Human Rights Watch MENA director Sarah Leah Whitson confirmed the family’s departure in a statement on Thursday.
She said: “Good news for a change: confirming that Jamal Khashoggi’s son Salah and his family are finally out of Riyadh and on their way to the US, travel ban lifted.
“Too bad Salah had to endure that cruel and bizarre greeting with MBS [Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman] first.”
Before this, Jamal’s son had allegedly been banned from leaving Saudi Arabia.
Saudi state media released pictures taken of Salah meeting and shaking hands with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdelaziz.
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He also met Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MbS) who offered him his condolences for his father’s death.
MbS later stated the journalist’s death was “really painful to all Saudis”.
Jamal Khashoggi worked as a journalist in Istanbul where he wrote for the Washington Post.
He disappeared at the beginning of the month after entering the Saudi consulate where he was trying to collect papers to prove that he was divorced.
After entering the consulate, he was tortured, killed and dismembered by a hit squad sent by Saudi Arabia.
After several weeks of denying any involvement, Saudi Arabia admitted that he had been killed accidentally.
This week, they changed their story again to admit that the murder had been “premeditated”.
MbS and Saudi officials continue to deny that the Crown Prince had any involvement in the killing.
Since the journalist’s death, multiple countries have halted arms deals with Saudi Arabia.
US President Donald Trump has stated that it will be up to the US Congress to decide what to do in response to the killing.
Trump has repeatedly stated that he does not want to end a $110billion (£84.8billion) arms deal with the Kingdom because it will bring the US “a million jobs”.