To go on a two week holiday without my DD 10?

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Backstory... I'm going to meet DH's family in April. We've decided to spend a week with them and have a week to ourselves. He is staying there when I come back to the UK and we're applying for his spousal visa from there. He is not DD's father.

DD is very welcome to come but says she doesn't want to miss even one day of school! (I'm actually quite proud of this) however would it be unreasonable to leave her for two weeks, one week with my sister and the other with my mother?

Nothing is booked yet and I've already discussed this with DH who said I'm not BU. She is coming with me in the summer holidays for 3 weeks and he said I could Skype her every day.

It'll be the first time I've been away from her for more than a weekend. What do you all think? I've tried not to dripfeed but you may have questions I haven't thought of!

I'd leave her, she'll be absolutely fine. I regularly travel for work and will be leaving my DC for 2 weeks next month.

Sorry OP, I certainly wasn't criticising your choice to marry a non-Brit, having done it myself. We go to my husband's home country regularly. If we had to stay in certain areas, only with him, and feel generally unsafe - it wouldn't happen. Having travelled across North Africa in my early twenties, I can honestly say I would never go back, ever. It would be a cold day in hell before I'd take a ten year old girl. I've travelled to many places that I haven't been especially keen on, but NA is the only place I've ever changed my flights and given up on. The harassment and danger is just vile. The ominous feeling when you realise that you've gone off of a particular street and have to hurry back to a 'safe' area is just not worth it. I don't 'get' there being any desire to travel to a dangerous place. They don't think it's dangerous because they're locals, and locals don't get harassed in the street. As I said, google women, danger, Algeria and see what comes up. Still not getting why he'd be gone for a year either.

I've been through the bureaucracy myself for DH, although it was a lot simpler when we did it.

I haven't seen where the OP has indicated how long the process will take. She said that he will be at home for a year, but clarified that this was to spend some time with his ageing parents.