I’m worried it will affect my ability to work and we have had no help

Catriona Black, 45, is a Scottish writer now living in the Netherlands with her husband and two children Anna, 9 and Calum, 11. They moved there to allow her husband to work as an academic researcher at the University of Amsterdam.

I’m worried about the effect of Brexit on my ability to carry out my work which is very much cross-border.

I’m making a Gaelic animation for BBC Alba and there are no problems with money and the commissioning process.

It will be a lot trickier in the future due to VAT and production insurance.

Another client of mine is the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, if I ever move back to Scotland I wouldn’t be allowed to work for them.

Despite promises the government hasn’t done anything to address freedom of movement for those of us who have, in

good faith, already moved to European countries.

The Netherlands is a tiny country and people cross borders all the time for work, for life.

You might have a job in the Netherlands one day and Belgium the next.

That’s now impossible because you can only apply for permanent residency in your host state at the time of Brexit.

So you can stay where you are but you cannot move around.

Fortunately I have an Irish passport for myself and our children but my husband doesn’t.

What happens if he gets a job offer in Belgium?

I’m also worried that the states have a right to refuse you permanent residency if you don’t have the money to look after yourself.