@Ifemi. I think Kukuwife absolutely has a point. You and your partner should put in a single application as a family and hopefully get a favorable outcome. This is the advice that most Nigeria solicitor will advice to apply as a single parent and hopefully DLR will be granted.
This route you or your partner are planing only works if one of you has right to be here or the child is British/ lived here continuously for 7 years or more and you have sole responsibility for the child. Now that your child is 7 there is 40% chance of success, although my son is 8 years now and we are still waiting for reconsideration request submitted since 2010.
We got the same advice from a Nigeria lawyer, but we decided to apply as a family when our son turned 7yrs. Although our application was refused because our stupid immigration lawyer decided to apply son as main applicant, and we the parent and siblings as dependents, which was completely wrong.
Thankfully we got our HO fee refunded in full. At least we did not make our application complicated So think before you make a separate application for your 7 yrs old child. Fees are so high now we have decided to wait till our son turns 10 next year Nov, before we put in a new application.
Hopefully as a family of 6 I can't afford application fees with NHS surcharge, so I will be thinking of fee waiver whenever we decided to put it application
. The should continue to increase their fees which will definitely makes it impossible for families to pay for the fees and end up applying for fee waiver.
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