The Entry/Exit system  contains personal data records on third-country nationals coming to the territory of the Member States of Schengen area  for a short stay (maximum of 90 days in any 180-day period). The system is available since October 12th, 2025.

As of this date, information about your entries into and exits out of the territory of the Member States, and, if applicable, information on whether you have been refused entry, is registered in the Entry/Exit System.

To this end, your data is collected and processed on behalf of the "ministère de l’Intérieur/Direction générale des étrangers en France". Please see below the contact details. Your personal data is processed for the purposes of border management, preventing irregular immigration and facilitating the management of migration flows. This is required in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2017/2226, specifically Articles 14, 16 to 19 and 23 of Chapter II and Chapter III of the Regulation.

The Entry/Exit System will be progressively rolled out. During this period, your personal data, including your biometric data, might not be collected for the purposes of the Entry/Exit System at all Member State's external borders. If the collection of that information is mandatory and you choose not to provide it, you will be refused entry. During the progressive roll-out, your data will not automatically be added to a list of overstayers. In addition, you will not be able to check how much longer you are authorised to stay using the EES website or equipment available at border crossing points.

You can verify the duration of your authorised stay by using the short stay calculator tool available on the European Commission website.

After the progressive rollout of the Entry/Exit System, your personal data will be processed as otherwise set out in this form

During checks at the external borders of the Member States, the collection of your personal data is mandatory for the examination of entry conditions.The following personal data is collected and recorded :

1. data listed in your travel document
2. biometric data : from your facial image and fingerprints

Data about you is also collected from other sources, depending on your situation :

1. the Visa Information System : data contained in your personal file
2. the European Travel Information and Authorisation System, in particular the status of your travel authorisation and your family member status, if applicable

If you do not provide the requested biometric data for registration, verification or identification in the Entry/Exit System, you will be refused entry at the external borders. of the Schengen Area.

Member States can access your data for the purposes of border management, facilitation of border crossings, immigration, and law enforcement. Europol may also access your data for law enforcement purposes. Under strict conditions, your data may also be transferred to a Member State, a third country or an international organisation listed in Annex I of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 for the purposes of return or law enforcement.

Records of each entry, exit or refusal of entry record are stored for 3 years starting on the date of the entry, exit, refusal of entry record

The individual file containing your personal data is stored for 3 years and one day starting from the date of the last exit record or of the refusal of entry record where is no entry recorded during that period

Where there is no exit record, your data are stored for 5 years starting on the date of the expiration of your authorised stay

If you are subject to visa requirement, your fingerprint will not be stored in the Entry/Exit system as they are already stored in the Visa Information System.

You have the right to receive from the border guard information on the maximum remaining duration of your authorised stay on the territory of the Member States.

You can also consult the Travel to Europe website from European union or, where available, the equipment installed at borders to self verify your remaining authorised stay.

If you overstay the period of your authorised stay, your data will be automatically added to a list of identified persons (a list of overstayers).

The list can be accessed by competent national authorities. If you are on this list of overstayers, the competent authorities of Member States can refuse the issuance of a visa or of an ETIAS travel authorisation. However, if you can provide credible evidence to the competent authorities that you exceeded the authorised duration of your stay due to unforeseeable and serious events, your personal data can be rectified or completed in the Entry/Exit System and you can be removed from the list of overstayers.

You have the following rights :

• to request from the controller access to data relating to you
• to request that inaccurate or incomplete data relating to you is rectified or completed
• to request that unlawfully processed personal data that concerns you is erased or that the processing thereof is restricted

If you want to exercise any of these rights, you must contact the data controller or data protection officer.

You can contact the data controller by letter :

Direction générale des étrangers en France

Ministère de l’Intérieur

Place Beauvau

75008 PARIS - France

You can contact the data protection officer by letter :

Le Délégué ministériel à la protection des données

Ministère de l’Intérieur

Place Beauvau

75008 PARIS - France

Supervisory authority of France which is in charge of processing your data (e.g. if you allege that they have recorded your data incorrectly ) :

Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL)

3 Place de Fontenoy

TSA 80715

75334 PARIS CEDEX 07 - France

European Data Protection Supervisor for matters of data processing by European Agencies :

European data protection supervisor (EDPS)

Rue Wiertz 60

1047 Bruxelles - Belgique

Phone number : + 32 2 283 19 00

https://edps.europa.eu/_fr