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WASHINGTON \u2014 The mystery of whether Prince Harry fibbed on his immigration papers will likely remain unsolved, as a pair of federal court cases seeking to compel disclosures about the terms of his visa stalled in the months before he and wife Meghan Markle announced Wednesday they would be returning to the UK.<\/p>\n

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Lawyers at the conservative Heritage Foundation sued the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department in 2023 to crack open the Duke of Sussex\u2019s immigration file after Harry admitted in his memoir \u201cSpare\u201d to taking drugs.<\/p>\n

Upon emigrating to the US in 2020, the black sheep royal should have disclosed his substance abuse \u2014 including dabbling in cocaine, cannabis, and psychedelic mushrooms \u2014 in a document that would have made its way to DHS.<\/p>\n

The now-41-year-old\u2019s visa application to the State Department would have also been fraudulent if Harry didn\u2019t share his youthful misadventures with drugs.<\/p>\n

But Heritage\u2019s Freedom of Information Act lawsuits failed to bring forward information from either agency about the prince\u2019s immigration status before the duke and duchess announced they would be crossing back over the pond six years after stepping back from royal duties.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still want all the documents,\u201d said former Heritage staffer Mike Howell, now president of the government accountability group Oversight Project and a party to the lawsuits.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrince Harry may be leaving, but our fight for the truth goes on,\u201d Howell added. \u201cMaybe he won\u2019t be able to come back.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Trump had ruled out deporting the prince early in his second term, joking to The Post\u2019s Miranda Devine: \u201cI\u2019ll leave him alone. He\u2019s got enough problems with his wife.\u201d<\/p>\n

A well-placed DC source claimed that while the legal battles challenged Harry and Meghan\u2019s presence in the US, the couple was really forced to exit after what this person called their \u201cgrift\u201d \u2014 including an ill-fated bid to become Netflix stars and Meghan\u2019s attempt to carve out a Martha Stewart-esque niche as a lifestyle brand \u2014 ran out of steam.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpare\u201d broke records by becoming the fastest-selling nonfiction book of all time when it was published in January 2023.<\/p>\n

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In March 2025, the Heritage suit against DHS yielded a handful of heavily redacted court declarations from federal agents who had personally reviewed Harry\u2019s immigration file.<\/p>\n

The agency only confirmed that it held \u201centry and exit records to the United States\u201d for Harry but declined to discuss other documents due to \u201cthe Duke\u2019s right to privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

A federal judge had already ruled out releasing information from the file itself, writing in a September 2024 opinion that \u201cthe public does not have a strong interest in disclosure of the duke\u2019s immigration records.\u201d<\/p>\n

An earlier declaration by a DHS Freedom of Information Act officer claimed that the public also wasn\u2019t entitled to the records if their release could submit Harry to \u201charm\u201d or \u201charassment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heritage attorneys subsequently sued the State Department for a broader range of documents that amounted to all records on the royal since January 2020.<\/p>\n

Department officials revealed in late July that just 18 records were responsive to the initial request but would all be withheld due to FOIA and immigration laws.<\/p>\n

Heritage lawyers theorized that Harry likely came to the US on a so-called O-1 visa, which is reserved for people \u201cof exceptional talent or ability.\u201d<\/p>\n

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To obtain an O-1 visa, applicants must provide a petition from a sponsor with evidence of \u201cexceptional talent or ability.\u201d In Harry\u2019s case, attorney Samuel Dewey previously told The Post, that sponsor could have been one of the prince\u2019s foundations and the visa may have been granted based on his \u201cfundraising\u201d prowess or any other skill deemed \u201cexceptional.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both suits were also filed under suspicion that Harry may have received special treatment from the feds, regardless of how truthful he was about his confessed drug use.<\/p>\n

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Reps for DHS and the State Department did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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