Some 7,000 Jordanians married Arab nationals in 2017

AMMAN — The total number of Jordanian women who married Arab nationals in 2017 stood at 3,582, while 3,413 Jordanian men married women of Arab nationalities during the same year, the Sisterhood Is Global Institute (SIGI) announced on Wednesday. 

Citing the 2017 Supreme Judge Department’s annual statistical report, SIGI said that the total number of marriage contracts of Jordanian women to other foreign nationals reached 333, while Jordanian men signed 467 marriage contracts to women of other foreign nationalities, according to a SIGI statement.

As for the Arab nationals Jordanian women married, Palestinians topped the list with 1,760 contracts, followed by Syrians (995), Egyptians (313), Saudis (210), Iraqis (127), Yemenis (64), Lebanese (28), Bahrainis (28) and Emiratis (18). 

The Palestinian nationality topped the list of Arab women that Jordanian men married with 1,525 contracts, followed by Syrian with 1,333, Egyptian (185), Iraqi (153), Moroccan (65), Lebanese (53), Algerian (46), Saudi (18) and Yemeni (15).

The US nationality topped the list of non-Arab nationalities Jordanian women married with 108 contracts, followed by the British with 31, Pakistani (31), German (29) and Canadian (27). 

As for Jordanian males marrying to non-Arab foreign nationals, US women were at the top of the list with 132 contracts, followed by Ukrainians with 62, Russians (33) and Germans (29), SIGI noted.

SIGI added that several Arab countries grant nationalities to the children of women married to foreigners, such as Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Yemen, the UAE and Iraq, but Jordan only grants children of Jordanian women married to non-Jordanians civil and service privileges, rather than political, without granting them full citizenship.

In this regard, SIGI reaffirmed its demand that the Jordanian nationality be granted to the children of Jordanian women married to Arabs and other nationals.