I-94 Travel History and Other Ways to Find Your Past Trips

Quick answer: if you're not a US citizen or green-card holder, the quickest list of your US trips is the I-94 travel history on CBP's official I-94 website. It shows your US arrival and departure dates and ports for the past 10 years. US citizens and permanent residents must request their records through FOIA instead. For trips elsewhere, rebuild your history from passport stamps, booking emails, airline accounts and Google Maps Timeline.

Visa applications, citizenship forms and tax residency questions all ask the same thing: where have you been, and when? There's no single worldwide record of your travel. Your passport doesn't store one, and the US State Department says its passport records don't hold evidence of travel such as entry and exit stamps.

This guide covers the official records you can request, what each one misses, and how to fill the gaps. We checked every step and limit against CBP, USCIS, UK, Canadian, Australian and EU government sources on 5 October 2026. Immigration rules carry real consequences, so for a pending case, confirm details with the agency or an immigration attorney.

Where your travel history is recorded

How to get your I-94 travel history from CBP

The I-94 is the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) record of a non-citizen's arrival and departure. Its website can also show a list of every recorded entry and exit, which is what most people mean by "US travel history I-94".

1. Open the official site. Go to i94.cbp.dhs.gov, a .gov address run by CBP.
2. Choose "View Travel History". Older guides call this button "Get Travel History".
3. Accept the terms of service. Select "I acknowledge and agree" to continue.
4. Enter your details exactly as on your passport. That means first name, last name, date of birth, passport number and the passport's country of issuance. The "Capture Document" option can fill these in from a photo of your passport's photo page.
5. Review the list. Each line shows an arrival or departure date and the port of entry or exit.
6. Repeat for every passport. The search works one passport number at a time, so run it again for each passport you've used in the past 10 years. Expired passports work.
7. Save it. Print the page or save it as a PDF from your browser, and note the date you ran the search.

The site's separate "Get most recent I-94" option shows only your latest I-94 record, not your history. According to CBP's I-94 FAQ, earlier I-94 records can't be retrieved there.

What the I-94 travel history doesn't show

The tool is useful, but CBP is clear about its limits. Its FAQ says the travel history "is not an official record for legal purposes".

• US citizens and green-card holders can't use it. CBP sends them to a FOIA request instead.
• Only 10 years. At launch in 2014 the history covered five years, which is why many older guides still say "five years". USA.gov and CBP now both say 10.
• Some travel is often missing. CBP lists most land border arrivals and departures, closed-loop cruises, airline reservation updates and I-94s issued by USCIS. Land departures into Mexico can also be missing.
• Departures can go unrecorded. When you leave by air, the airline reports your departure. When you leave by land or sea, it may not be recorded automatically. A departure can also be missed if you left on a different passport or your name was spelled differently.
• One passport at a time. If you changed passports, you need one search per passport.

If a trip you know you took is missing, use the other sources in this guide to document it.

How to fix a wrong or missing record

• CBP issued the wrong I-94. Contact a CBP Deferred Inspection office within 30 days of admission, or ask through the CBP Information Center.
• USCIS issued the I-94. Contact USCIS, not CBP.
• Your travel history is wrong. File a correction with the CBP Information Center, choosing "I-94/Traveler Compliance" and then "Issue with my I-94/Travel History". Another route is DHS TRIP, the traveler redress program. CBP's FAQ says to pick one route, because filing both may delay the result.

Either way, include evidence: boarding passes, passport stamps or tickets that show the trip CBP missed.

Older trips and US citizens: request your records with FOIA

A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to CBP is the way to get records older than 10 years, or any records at all if you're a US citizen or permanent resident. CBP lists "your own records of international travel to/from the U.S." among the records you can request.

• Where to file. Since 22 January 2026, CBP accepts requests only through its SecureRelease portal or FOIA.gov, not by mail, fax or email (CBP FOIA).
• What to include. Your full name, address and date of birth, plus a signed Certification of Identity form or a signed perjury statement. Ask for records, not questions; CBP doesn't process requests written as questions.
• How far back. CBP has no entry and exit records from before 1982.
• Cost. CBP's FOIA FAQ says there is no fee to file. Fees can apply to very large requests, such as copies past 100 pages or more than two hours of searching.
• Timing. The FOIA statute gives agencies 20 working days to decide on a request, but answers can take longer. File well before any application deadline.

Can you check your passport travel history?

Not as a single record. A passport doesn't contain a trip log, and the State Department's passport records system notice says it "does not maintain evidence of travel such as entrance/exit stamps, visas, or residence permits" (Federal Register). When people search for their passport travel history, they usually need one of two things.

• The stamps in your passports. Go page by page through your current and expired passports and note each stamp's country and date. Keep old passports if you might apply for a visa or citizenship later.
• Government entry and exit records. That means the I-94 or a FOIA request for the US, plus the Canadian, Australian and UK requests below.

Stamps are becoming a weaker record. Europe's Entry/Exit System (EES) began on 12 October 2025 and, since 10 April 2026, replaces passport stamping for non-EU short-stay travelers in 29 European countries, according to the European Commission. Your entries and exits there are now recorded electronically rather than stamped, so you'll need your own records to list them on a form.

Travel records from Canada, Australia and the UK

• Canada. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) keeps a Travel History Report of your entries to and exits from Canada for 15 years. Request it online through the Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) system. It's free for your own records and can take up to 30 days. Exit records are newer: all land travelers from July 2019 and commercial air travelers from June 2020. If you're applying for Canadian citizenship, you don't need to request it; Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) collects it for you.
• Australia. The Department of Home Affairs releases International Movement Records from 1981 onward. They show Australian arrival and departure dates, passport numbers, ports and flight numbers, but not which countries you went to. One request covers all your passports.
• United Kingdom. You can request the personal information UK Visas and Immigration holds about you. It's free, the answer comes within a month of a complete request, and a basic request covers digital records since 2000, including immigration history, landing cards and visa applications. The page doesn't promise a full list of border crossings.

Rebuild the rest from your own records

Official records cover borders, not where you went in between. To fill in countries, cities and dates, use your own records.

Search your email for booking confirmations

Flight, hotel and rail confirmations are the best evidence most travelers have. In Gmail, combine search operators to pull them up one year at a time:

• One year of confirmations: subject:(itinerary OR "e-ticket" OR "booking confirmation") after:2019/01/01 before:2020/01/01
• Boarding passes and e-tickets sent as PDFs: has:attachment filename:pdf "boarding pass"
• One airline or hotel group: from:(united.com OR marriott.com), swapping in the companies you actually used

Save each confirmation as a PDF in a folder per year. For a visa form, you need the dates you entered and left each country, so note the outbound and return flights for each trip.

Check airline and hotel accounts

Frequent flyer and hotel loyalty accounts list past stays and flights, though how far back they go varies by program. Trip apps you used, such as TripIt, also keep past trips; if you relied on TripCase, see what happened after the TripCase shutdown. Card statements help too, because foreign-currency transactions put you in a country on a given date.

Use Google Maps Timeline, if it was on

Google Maps Timeline records places you visited only if you turned it on. It now lives on your phone, not on the web. Google's Timeline help page says "Timeline is not available for Maps on your computer".

• Open it. In the Google Maps app on Android or iPhone, tap your profile picture, then "Your Timeline".
• Know the limits. Timeline keeps data according to your auto-delete setting. An optional encrypted backup lets you restore it on a new phone. If you didn't move your old web Timeline to your phone before Google's deadline, Google warned that some or all of it could be lost.
• Use it as a memory aid. Location history can be wrong or incomplete. Confirm dates with tickets or stamps before you put them on an official form.

Photos help too. The dates and locations on your phone's photos often show which city you were in on a given day.

What visa and immigration forms ask for

Before you start digging, check exactly what your form wants. The period and detail differ a lot.

GOV.UK also warns that a UK visa may be cancelled if your travel history shows you're repeatedly living in the UK for extended periods. Consistent, accurate dates matter. If two records disagree, use the official one, or explain the difference.

Keep a travel record from now on

Rebuilding ten years of trips is slow. It's much easier to keep the record as you travel, so the next form takes minutes.

TripCache, our trip organizer app, keeps every trip you add in a Travel History you can filter by personal or business trips and by date. You can export it for free on the Basic plan:

1. Open the Me tab and choose Export Data.
2. Pick Visa summary (the Visa / Immigration Summary) or Travel history.
3. Choose PDF for a readable document or CSV for a spreadsheet.
4. Filter by date range and by personal or business trips, then share or save the file.

The PDF lists each trip with its dates and destination, then the flights (airline, flight number, route, departure and arrival times), stays and other bookings in that trip. The visa summary leaves prices out by default. The same screen builds expense reports, as our business travel expense reporting guide explains.

To back-fill past trips, add them by hand, scan a boarding-pass barcode, or import past flights from a CSV file. With TripCache Pro, you can also forward booking confirmations to a personal import address and review the trip it creates.

To be clear about the limits: TripCache only knows the trips you store in it. It doesn't retrieve I-94, FOIA or any other government record, and its export isn't an official document. Use it to fill in forms quickly, and check the dates against your I-94 history or stamps when it matters.

If you're also keeping passport and visa copies with your trips, read our guide to the best travel document organizer app. For booking emails you still need to sort, see how to organize travel confirmation emails.

Frequently asked questions

What US document shows your travel history?

For visitors and other non-citizens, it is the I-94 travel history on CBP's I-94 website. It lists US arrival and departure dates and ports for the past 10 years. US citizens and green-card holders cannot use that tool and must request their entry and exit records from CBP through a FOIA request.

How far back does I-94 travel history go?

The I-94 website shows 10 years of arrivals and departures. When CBP launched the feature in 2014 it covered five years, which is why some older guides still say five. For older trips, a FOIA request to CBP can reach records from 1982 onward.

Can US citizens check their travel history online?

No. CBP's I-94 FAQ says US citizens and lawful permanent residents cannot retrieve their travel history on the I-94 website. They need to file a FOIA request with CBP through the SecureRelease portal or FOIA.gov. Filing is free, but allow several weeks before any deadline.

Is the I-94 travel history an official record?

No. CBP describes it as a helpful tool that is not an official record for legal purposes. It can also miss land border crossings and some departures. For an immigration case, a FOIA response from CBP is the stronger record, supported by stamps and tickets.

How do I find travel history from an old passport?

Run the I-94 travel history search again with the old passport number; CBP says expired passports work for the past 10 years. Then check the stamps in the old passport itself. If you no longer have the passport number, CBP points you to a FOIA request or its information center.

Does Google Maps keep a history of where I have traveled?

Only if Timeline was turned on. Timeline is now stored on your phone and is not available in Google Maps on a computer. Open it in the Google Maps app from your profile picture, then Your Timeline. Older web Timeline data that was not moved to your phone may be gone.

How long does a CBP FOIA request for travel records take?

The FOIA law gives agencies 20 working days to decide on a request, but answers can take longer. File as early as you can, include a signed identity certification, and ask for your records of international travel to and from the US rather than asking a question.

How do I list my travel history for a UK visa application?

Gather the dates you entered and left each country over the past 10 years. Use your I-94 history or FOIA records for US trips, passport stamps, booking emails and airline accounts for the rest. Write each trip with its country, purpose and dates, and keep the evidence in case you are asked.