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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.
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. 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.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.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. But ministers are likely to face questions about whether there will be a back door into Britain for EU citizens and how the Home Office would stop visitors staying longer and getting jobs without a visa.
The Migration Watch pressure group said it was a "sensible, proportionate" proposal but the government would need to spend more money in immigration enforcement to deal with overstayers.
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 says it wants to progress to negotiations with the EU about the future operation of its border controls, as quickly as possible. But, according to The Times, the new system for EU visitors will be phased in after Britain officially leaves the EU in March 2019, with those coming to work in the UK initially having to register with the Home Office without work restrictions.
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has accused the government of caving in to EU demands.
But Brexit-backing Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen said: "I don't think anybody ever intended we were just going to pull the shutters down and become a Little England.
"The same restrictions will apply to UK citizens who wish to visit the Continent.
"I mean, did you really think we were going to have a visa system just to go for a weekend to Paris?"
The government says it wants to progress to negotiations with the EU about the future operation of its border controls as quickly as possible.
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".