{"id":373419,"date":"2025-08-25T22:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T22:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/373419\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T22:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T22:33:10","slug":"prince-harrys-u-s-visa-faces-new-scrutiny-after-over-1000-files-uncovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/373419\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry\u2019s U.S. visa faces new scrutiny after over 1000 files uncovered"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince Harry is facing renewed scrutiny over his United States visa application after Donald Trump\u2019s administration uncovered new findings.<\/p>\n

The Duke of Sussex, 40, moved to California in 2020 with his wife, Meghan Markle<\/a>, 44, after stepping back from their royal duties in the British Royal Family. Harry\u2019s immigration status<\/a> in the U.S. has been under question since he admitted in his memoir \u201cSpare\u201d to drug use, including cocaine and marijuana.<\/p>\n

RELATED: He’s official: Britain’s Prince Harry formally confirms he has become a US resident<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

New court records reveal the Department of State, which oversees visa applications, is holding 1,007 documents relating to his case. According to the records, 217 documents are held by the Office of the Secretary of State, the equivalent of the UK foreign secretary, while 517 \u201cpotentially responsive records\u201d were found within the Bureau of Consular Affairs.<\/p>\n

The docs are now set to be reviewed by a federal judge in Washington to decide what, if any, may be released to the public. This comes after a lawsuit filed in January by the Heritage Foundation, which sued the Department of Homeland Security over access to Harry\u2019s immigration records.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe number of papers on Harry shows they are monitoring him pretty closely,\u201d the organization\u2019s attorney, Samuel Dewey, explained. \u201cI think we\u2019re going to see documents from Harry talking about the case, but other material may be withheld. Then it will be up to politicians whether that decision is overruled.\u201d<\/p>\n

RELATED: Prince Harry and King Charles reconciling? Aides meet for first time amid Royal rift<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The legal troubles have prompted questions on how the Trump administration will respond to Harry\u2019s residency in the U.S., after the President, 79, previously being critical of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.<\/p>\n

The Department of State has declined to comment on the filings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry is facing renewed scrutiny over his United States visa application after Donald Trump\u2019s administration uncovered new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[96338,81255,41953,40,48824,447,5105,7710,519,448,49568,130632],"class_list":{"0":"post-373419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-department-of-state","9":"tag-documents","10":"tag-drug-use","11":"tag-immigration","12":"tag-lawsuit","13":"tag-prince-harry","14":"tag-royal","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-royals","18":"tag-scrutiny","19":"tag-u-s-visa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115091787205564192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}