Canadian Snowbirds and the US 183-Day Rule: The Formula, Form 8840 and the Real Limits (2026)
The US counts your winters with a three-year weighted formula, not a simple 183 days. The math, the 120-day rule of thumb, Form 8840, and what to track.
Everything you need to know about Schengen visa rules, the 90/180 day rule, and travel regulations in Europe.
The US counts your winters with a three-year weighted formula, not a simple 183 days. The math, the 120-day rule of thumb, Form 8840, and what to track.
Two routes to the same exclusion with opposite philosophies: one counts days, one weighs your life. How to choose, and when people switch between them.
To exclude foreign earned income, Americans abroad must prove 330 full foreign days in a 12-month window. The IRS's own words, the travel-day traps, and how to count.
The remittance basis is gone and the leavers wave is real. What actually determines whether you have left for tax purposes, and the day counts that prove it.
The honest answer runs from 15 to 182 days depending on your ties. The SRT's automatic tests and ties bands, explained with the day counts that decide them.
90 days in any 180 visa-free under the EES, the D7 and digital nomad visa routes, and the honest position on Portugal's tax regimes after NHR closed.
90 days in any 180 visa-free, no British equivalent of the US bilateral deal, and the long-stay visitor visa French second-home owners use. Sourced and current.
90 days in any 180 visa-free, counted automatically by the EES, and the long-stay routes Spanish second-home owners actually use. Plus the 183-day tax trap.
Since Brexit, UK passport holders get 90 days in any 180 across the whole Schengen area, and the EES now counts them automatically. How the rule really works.
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