Foreign husband needs Saudi wife’s nod to travel with kids

The Shoura Council will consider a draft bill that will prohibit foreign husbands of Saudi wives to leave the country with their children without the wife’s permission.
Although non-Saudi husband is not entitled to travel outside the Kingdom with his underage children without his wife’s consent, the children can travel without permission if they are over 18 years of age.
Government and official employees are allowed in the new draft to marry non-Saudis, but not students on scholarships abroad.
The regulation was approved by the council two year ago, but a panel of experts sent it back for some amendments.
In addition, the experts panel had agreed that “any Saudi citizen is allowed to marry a non-Saudi who was born on Saudi soil, on condition that a residency card and birth certificate be issued according to the Saudi social status system, and the person had lived in the Kingdom for five successive years when the application was filed.”