Free travel tool
Visa validity calculator
Find out exactly when your ESTA, ETIAS, UK ETA, eTA or e-Visa expires, whether your passport is the real limit, and the latest date you can legally stay on a single entry. Add a calendar reminder so a lapsed authorization never strands you at the gate.
Pick your authorization
Valid for 2 years from approval (or until your passport expires, whichever is first). Multiple entries, each stay up to 90 days under the Visa Waiver Program.
Apply at least 72 hours before travel. A new passport requires a new ESTA.
When the authorization was granted.
ESTA, ETIAS and the UK ETA expire with your passport.
To see your latest legal departure date.
Your authorization is valid until
November 1, 2028
730 days left
- Program clock expiry
- November 1, 2028
- Entries
- multiple
- Max stay per visit
- 90 days
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Validity at a glance: ESTA vs ETIAS vs the UK ETA
The headline numbers travellers mix up most, side by side. "Validity" is how long the document lasts; "max stay" is how long a single visit can be.
| Authorization | Region | Validity | Max stay | Entries | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESTA (United States) | United States | 2 years from issue (or passport) | 90 days | multiple | active |
| ETIAS (Schengen Europe) | Schengen Area | 3 years from issue (or passport) | 90 days (rolling 90/180) | multiple | launching |
| UK ETA | United Kingdom | 2 years from issue (or passport) | 180 days | multiple | active |
| eTA (Canada) | Canada | 5 years from issue (or passport) | 180 days | multiple | active |
| Typical e-Visa (single 30-day) | Varies | 30 days from issue | 30 days | single | active |
| Visa on arrival (30-day) | Varies | 30 days from issue | 30 days | single | active |
Validity and stay are two different clocks
Almost every overstay starts with one confusion: people read "valid for two years" and assume they can stay for two years. They cannot. A travel authorization runs on two separate clocks. The first is validity, the period during which the document lets you show up at the border and ask to be admitted. The second is permitted stay, the number of days a single admission buys you once you are inside. An ESTA is valid for two years but caps each visit at 90 days. The UK ETA is valid for two years but allows visits of up to six months. ETIAS, when it launches, will be valid for three years but will still be tied to the Schengen 90-in-180 rule. Knowing which clock you are looking at is the whole game, and it is why this tool always shows both numbers rather than a single reassuring date.
Why your passport quietly shortens everything
ESTA, ETIAS and the UK ETA are all electronically bound to one specific passport. They cannot outlive the document they are attached to. If your passport expires in fourteen months, a two-year ESTA approved today is effectively a fourteen-month ESTA. The moment you renew the passport, the old authorization stops working, even if its own clock had time left, because the passport number on file no longer matches. This catches a surprising number of travellers who renew a passport mid-trip-cycle and assume their still-current ESTA carries over. It does not. Enter your passport expiry above and the calculator takes the earlier of the two dates, then flags when the passport is the real limit so you can renew and re-apply with enough lead time.
The 2026 EES and ETIAS wave: what is actually changing
Europe is rolling out two linked systems that change how short stays are tracked. The Entry/Exit System (EES) replaces manual passport stamping with biometric records of every entry and exit at Schengen borders, which means the 90-in-180 count becomes automatic and exact rather than something an officer eyeballs from ink stamps. ETIAS, the visa-waiver authorization that travel-exempt visitors will need, is expected to follow in the last quarter of 2026. Crucially, ETIAS is an authorization, not a longer stay: it does not extend the 90-day limit, it simply pre-screens you before you travel. If your trips routinely brush up against the 90-day cap, the validity question (does my ETIAS still work?) and the stay question (have I used up my 90 days?) become two things you have to track separately. This tool handles the first; the Schengen 90/180 calculator handles the second.
How the dates are counted
The arithmetic follows the same convention border authorities use. For a fixed-term validity, the document is good from the issue date through the day before the matching anniversary, so a two-year ESTA approved on a given date lasts until the day before that date two years later. For a permitted stay, both the day you arrive and the day you leave count as days of presence: a 90-day stay starting on the first of a month does not run to the end of the third month, it ends on day 90 inclusive of arrival. The must-leave-by date the calculator shows is the last full day you may remain, not the day you have to be gone by. If you need to convert that local departure deadline into your home timezone for a flight, the time zone converter lines the two up, and the days-between tool is handy for sanity-checking any stay length by hand.
A note on visa-on-arrival and e-Visa patterns
Beyond the big three authorizations, most of the world runs on e-Visas and visa-on-arrival stamps, and their terms vary enormously by country and by your nationality. The two generic patterns in the picker, a single-entry 30-day e-Visa and a 30-day visa-on-arrival, exist to model the most common shape: an authorization that is valid for a short window from issue and grants one stay of the same rough length. Use them as a starting estimate, then confirm the exact validity and stay for your specific route on the issuing country's official portal, because a calculator cannot know the dozens of bilateral exceptions that apply to any one passport.
Frequently asked questions
- How long is an ESTA valid for?
- An approved ESTA is valid for two years from the date of approval, or until your passport expires, whichever comes first. Within that window you can make multiple trips to the United States, each up to 90 days under the Visa Waiver Program. If you get a new passport, your old ESTA stops working and you must apply again.
- How long will ETIAS be valid once it launches?
- ETIAS is expected to be valid for three years from approval, or until your passport expires, whichever is sooner. It allows multiple entries, but the time you can actually spend in the Schengen Area is still governed by the 90-days-in-any-180-days rule, not 90 days per visit. ETIAS is expected to start in the last quarter of 2026 after the Entry/Exit System goes live.
- Does my visa or travel authorization expire when my passport does?
- For ESTA, ETIAS and the UK ETA, yes. These authorizations are electronically linked to a specific passport, so they cannot outlive it. If your passport expires in 14 months but your ESTA would otherwise run for two years, the ESTA effectively expires in 14 months. This calculator takes the earlier of the two dates when you enter a passport expiry.
- What is the difference between visa validity and permitted stay?
- Validity is how long the document itself remains usable, the window in which you are allowed to arrive. Permitted stay is how many days a single entry lets you remain in the country. A two-year ESTA does not mean two years of presence: each visit is capped at 90 days. This tool shows both numbers so you do not confuse them.
- When should I apply for ESTA or ETIAS before travelling?
- Apply well ahead of departure. CBP recommends applying for an ESTA at least 72 hours before travel, and ETIAS is expected to advise applying several days in advance. Most approvals are near-instant, but a small share are flagged for manual review that can take days, so do not leave it to the airport.