Originally Posted by
flora1
@Nayef, I think what those people did travelling between US and Saudi directly, is very risky. Definitely the airline would have shared information with the countries indicating they have 2 different passports. The Saudi government might not have done anything about that knowledge, but that can change any time in future with a crack down. Once information is in the system, the information is there forever. They would have been wiser to do what you said about Chinese citizens, going through a different country before reaching their final destination. That way conflicting information transmitted by airlines, would have gone to that different country, instead of Saudi.
The people I mentioned are US-born and have an American mother so it's considered legal. But either way, Saudi citizens must enter and leave Saudi on a Saudi passport and as I mentioned they don't check for visas or anything when leaving Saudi so there's no need to go through the hassle of buying separate tickets.
In my case I only used my Saudi passport all the way from check in at the airport in the US all the way to landing into Saudi or GCC airports such as BAH where I mostly fly into. There was no step where I presented my US passport.