Bethany Vierra was granted residency as the mother of a Saudi citizen, a relatively new status that she had not been able to obtain after her divorce because her husband refused to provide the required paperwork, according to Nicole Carroll, her cousin.
An American woman who was stuck illegally in Saudi Arabia with her young daughter after her Saudi husband divorced her said Sunday that Saudi authorities had granted her legal residency after The New York Times wrote about her ordeal last week.
The woman, Bethany Vierra of Washington state, moved to the kingdom in 2011, where she started a business, married a Saudi businessman and gave birth to a daughter, Zaina. Her troubles began after the divorce, when her former husband failed to renew her residency, meaning she was in the kingdom illegally but was also blocked from traveling through airports or accessing her bank account.
Vierra’s case showed how even an American woman and her Saudi-American daughter could be ensnared by the kingdom’s guardianship laws, which grant Saudi men power over women in a number of ways.
US woman stuck in Saudi Arabia granted legal residency
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