Re:Saudi Aramco: The message from the world’s biggest and wi...
by twic on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:10AM
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It seems like there's a presumption that a Saudi woman who marries a foreigner will take his citizenship. Eg in [1]:
> 17 - Considering Articles (132 – 133) of Legal Civil Procedures System, the Saudi female does not lose her Saudi Citizenship if she married a foreigner, unless she is allowed to leave the Kingdom with her husband, and joined her husband's nationality according to statutory laws of this nationality.
> 18 - Saudi wife of a foreigner has the right to recover her Saudi Citizenship in case of divorce and returning to the Kingdom.
So, although it's explicitly not the case that a Saudi woman automatically loses Saudi citizenship on marriage, reading between the lines a bit, it seems that it's common that she does in practice, because she takes her husband's nationality. Perhaps it's common for the citizenship rules in other Arab countries to require that? So if a Saudi woman marries a Emirati man, maybe Emirati law requires that she becomes an Emirati citizen, so she stops being a Saudi citizen. This is speculation, though.
> 17 - Considering Articles (132 – 133) of Legal Civil Procedures System, the Saudi female does not lose her Saudi Citizenship if she married a foreigner, unless she is allowed to leave the Kingdom with her husband, and joined her husband's nationality according to statutory laws of this nationality.
> 18 - Saudi wife of a foreigner has the right to recover her Saudi Citizenship in case of divorce and returning to the Kingdom.
So, although it's explicitly not the case that a Saudi woman automatically loses Saudi citizenship on marriage, reading between the lines a bit, it seems that it's common that she does in practice, because she takes her husband's nationality. Perhaps it's common for the citizenship rules in other Arab countries to require that? So if a Saudi woman marries a Emirati man, maybe Emirati law requires that she becomes an Emirati citizen, so she stops being a Saudi citizen. This is speculation, though.
[1] https://www.refworld.org/pdfid/3fb9eb6d2.pdf