Prince Harry just scored a major legal victory.
A judge ruled that the Duke of Sussex's US visa will remain confidential. A think tank tried to get his application released To prove whether they mentioned it or not her past drug use,
according to BBCU.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols declared Monday that “the public has no particular interest in the disclosure of Duke's immigration records.”
The judge also said, “Like any foreign national, the Duke has a right to legitimate privacy regarding his immigration status.”
In a lawsuit last year, the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Efforts are being made to gain access to Harry's visa documents to determine whether he had made false statements about his previous drug use.
Harry, 40, admitted that 2023 memoir, “Spare,” He had experimented with cocaine, cannabis and psychedelic mushrooms — behaviour he would have been required to disclose in applications filed before he could move to the United States in 2020.
The judge acknowledged that Harry had shared “intimate details of his life” in his book, daily Mailbut ruled that exiled royal family There was a “reasonable privacy interest” in his immigration records.
In June, DHS denied The Heritage Project’s request to release Harry’s documents.
“To the extent the records exist, this office does not believe the public interest in disclosure is sufficiently strong to outweigh the subjects’ privacy interests,” DHS senior director Jimmy Wolfrey wrote in a letter obtained by The Post.
Nile Gardiner, director of the Heritage Foundation's Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, said the DHS response “This reflects a catastrophic lack of transparency by the Biden administration” and vowed the fight would continue in court.
In his memoir, Harry revealed that when he was 17 he used cocaine “to feel different”.
“Of course I was taking cocaine at the time,” he wrote in the book. “I was offered a line at someone's house while out hunting and from then on I took even more cocaine.”
In your interview On “60 Minutes” with Anderson Cooper last year, Harry said he relied on alcohol and drugs — such as cocaine, pot and psychedelics Death of his mother, Princess Diana,
The Heritage Foundation has insisted that Harry — who now lives in Montecito, California, with his wife Meghan Markle and their family, two children – He did not mention his drug history in his application form. Transferred from Britain.
The government has warned immigrants that making misleading or false claims on government papers could be grounds for deportation
former President Donald Trump He has even said that Harry would be considered for deportation If he's re-elected in November.
“We’re going to have to see if they know anything about the drugs, and if they lied, we’re going to have to take appropriate action,” Trump, 78, said of DHS in March.
