Date: October 17th, 2017 2:09 AM
Author: orange massive piazza dopamine
Well, Saudi has a unique system. Basically you can only "naturalize" by being Muslim or converting, AND marrying into a Saudi family, and it all requires a lengthy application process for government permission which they usually try to deny. There is no permanent residency either. I doubt more than a handful become Saudi every year.
Otherwise you are here on a work visa, dependent visa, or business visa, or for the Muslim pilgrimages. And when the visa is expired, you are OUT.
Pretty much the main things are that I can't go to Mecca or the center of Medina. Or enter a mosque.
The religious police have stopped and politely asked where I'm from and if I'm Muslim but that's it. I have not seen any recently.
Contracts with my kind are enforced, or broken, pretty much like for any other kind of non-Saudi, though Americans are at the top of the heap in terms of foreigner nationalities. Waaayyy better than being South Asian, that I can tell you.
Things like cushy permanent government jobs, government contracts, and the like are shut off to me due to me not being a citizen as well as the sharp cutbacks in oil revenue. But Saudis have been feeling the crunch, too. So it is a function of religion but really also citizenship.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3766463&forum_id=911#34460478)