[pjc50]

Let me get this straight, your ability to re-enter the UK to be with your family depends on a URL printed on a piece of paper?

[Reason077]

No, a URL in an emailed letter.

This is more about proving your status to employers and such. Border agents will, presumably, be able to see your status electronically through their own system.

[mytailorisrich]

Who says EU citizens will need a visa to enter the country?

[Reason077]

EU citizens will almost certainly not need a visa to visit the UK, no matter what the final circumstances of Brexit.

However, like other countries that do not need a visa to visit the UK, border agents could still refuse entry if they believe (for example) you intend to seek work rather than just visit.

[mytailorisrich]

I.e. in practice there won't be any issue until they have proper procedures and documentation in place.

[pjc50]

Are you absolutely bet-your-job sure about that? Because EU nationals will have to be.

[mytailorisrich]

There is no need to create panic.

They said EU citizens in the UK are welcome to stay and EU tourists will be welcome without visas, which is common sense, really.

Therefore I don't see the need to scare everyone. There are not going to start denying entry to EU citizens.

And I write this as an EU citizen in the UK.

[ben_w]

I am glad that you, as an EU citizen in the UK, are not panicked.

However, in many cases the panic already exists, in no small part because the people running the UK refuse to be held to their own previous promises, even when it comes to what they want from Brexit.