Harry’s US visa application fight will return to court this week (Image: Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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 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.
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 ’s visa documents to determine whether he made false statements in his application, claiming it was of “immense public interest”.
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Prince Harry admitted to taking drugs in his memoir, Spare (Image: Getty)
In September 2024, . 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 .
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”.
“I wouldn’t protect him. He betrayed the Queen. That’s unforgivable. He would be on his own if it was down to me,” Trump said in February last year,
He also previously vowed, before he was elected, that “Harry is on his own” if he became president again.
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, News.com.au’s royal reporter Bronte Coy said: “The new US President has made no secret about his position on it.
“He’s been asked about it so many times over the years. I genuinely believe has much more important things to be dealing with.”
She added: “But it’s probably something that’s not going away, especially as it continues to get this attention.
“I think that in itself will be concerning because The Heritage Foundation, who is the one pushing to have the application made public, has also lobbied and urged to intervene.”