Today's news is that the UK Government is suggesting visa-free travel for EU nationals visiting the UK for tourism, but not for work or study. Now if that is accepted and the EU does the same, that shouldn't be too bad. Don't give up hope just yet.

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If you are to punish a man retributively you must injure him. If you are to reform him you must improve him. And men are not improved by injuries. (George Bernard Shaw)

Hi Normallife

The idea of a European Travel Information and Authorisation Scheme to enter the EU is certainly worrying. 

However as AB2014 says and the European Commission have confirmed, the exact details are yet to be finalised and a visa scheme is still very much in the proposal stage. As it's something that's likely to affect anybody with a criminal record, we'll be adding information to our Hub site as and when we know more. 

Debs





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One probable reason why it hasn't been raised much is that nobody knows how it will turn out. The government is committed to ending freedom of movement, and is clearly happy to cut off their nose to spite their face, but then the European Commission previously aired the idea of all UK citizens being given associate EU citizenship, whatever that is. I'm not aware of the legality of EU citizenship, as there are only citizens of EU member states. Sadly, there are still members of the Cabinet who seem to believe that we're calling the shots on Brexit and that the EU will end up doing what we ask and give us a better deal than we already have, even though they've been told time and again by senior EU figures that it won't happen.

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If you are to punish a man retributively you must injure him. If you are to reform him you must improve him. And men are not improved by injuries. (George Bernard Shaw)

Is anyone else worried about what might happen if we choose to abandon freedom of movement during Brexit negotiations?

One area of concern is we would require visas to travel to the continent and may be required to declare convictions! This is unbelievable! Our right to travel, move freely and live in Europe is under threat. This is an extremely important issue that affects all of us and I'm surprised it hasn't been raised much on this forum. One would think that as time goes by, a country becomes more civilized- in a civilized country the citizens have rights- such as what we have currently with EU freedom of movement. However, that's not the case with the UK as it seems we're gonna be hit hard by the impact of Brexit.