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Fatwa CenterHer husband wants to buy a visa to enter Saudi Arabia
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My husband is planing to immigrate from Canada to Arabie Saudi .one men promise him to help him for getting his visa and my husband will pay him for that . After getting his visa my husband will go their to look for a job or to start a small business .After that he will sponsor me .I don't know how long it will take .I love my husband a lot and it is hard for me to separate . Also is it permissive in Islam to immigrate from Canada to arabie saudie and getting visa after lying to goverement of Arabie saudie .
Answer
All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad 
is His slave and Messenger.
The answer to your question will be in two points:
1- In regard to the person who wants to get the visa issued (from the authorities for someone else), if he needs some expenses, or is exposed to hardship and travel, then he may take according to what he spent on it, in addition to the fees which anybody other than him may take for his efforts (to the visa issued) in agreement with your husband.
2- In regard to your husband, if getting the visa issued is conditioned on the terms explained, then it is permissible for your husband to pay that man what he deserves otherwise no. That is because a visa is an authorization, and an authorization is one of the contracts which are meant to help people and it is not permissible to take a compensation for it. If your husband gives him compensation in this case, he would have helped him in consuming what is forbidden. This is of course if your husband is not in necessity to migrate from that non-Muslim country, like fearing for himself or his family the reasons of temptation, and he is not able to get the visa except by paying the demanded amount, then he may pay it to him and it is the person who takes this money who becomes sinful.
In any case, it is not permissible for your husband to migrate except if he leaves you in a place where you would feel safe and he should secure your expenditures. Moreover, it is not permissible for him to be absent from you more than six months except with your permission. He should endeavour to find a way so that you would reside with him where he resides, and this is an easy matter, Allaah willing.
If we presume that your husband travels, then you should preoccupy yourself with what benefits you in your religious and worldly matters, and you should be keen on observing fasting as much as you can.
Allaah Knows best.
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