Thread regarding Saudi Aramco layoffs

Different religions beware

They don’t tell you this up front and when I challenged my relocation advisor, he claimed he didn’t know. This is a genuine post and is based on a recent experience.

I am a Christian and moved across. My wife is a certain religion that is favourable to Arabs. When I applied for her visa it was bounced. We eventually got a workaround by removing her religion from the application and resubmitting. Essentially the government worker at the visa place was friendly and unofficially advised me what to do. He could have flat out rejected it.

I’m sharing this in case there are others who are married under different religions. Steer clear of Aramco. They will not recognise the marriage. They won’t tell you ahead of time because your advisor is either d-mb or a liar. And of course if you’re anything like me, it didn’t occur to ask before moving.

Your scenario is this: one of you will need to lie about your religion. Now if some fundamentalist decides to make an example of someone, for example, who denies being a Muslim, a potentially very bad path will emerge.

In the end it was a bridge too far for us and we walked away.

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I thought this was kind of obvious when I was hired but whatever. My wife is Muslim and she knew better to lie on that part of the application when we came over.

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Did I say I was an active Christian or expected an egalitarian response? No. Just didn’t expect, nor was advised of the risk of a visa for my spouse to be refused. I shared to help others, it’s neither up nor down to me if amoeba like you respond.

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I knew a guy, English, that had a Turkish wife. He converted to M and had a wonderful career. Even took the Ramadan half day work schedule; no problems.

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If you’re an active Christian, why would you come to a conservative Muslim country and expect and egalitarian response?

Kind of a no brainier surely?

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