multiple passports
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