SNP seeks a way to avoid border checkpoints after independence

But Ian Bond, director of foreign policy for the Centre for European Reform, said border controls would be inevitable if Scotland voted for independence and was readmitted to the EU under standard conditions. ...Assuming the rest of the UK made a clean break with the EU, moving from Scotland to England would require a passport, because the Anglo-Scottish border would become an external Schengen border. Similarly, customs would have to be set up on the Border, because it would become the external border of the EU. “So if Scotland goes for the standard package then you really are looking at a much harder border,” Bond explained.