Prince Harry’s Immigration File Revealed: Legal Battle for Access to DHS Documents

This very influential organization in conservative circles claims, under freedom of information laws, the immigration file of the prince who, at odds with the British royal family, settled in California in 2020 with his American wife Meghan Markle.

The youngest son of King Charles III “has publicly admitted (…) a number of drug offenses in the United States and abroad”, she notes in her appeal. However, she adds, “American law normally makes such people ineligible for entry” into the country.

The case concerns Prince Harry “but mainly concerns the Department of Homeland Security and its respect for the law”, pleaded his lawyer Samuel Dewey before Judge Carl Nichols. It is a subject that “is arousing very broad media interest”, he added.

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“A person’s visa is…confidential,” Homeland Security attorney John Bardo told him.

The request does not violate the prince’s private life since “he has spoken and written a lot” about his drug use, Mr. Dewey said on leaving court.

In his memoirs, published in January, the prince admitted to having used cannabis, psychotropic drugs and cocaine, in the United Kingdom, Lesotho and on American soil.

In 2002, “in someone’s country house, during a hunting weekend, I was offered a line, I have taken a few others since”, he wrote in particular in “Le Suppléant “, where he also says he “swallowed” hallucinogenic mushrooms at a party in Los Angeles in 2016.

“Psychedelic drugs have also done me a little good. I took them for fun for several years (…) then for therapeutic, medical purposes”, he adds, presenting himself as a young “unhappy” ready to try anything to “change the status quo”.

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However, the “Heritage Foundation” notes that other personalities, including footballer Maradona or singer Amy Winehouse, have been refused entry to American soil because of their drug use.

In particular, she wants to have access to the questionnaire to be completed to enter the United States, where each candidate must say if he has ever used drugs.

So far, she has faced refusals from three entities of the ministry, but has not yet had a response from the latter’s management.

While acknowledging that these documents “may be of some interest to the public”, the government considered that the American mainstream media had not looked into the legal status of the prince and that there was no urgency to act. .

After very technical discussions, Judge Carl Nichols asked the administration to see if the ministry’s management could make a decision or speed up the processing of the request by next Tuesday.

Otherwise, “I will make a decision”, he said, while emphasizing that it would not relate at this stage to the merits of the case, but to the need to speed up the examination of the request. of documents.