How to find your travel history for the citizenship application
You need every trip from the last 5 years, with dates. If you have a green card, there is no website that hands them to you. These are the places the dates are most likely still recorded, starting with the most reliable.
Facts checked against the sources below on October 14, 2026. A drafting guide, not legal advice; not affiliated with USCIS or CBP.
Start with the official record, in parallel
CBP keeps a record of your entries and exits, but a permanent resident can only get it through a FOIA request, which has no published processing time. File it first, then build your list from the sources below while you wait. (The I-94 website does not work for green card holders; CBP says so directly.)
The sources, roughly in order of reliability
| Source | What it gives you | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|
| Passport stamps, current and expired passports | Dated entries and exits, with the country. USCIS lists “your passport showing entry and exit stamps” as evidence. | Faded or overlapping stamps; land crossings that were never stamped; fewer stamps from 2026 on. |
| Airline accounts and frequent-flyer statements | Flight dates and routes, often for years back. | Flights booked on another person’s account; flights on airlines you no longer use. |
| Booking confirmation emails | Flights, hotels and rental cars with dates. Search your inbox for airline and hotel names, “itinerary”, “boarding pass”. | A booking is a plan, not proof of travel; changed or cancelled trips. |
| Bank and credit card statements | Foreign transactions, ATM withdrawals and foreign-transaction fees mark the days you were abroad. | Online purchases from foreign merchants look like travel and are not. |
| Toll and E-ZPass records | Border bridge and tunnel crossings by car. Berardi suggests them for land trips. | Retention varies by agency. |
| Photos on your phone | Date and often location of every photo taken abroad. | Camera clocks that were never set; photos received from others. |
| Calendars, work travel records, people you visited | Context to place a trip in the right month. | Memory is the weakest source; use it to find records, not to replace them. |
Put it together
- List every trip you can find from any source, even without exact dates.
- For each trip, find the strongest evidence for the departure date and the return date.
- Check that no two trips overlap and that every exit has a return.
- Count days outside the USCIS way: the departure and return days count as days in the United States.
- Order the trips most recent first, as Part 8 asks.
For dates you still cannot pin down, see what practitioners advise about approximate dates.
TripRebuild does steps 1 to 5 for the stamp part of the work: it reads photos of your passport pages into dated entries and exits, pairs them into trips, flags overlaps and missing dates, counts days the USCIS way and exports in Part 8 order. Each date stays linked to the stamp it came from, and nothing is exported until you confirm it.