Prince Harry faces fresh visa headache as think-tank wants him questioned at US border | Royal | News

Prince Harry‘s visa row with a  think-tank pushing for his immigration documents to be made public is still ongoing despite the latest updates regarding his records. The Duke of Sussex found himself in hot water after conservative Washington DC think tank, the Heritage Foundation, requested his visa documents be made public following his claims about past drug use in his memoir, Spare.

Harry’s reference to taking cocaine, marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms prompted the organisation to question why he was allowed into the US in 2020. On Tuesday, heavily redacted court filings were released to the public but shed no fresh light on the circumstances under which the duke entered the US. Now the think tank said that the duke should be “questioned” at the US border next time he travels just days after it said that it will push again with a new lawsuit against the duke.

The Heritage Foundation’s Nile Gardiner told The Sun: “He [Prince Harry] should be questioned at the US border when he returns from wherever he travels. These drugs are illegal in the US.

“This is a new era of immigration enforcement in the US and the rules are being strictly enforced by the new US administration.”

The Duke of Sussex has been contacted for comment.

Meanwhile, earlier this week, the think tank’s lawyer, Samuel Dewey, claimed that the group will push for a second lawsuit and suggested that if the duke “dislikes” President Donald Trump, he should just “go home”.

Mr Dewey claimed that in one of the hearings last April, there was a “mismatch” between the DHS and State Department files.

He told the Mail: “If he’d say I used drugs or was in on a diplomatic visa, that would be in the DHS files.

“Then you wouldn’t have this situation where the judge says I don’t have the full story. That’s what we read from these documents.”

US Department of Homeland Security officials responded to a request from U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols by saying the records were being “withheld in full” and that all records are deemed “categorically exempt from disclosure.”

It comes after a September 2024 ruling from Carl Nichols that the public did not have a strong interest in the disclosure of Harry’s immigration records, but the Heritage Foundation wanted the judgment to be changed.

Despite previously refusing the FOI request, lawyers for the Department of Homeland Security in February agreed to release redacted versions of the forms.

In his memoir, Harry said cocaine “didn’t do anything for me”, adding: “Marijuana is different, that actually really did help me.”

Mr Trump said in a GB News interview with Nigel Farage in March last year that Harry should not receive preferential treatment.

Asked if the duke should have “special privileges” if he was found to have lied on his application, Mr Trump had said: “No. We’ll have to see if they know something about the drugs, and if he lied they’ll have to take appropriate action.”