What Is Flamingo Compliance? Tax Residency & Visa Tracking App

How many days have you spent in the UK this year? How about in the Schengen Area in the last 180? Under your residence permit's absence limit? For anyone living across borders, these numbers decide real outcomes, and almost nobody can answer them off the top of their head.

Flamingo Compliance automatically records your physical presence across countries, US states, and selected cities, then measures those days against tax residency, domicile, permanent residency, and visa thresholds, warning you as limits approach..

The app combines travel-history tracking with configurable tax residency, domicile, permanent residency, city tax, Schengen, and custom country or state trackers.

Take a two-week trip in spring. Those same days can push you towards a tax residency threshold in one country, add to a Schengen count that is already past halfway, and eat into the maximum absence allowed under a residence permit somewhere else. Flamingo Compliance does not just log the trip. It measures each of those limits as you go and warns you before any of them is breached.

Flamingo Compliance at a Glance

◾ Official product name: Flamingo Compliance
◾ Product category: Tax residency and visa compliance tracking
◾ Primary purpose: Tracking physical presence and monitoring tax residency, domicile, visa, and immigration-related day requirements
◾ Locations tracked: Countries, US states, and selected cities
◾ Tracking units: Days and nights, depending on the tracker and rule being monitored
◾ Reporting: Exportable travel history and residency data
◾ Document storage: Passports, permits, visas, and supporting proof of presence can be stored in the app
◾ Privacy: Data is stored only on the user's device unless iCloud Sync is enabled

What Does Flamingo Compliance Track?

Flamingo Compliance records travel history and uses that information across a set of specialised trackers.

Depending on the user's situation, Flamingo Compliance can be used to monitor:

◾ tax residency;
◾ domicile;
◾ presence in individual countries;
◾ presence in US states;
◾ presence in selected cities;
◾ permanent residency requirements;
◾ long-term visa requirements;
◾ Schengen Area 90/180-day compliance;
◾ custom presence or absence requirements.

The purpose of these trackers is to give frequent international travellers a continuously updated record of where they have been and how their travel relates to the limits and requirements they are monitoring.

Travel History Tracking

At the foundation of Flamingo Compliance is a record of the user's travel history.

The app can track time spent across countries, US states, and supported cities. Dedicated travel-history trackers allow globally mobile individuals to review places they have visited and the time associated with those visits.

This travel history can then be used by the user's tax residency, domicile, immigration, Schengen, and custom trackers.

Keeping the underlying travel record separate from the legal or tax rule being monitored is important: the same trip may be relevant to several different trackers.

Tax Residency and Domicile Trackers

Flamingo Compliance includes separate Tax Residency and Domicile trackers.

◾The Tax Residency Tracker is used to monitor physical presence connected with national or US state tax residency over a rolling or a fixed multi-year period.

◾ The Domicile Tracker records physical presence in the jurisdiction connected to your long-term legal home, or domicile. Domicile can affect where you pay certain taxes, vote, and claim benefits, and it often turns on where you spend your time.

Both trackers organise travel data according to the configured tax year and allow people to review previous and current periods. This matters because tax-residency tracking does not always follow a January-to-December calendar year. You can configure the appropriate tax-year start date for the tracker you are monitoring.

The app can also be set up for specific residency tests and periods. For the UK Statutory Residence Test (SRT), you can track your UK presence days against the day-count thresholds relevant to your circumstances and get warnings as you approach them. For the US Substantial Presence Test (SPT), the app applies the test's fractional three-year calculation, combining this year's days with a proportion of the previous two, and warns you before the threshold is reached.

Recent UK reforms have prompted many long-term UK residents to reconsider how much time they spend in the country. Flamingo Compliance helps by tracking UK presence days against the thresholds you set, and by keeping a dated record of your movements that you and your adviser can review.

Flamingo Compliance also warns you in real time as you approach a threshold, and offers predictive tips on how many more days you can stay or when you need to leave to stay within your limits.

US City Tax Residency Tracking

Some tax-residency questions exist below the country and state level.

Flamingo Compliance includes a City Tax Residency Tracker for monitoring physical presence in cities with their own residency-related tax rules, such as New York City.

City visits can be monitored separately from the main country and state timeline.

You can identify which days are relevant to the city-level residency requirement you are tracking and monitor those days within the appropriate tax year.

This can be useful for commuters, remote workers, frequent business travellers, and people who divide their time between several homes or work locations.

Permanent Residency & Long-Term Visa Tracker

Flamingo Compliance also includes a Permanent Residency Tracker for immigration statuses that have minimum-presence or maximum-absence requirements.

A single tracker can contain multiple residency requirements. For example, a person may need to:

◾ spend a minimum number of days in a country during a defined period;
◾ remain outside the country for no more than a specified number of days;
◾ monitor several presence and absence requirements at the same time.

Flamingo Compliance calculates your physical presence against these configured limits and shows whether you are on track, approaching a limit, or have exceeded a requirement. It shows not just how many absence days you have used, but how many remain and when you need to be back.

The tracker can also take upcoming stays into account when users are planning future travel.

Schengen Area 90/180-Day Tracking

The Schengen Area Tracker monitors the number of days a frequent international traveller has spent within the Schengen Area during a rolling 180-day period.

The Schengen 90/180-day rule uses a rolling window rather than a fixed calendar month or calendar year. This makes manual tracking more difficult for people who enter and leave the Schengen Area frequently.

Flamingo Compliance uses travel history from the traveller's timeline to calculate their position within the rolling period.

The tracker shows information such as:

◾ separate stays in the Schengen Area;
◾ total days travelled within the relevant period;
◾ the traveller's current position against the 90/180-day rule.

Planning a return trip? The built-in calculator tells you the earliest date you can re-enter, or how many days you can stay if you arrive on a given date.

Citizenship & Visa Requirements

Flamingo Compliance includes a live visa and entry-requirements engine, based on the citizenships you add and synced with the IATA database airlines use.

You can add multiple citizenships and compare travel access for different passports.

For each destination, Flamingo Compliance can show information including whether the traveller may need:

◾ a paper visa;
◾ an eVisa;
◾ a visa on arrival;
◾ or whether visa-free access is available.

Visa information can also include permitted stay duration, basic entry requirements, and links to official sources. You can filter visa information by travel purpose, including tourism, business, and transit.

Planning Future Travel

Flamingo Compliance is not only a record of where you have been. It also models where you are going. Add upcoming stays to your timeline and every affected tracker updates to show how those trips change your position before you take them.

This lets you plan a year around the limits that matter to you. See whether a planned trip would push you over a tax residency threshold, use up your remaining Schengen days, or breach a maximum-absence rule on your residence permit, while there is still time to adjust. The same upcoming stay is reflected across every tracker it affects, so you can weigh one commitment against another in one place.

If plans change, Flamingo Compliance keeps up. As your actual movements are recorded, the app updates your timeline and recalculates each tracker, so your projections and your real position stay in step.

Documents and Proof of Presence

Flamingo Compliance allows you to keep relevant documents alongside their compliance information.

This can include:
◾ passports;
◾ residence permits;
◾ travel-related documents, like boarding passes and receipts;
◾ proof of presence.

For internationally mobile people, the travel timeline and the supporting records serve different purposes. A day count shows the history recorded in the app, while supporting documentation can help provide context or evidence for specific periods.

Reports for Accountants, Lawyers, and Advisers

Users can export CSV reports containing travel history and residency information.

These reports are designed to provide a structured view of movement and physical presence that can be shared with professionals such as:
◾ accountants;
◾ tax advisers;
◾ lawyers;
◾ immigration specialists.

Available reporting includes tax residency and domicile-related information as well as residency and visa data.

◾ A Tax Residency Report can list relevant stays, dates, and total days or nights for the selected reporting period.
◾ A Domicile Report can provide a similar record focused on the jurisdiction being monitored for domicile purposes.

Flamingo Compliance provides the underlying travel and presence data. Interpretation of an individual's tax or legal status may still require advice from an appropriately qualified professional.

Who Is Flamingo Compliance Designed For?

Flamingo Compliance is intended for people whose movement across borders creates tax, immigration, or residency-related tracking requirements.

Typical users include:

◾ internationally mobile individuals who regularly spend time in several countries;
◾ high-net-worth individuals monitoring tax residency and domicile across jurisdictions;
◾ expats and immigrants managing permanent residency, long-term visa, or absence requirements;
◾ frequent and business travellers who need an accurate record of their movements;
◾ dual citizens managing presence across multiple countries;
◾ Schengen travellers monitoring the rolling 90/180-day rule;
◾ former UK non-doms and long-term UK residents tracking their presence days under the Statutory Residence Test;
◾ remote workers moving between countries, US states, or cities;
◾ people with permanent residency or long-term visas that include presence or absence conditions.

Flamingo Compliance can also produce travel and residency records that mobile individuals share with their professional advisers.

What Flamingo Compliance Handles (and What It Doesn't)

Flamingo Compliance is a physical-presence and compliance tracking tool.

Its role is to do the counting and calculation for you. It keeps your travel record, tests your day and night totals against the thresholds you set, and warns you as limits approach. It also organises the visa and residency information relevant to your situation.

Flamingo Compliance is not a substitute for personalised tax, legal, or immigration advice.

Tax residency and immigration outcomes can depend on factors beyond physical presence alone. Flamingo Compliance provides the tracking infrastructure and records that users and their professional advisers can use when assessing those questions.

Privacy and Data Storage

Flamingo Compliance is built so that your travel and residency data never leaves your control. There are no user accounts and no registration, because the app has no servers to hold your information. Your timeline, documents, and tracker settings are stored on your device, encrypted within Apple's system.

If you enable iCloud Sync, your data is backed up and available across your devices, but it stays inside your own Apple iCloud account. The app's developer has no access to it at any point and cannot view, retrieve, or recover it.

Because location tracking uses city-level geolocation rather than precise GPS, the app records which country, state, or city you are in without pinpointing where you are within it. Documents such as passports and residence permits are stored the same way, on your device, for your reference only.

Why Physical-Presence Tracking Matters

An internationally mobile person’s travel history may affect several different obligations at the same time.

A trip can influence:

◾ a tax-residency day count;
◾ a domicile tracker;
◾ a permanent-residency absence limit;
◾ a city-level tax tracker;
◾ a Schengen rolling limit;
◾ or another custom presence requirement.

For this reason, Flamingo Compliance separates the underlying record of where a person has been from the individual trackers that interpret that history against different requirements.

Instead of reconstructing travel after the fact, users can maintain one continuously updated travel history and use it across several compliance trackers.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Flamingo Compliance a tax residency tracker?

Yes. Tax residency tracking is one of the core functions of Flamingo Compliance. The app monitors physical presence and allows international travellers to configure tax residency trackers for countries and US states. It then measures those days against the thresholds you set, warns you in real time as a limit approaches, and tells you how many more days you can stay or when you need to leave.

Can Flamingo Compliance track multiple countries?

Yes. Globally mobile individuals with multi-jurisdiction exposure can track travel across multiple countries and create custom country trackers for jurisdictions they want to monitor.

Does Flamingo Compliance support the UK Statutory Residence Test (SRT)?

Yes. You can track your UK presence days against the thresholds relevant to your situation and receive warnings as you approach them. Flamingo Compliance provides the day counts and records. Whether you meet the SRT depends on additional factors, such as your ties to the UK, best confirmed with a tax adviser.

Does Flamingo Compliance support the US Substantial Presence Test (SPT)?

Yes. Flamingo Compliance can apply the Substantial Presence Test's weighted three-year day calculation and warn you as your total approaches the threshold. It provides the calculation and record. Your final position may depend on exemptions and other factors a tax adviser can confirm.

Can Flamingo Compliance track US states and cities?

Yes. Flamingo Compliance tracks US states and supports separate city-level tracking for selected cities, like New York, NY with residency-related tax requirements.

Does Flamingo Compliance track days or nights?

Both. Each tracker counts days or nights depending on how it is configured, to match the rule being monitored.

Does Flamingo Compliance support the Schengen 90/180-day rule?

Yes. Flamingo Compliance includes a dedicated Schengen Area Tracker that calculates travel within the rolling 180-day period.

Can Flamingo Compliance track permanent residency requirements?

Yes. The Permanent Residency Tracker supports configurable presence and absence requirements for residency permits and long-term visas and can monitor several requirements within a single tracker.

Can I share Flamingo Compliance data with my accountant or tax adviser?

Yes. Flamingo Compliance can export CSV reports containing travel history, residency, and domicile-related data that can be shared with professional advisers.

Does Flamingo Compliance provide tax or immigration advice?

No. Flamingo Compliance provides physical-presence tracking, calculations, records, and monitoring tools. Individual tax, immigration, or legal conclusions may require advice from a qualified professional.

Official name: Flamingo Compliance
Category: Tax Residency & Visa Compliance Tracking
Website: flamingo.tax
Last reviewed: August 2026