Breaking News: A Judge Has Ordered Prince Harry’s U.S. Immigration Records to Be Made Public….Read More

The file was ordered to be made public by the end of the day on March 18.

Prince Harry’s immigration record will be made public imminently, according to a ruling by a U.S. federal judge.

According to Today, the Department of Homeland Security has until the end of the day on March 18 to comply with the judge’s order and release the records, which could reveal if he disclosed prior drug use before moving to the United States with wife Meghan Markle and their son Prince Archie in 2020. (Daughter Princess Lilibet was born in California the next year, 2021.)

Conservative group the Heritage Foundation has been seeking the release of Harry’s immigration records for several years under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Harry disclosed prior drug use—including cocaine—in his 2023 memoir Spare, and while drug use itself isn’t necessarily a disqualifying factor for a visa, lying about it could pose problems. In theory, if Harry “didn’t disclose drug use on his visa application, that could be grounds to have him removed” from the U.S., Today reported.

In the pages of Spare, Harry wrote that cocaine “didn’t do anything for me,” but added, “Marijuana is different, that actually really did help me,” per The Telegraph. Harry also said in an interview with 60 Minutes Australia to promote Spare (and per Us Weekly) that he took psychedelics to help with his grief following the death of his mother, Princess Diana, in 1997, when Harry was just 12.

I would never recommend people to do this recreationally,” Harry said. “But doing it with the right people, if you are suffering from a huge amount of loss, grief, or trauma, then these things have a way of working as medicine.”

The federal government has fought efforts to make Harry’s paperwork public—and ruled last September that it didn’t pass muster to be of public interest—but on appeal, Judge Carl Nichols ruled in favor of the Heritage Foundation and said over the weekend that Tuesday was the deadline to make Harry’s immigration files public.

President Donald Trump said in February—amid disparaging comments about the Duchess of Sussex—that he wouldn’t seek to deport Harry from the U.S., telling The New York Post “I don’t want to do that. I’ll leave him alone.

Harry and Meghan have made Montecito, California their home for five years now. Last December, speaking at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit, Harry said of the U.S., “I very much enjoy living here and bringing up my kids here,” confirming that he had no intentions to leave his new home country.