{"id":535761,"date":"2025-10-29T16:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/535761\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:22:12","slug":"prince-harry-says-he-has-no-plans-to-become-a-united-states-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/535761\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry Says He Has \u2018No Plans\u2019 to Become a United States Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince Harry<\/strong><\/a> is not seeking American citizenship.<\/p>\n

\u201cAm I going to become a U.S. citizen?\u201d Harry, 41, said during his Wednesday, October 29, appearance on the \u201cHasan Minhaj Doesn\u2019t Know\u201d podcast<\/a>. \u201cThere are no plans to be at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harry, 41, said that despite living in America for five years, things are \u201cmore confusing\u201d to him than ever. However, he failed to elaborate on what that meant. (He and wife Meghan Markle<\/strong> relocated to California when they parted ways with the royal family in 2020.)<\/p>\n

The Duke of Sussex\u2019s admission about his citizenship comes months after questions about his immigration status went public this past March.<\/p>\n

The drama started in March 2024 when it was revealed that Nile Gardiner<\/strong>, director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, was in a legal battle with the Department of Homeland Security to release Harry\u2019s visa application. The request was denied by that September.<\/p>\n

The Heritage Foundation\u2019s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request alleged that Harry concealed past drug use, which wouldn\u2019t allow him to obtain a U.S. visa. (Harry detailed his use of cocaine, marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms in his 2023 memoir, Spare<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

By February of this year, the Department of Homeland Security agreed to release a redacted version of the application<\/a>. The 82-page document went public in March and was heavily blacked out. It did not reveal Harry\u2019s immigration status<\/a> or any discussion regarding past drug use.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo release his exact status could subject him to reasonably foreseeable harm in the form of harassment as well as unwanted contact by the media and others,\u201d chief FOIA officer for the Department of Homeland Security Jarrod Panter<\/strong> shared in a statement at the time. \u201cThere is the potential of harm in the form of harassment if his exact [redacted] is revealed. Thus, there [are] significant privacy interests involved in the records.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the drama was not addressed during Wednesday\u2019s podcast episode, Harry did reveal other quintessential American things that he does \u2014 and doesn\u2019t \u2014 do.<\/p>\n

He does not drink Coors Light or wear shorts in restaurants, although he said that has nothing to do with moving to America.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t really have legs for shorts,\u201d he explained. \u201cI got chicken legs. No one should see my legs in a restaurant.\u201d<\/p>\n

On a more serious note, Harry discussed his two kids<\/a> \u2014 Prince Archie, 6, and Princess Lilibet, 4 \u2014 whom he shares with wife Meghan, 44.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey know that we help other people, but they don\u2019t know the background,\u201d Harry said when asked whether they know what his job actually is.<\/p>\n

A bulk of Harry\u2019s appearance on the podcast was actually about kids and the digital generation. Harry said that he and Meghan \u201ctalk a lot\u201d about the possibility of their kids asking for cellphones.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that, because of what we know now, we will be way more cautious and hesitant of allowing our kids to have access to social media,\u201d he said. \u201cThe problem is, so many parents don\u2019t have that awareness. In no logical, fair, ethical, moral world should a parent have to consider that this app that sits on the phone \u2014 which, by the way, having a phone for your kid is a really important thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry is not seeking American citizenship. \u201cAm I going to become a U.S. citizen?\u201d Harry, 41, said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[4082,12,5105,7710,519,448,14066],"class_list":{"0":"post-535761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-celebrity-news","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-royal","11":"tag-royal-families","12":"tag-royal-family","13":"tag-royals","14":"tag-the-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115458378446638345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535761","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=535761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}