Originally Posted by Newryman
And we haven't even started on MRP and Bio Metric passport requirements yet lol.
Seriously however, the poster prior to you is correct in that it is probably going way beyond what the OP envisaged

being the OP I will say that I found all the responses very interesting
well, maybe I did get a bit lost when it got onto 214(b) and DS-156
I'm back in BOS 2 weeks today so if I'll update this thread if I encounter any problems