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Donald Trump has previously suggested he could deport Prince Harry if he is found to have lied on his US via application over past drug use.

Prince Harry’s US visa row has taken a dramatic new twist after a judge left open the possibility of releasing some of the sealed documents from his application.

Secret records revealing details of the Duke of Sussex’s visa status in the US are currently sealed.

However, in a hearing in Washington D.C. earlier today, the Judge Carl Nichols said: “I’m not foreclosing the possibility that there might be some possible relief.”

He asked Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security to provide requests for redactions or “continued withholdings”.

The judge added he wanted the “maximum disclosure as long as it doesn’t violate privacy”. John Bardo, a lawyer for the department, said the documents would be a ‘shell’ once redacted.

It will be a test of whether Trump will force through a change of stance at the department in charge of immigration, which so far refused to hand over Harry’s records.

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, sued Biden’s Department of Homeland Security demanding access to Prince Harry’s visa documents to determine whether he made false statements in his application, claiming it was of “immense public interest”.

In September 2024, Judge Nichols ruled that Harry’s records would remain private. He said: “Like any foreign national, the duke has a legitimate privacy interest in his immigration status.”

Harry admitted in his bombshell memoir, Spare, that he experimented with cocaine and other drugs in the past, which he would have been required to disclose on forms filed before moving to the US with Meghan Markle.

Trump has previously said he would consider deporting Harry if he had lied in his application, saying that officials would “have to take appropriate action”.