Title

Qatar: Law No. 21 of 1989 regulating marriage to foreigners

Date of adoption

25 December 1989

Last amended:  17 March 2005

Entry into force

01 January 1989

Text versions

Arabic

English

Source:

– Official Journal Issue No. 16 (01 January 1989) p. 620. Retrieved from: Al-Meezan Qatar Legal Portal, accessed: 21 July 2013.

–  http://www.almeezan.qa/LawView.aspx?opt&LawID=2555&TYPE=PRINT&language=ar

– http://www.almeezan.qa/LawView.aspx?opt&LawID=2555&TYPE=PRINT&language=en

Abstract

Art. 1 lists the categories of persons who may not marry a foreign national other than GCC nationals.

Art. 2 sets the conditions that must be met by a Qatari man marrying a foreign woman and the conditions that must be met by the foreign woman.

Art. 3 lists the exceptions to those conditions.

Art. 4 lists the conditions that must be met by a foreign man marrying a Qatari woman.

Art. 6 lists the rights granted to a Qatari woman’s children once her marriage to a foreign man has been approved by the State.