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Brexit: UK looks to keep visa-free travel from EU Brexit: UK looks to keep visa-free travel from EU
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The government plans to keep visa-free travel to the UK for EU visitors after Brexit, the BBC understands.The government plans to keep visa-free travel to the UK for EU visitors after Brexit, the BBC understands.
The Home Office proposals would mean visitors from countries within the EU would only need permission to work, study or settle in the UK. But if visitors from EU countries wanted to work, study or settle in the UK they would have to apply for permission, under the proposals.
EU citizens are currently free to live and work in the UK without a permit.
The Home Office says managing migration is about access to work and benefits as much as the ability to control entry at a physical border.
But ministers are likely to face questions about how they would stop visitors staying longer and getting jobs without a visa.
Plans for the UK's immigration system are due to be outlined in the autumn.Plans for the UK's immigration system are due to be outlined in the autumn.
The government said current immigration controls were managed through access to jobs and welfare, not just the ability to control entry at a physical border. The government says it wants to progress to negotiations with the EU about the future operation of its border controls, as quickly as possible.
One of the "huge challenges", the BBC's political correspondent Eleanor Garnier said, will be how the system tracks whether an EU traveller's visit changes into a longer-term trip that would require a visa.
On Wednesday, the government said there should be no hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after Brexit.On Wednesday, the government said there should be no hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after Brexit.
A paper detailing its proposals stressed there should be no physical infrastructure - such as customs posts - at the border which has almost 300 crossing points.A paper detailing its proposals stressed there should be no physical infrastructure - such as customs posts - at the border which has almost 300 crossing points.
Critics said the proposals lacked credible detail, with Labour deriding the plans for the border as a "fantasy frontier".Critics said the proposals lacked credible detail, with Labour deriding the plans for the border as a "fantasy frontier".