I wish you will not suffer like me.. I gave birth in Doha last december 2012 and they didn't give my son a residence permit up to now. they told us to send our son out of doha and process the visa while he is outside the country. My 1year old son travelled last week with my sister and 3 years old daughter who has residency already but unfortunately can't keep her here for i am working and i need to process my son's residency. We tried to go to immigration couple of times and trying to meet the committee but left us hopeless.. it ended up holding my sons passport and ticket by CID until his flight to make sure he will go out of the country. I don't really know which kind of law they were talking about.