Harry and Meghan 'losing sleep' over complicated US visa court case, expert says
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle could be in “big trouble” as his US visa application is put under intense scrutiny, a royal expert has claimed.
The Duke of Sussex’s visa application is to be addressed during a trial in the US, after the conservative think-tank The Heritage Foundation demanded Harry’s application be made public to reveal his answers to questions regarding his drug use. In his 2023 memoir Spare, the father-of-two admitted he had taken drugs, and the think tank has taken the case to court in an effort to uncover if the prince was truthful about his past during his application.
While the case will not decide if Harry can stay in the US, it will determine whether he received special treatment from the Department of Homeland Security over the answers in his visa application. Royal expert Tom Quinn said Harry “could be in big trouble” with the impending court case, and any revelation about drug-taking in his book “could have any implication for his status in the United States.”
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Harry and Meghan could face trouble over his visa application (Getty Images)“He is so used to living in a world where the normal rules don’t apply to him because he’s a member of the royal family,” he told the Daily Express. “We are not going to know until the judge makes some kind of a decision, but Harry and Meghan will be having sleepless nights over this.”
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The case will be tried in Washington D.C., and the Heritage Foundation is trying to prove to a judge that Harry has been given preferential treatment because of his royal status, and was approved to live in the country “under false pretences.” The organisation also questioned if his visa application should have been approved as a “non-royal” would not have been given the same treatment.
He made the claims about his past drug use in his memoir Spare (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock)“We at the Heritage Foundation have sued the Department of Homeland Security for the release of those records because they have refused to operate in a transparent fashion,” Nile Gardiner, director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation, said of the case. While a visa application is considered confidential, the organisation claimed Harry relinquished those rights when he documented his drug use in his memoir Spare.
Royal commentator Tom said he believes Harry is “assuming that it was all so long ago that it is irrelevant,” but the landmark case is a “matter of serious public interest”, and could land the royal in hot water. “I wouldn’t be surprised if publication of his original Visa application is allowed, especially if it shows that Harry did not tick the box saying he had in the past taken drugs,” he explained.
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