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Friday, 16 December 2016Last updated: 44 min 10 sec ago

Foreigners marrying Saudi women to undergo drug tests

GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN | Published — Friday 16 December 2016


RIYADH: As part of a move to impose tighter restrictions on foreigners willing 
to marry Saudi women, the Saudi government has made it mandatory for foreign 
nationals to undergo drug testing before marriage.

The new rules, endorsed by the government, will discourage marriages with 
foreign nationals, while ensuring that couples after marriage don’t face social 
problems because of drug addiction and intoxication.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has instructed all hospitals and clinics around 
the Kingdom about this new rule.
Foreigners — men and women — willing to marry Saudis will be required to 
undergo medical examinations, and their reports will carry the information 
about the results of the drug test. This will be one of the eligibility 
conditions for foreigners taking Saudi brides or vice versa.
“In fact, a drug test has been added to the compulsory marital medical test for 
foreigners seeking marriage with Saudi women,” said Mishaal Al-Rabian, head of 
communications and PR at the MoH, on Wednesday.

He clarified that “the drug test is only for foreigners and, the test has been 
applied since the issuance of the circular a few months back.”
Al-Rabian’s clarifications reportedly came following rumors on social media 
that the MoH has started drug testing for citizens before marriage. Arab News 
could neither reach Al-Rabian, nor Abdullah Al-Shamrani of the ministry, for 
further information about the new rule.
But, Dr. Salem Al-Zahrani, who works for a private hospital in Riyadh, said 
“the mandatory drug test is a new provision added to the set of rules that 
define the terms and conditions of marriage between Saudis and foreigners.”

The new requirement will also help in subsequently decreasing the number of 
divorces, as well as cases related to marriage, inheritance and property, which 
have been piling up in Saudi courts.

According to a report published in Al Madinah Arabic daily, the drug test is 
mandatory for both foreign brides and grooms. As per the existing rules, a 
Saudi woman must be aged 30 to 55, if she wants to marry a foreigner. A Saudi 
man wishing to marry a foreign woman must be aged 40 to 65.The 17-point charter 
of rules governing the marriages of Saudis with foreigners, announced in 
October, also imposes restrictions on a Saudi man marrying a non-Saudi woman. 
In this case, a Saudi man must earn SR3,000 per month, and he must own or rent 
an apartment or house.

The charter also makes it clear that the woman married to a Saudi man may or 
may not receive Saudi citizenship. Also, the existing rules for Saudi women 
planning to marry foreigners makes it clear that the age difference must not 
exceed 10 years.


It is also important to note that in this context, the trend of marriages 
between Saudis and non-Saudis are on upswing. The Ministry of Justice revealed 
the statistics early this year, saying that last year, the number of marriage 
contracts between Saudi men and non-Saudi women reached 3,596, while female 
Saudi marriage contracts with non-Saudi males totaled 3,352.


The report stated that the number of divorcees among Saudis in 2015 reached 
40,000, representing almost a third of the marriage contracts during the same 
year, which is around 133,000 contracts.
Saudi Arabia is home for about 10.5 million foreigners, representing roughly 
one-third of the country’s population. Asians, South Asians, Arabs, Africans, 
Europeans, and Americans represent the bulk of the workforce of the country.

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