![A new 'orange zone' sign for U.K. livestock, food cargo and passenger customs checks with a 'green zone' traffic sign sits on display in a parking lot at the Port of Calais cross channel ferry terminal in Calais, France, on Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. The port of Calais on France’s northern coast has spent 6 million euros ($6.6 million) on facilities for customs officers, updated signage around freshly painted roads and huge extra parking lots for trucks. Photographer: Marlene Awaad/Bloomberg](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/LLJX5ODPGC6AIMKFHQIPFGPOE4.jpg?smart=true&auth=c2094019e0b09fed47c5be2577d02c8b06395b52684a42553f459506cda5c397&width=400&height=225)
Life is set to become more complicated for people living on either side of the English Channel. Marlene Awaad / Bloomberg
Life is set to become more complicated for people living on either side of the English Channel. Marlene Awaad / Bloomberg
For those of us with lives in two countries, Brexit is a bureaucratic minefield
I am British and my wife is French – so what happens to the hundreds of thousands like us when freedom of movement suddenly stops?