The Heritage Foundation has been on a two-year-plus fishing expedition to get their hands on Prince Harry’s visa records in the United States. Their entire “case” hinged on “did Harry lie in his visa application?” NOT: “we have evidence that he might have lied” – Heritage’s FOIA request and two-year harassment campaign was solely based on vibes. Even their right-wing allies had grown tired of Heritage’s targeted hate campaign. When the judge on the case ruled, a few days ago, that Harry’s visa records would “finally” be released, it was clear even in the British tabloid reporting that the records would be heavily redacted. That didn’t stop the American, British and Australian media from hollering “Harry could be deported” at the top of their lungs for the past two years. Well, here we are. The records were released. They are HEAVILY redacted, but the Trump DHS lawyer was clearly unamused that Heritage has continued to pursue this BS. From the Mail’s coverage:
Claims that Prince Harry received special treatment when he emigrated to the United States are false, the Trump administration said Tuesday. A lawyer from the Department of Homeland Security said that Harry’s application followed all the ‘applicable rules and regulations’.
The statement was made in heavily redacted documents that were made public on Tuesday after a lawsuit by the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank, which was seeking to prove that Harry lied about his drug use on his visa papers. But despite a judge vowing to release as much material as possible, Harry’s actual immigration file has remained private. The six documents that were released contain page after page of blocked out type, meant to protect Harry’s privacy and stop him being subjected to ‘harassment’.
The partial release of the material will be met with relief by Harry as it appears to be the end of a case which began last year when Heritage sued DHS – and led to speculation the Duke might be deported by Donald Trump. DHS had refused a Freedom of Information request from Heritage for Harry’s visa files on the grounds that he may have lied about whether or not he was a drug user.
The released documents include a declaration from Jarrod Panter, chief FOIA officer at DHS, who said that the agency determined it was not possible to release ‘any portion’ of Harry’s records as anyone with a familiarity with immigration law could easily determine Harry’s status. The Duke, 40, has not publicly revealed his status in the US after immigrating in 2020 with his wife Meghan Markle, 43, with whom he has two children.
Panter wrote that US immigration ‘routinely protects from disclosure the nonimmigrant/immigrant status sought by third parties who do not have permission from the beneficiary to receive this information’. He said: ‘To release such information would potentially expose the individual to harm from members of the public who might have a reason to manipulate or harass individuals depending on their status in the United States’.
Making such information public could subject Harry to ‘reasonably foreseeable harm in the form of harassment as well as unwanted contact by the media and others’. Panter rejected the idea that Harry had been given ‘preferential treatment’. He wrote: ‘This speculation by (Heritage) does not point to any evidence of government misconduct. The records, as explained above, do not support such an allegation but show the regulatory process involved in reviewing and granting immigration benefits which was done in compliance with the Immigration and Nationality Act and applicable rules and regulation’.
Panter’s declaration contains a seven page long list of documents that were identified in the case – but all of them are redacted.
I know a lot of Sussex fans are super-clever, so I hope someone makes a video of all of the redacted documents with the recorder-version of “My Heart Will Go On.” All of this time, money and effort just to get a bunch of blacked-out pages released publicly. Of course, it wasn’t’ solely about getting their hands on an immigrant’s documents – it was about harassing Harry and creating a toxic environment around Harry, all to provide a storyline for the British press. Pathetic. A total embarrassment.
We all laughed when the judge said this : pic.twitter.com/iT1YjtrKKd
— HRH The Duke of Thomassin
(@HRHDukeThomas) March 18, 2025
Here are the papers that derangers said would get Harry deported to toxic isle. Let me sit down and have a good laugh!
Credit: @theroyaleditor pic.twitter.com/9ZovFLpW75
— Zandi Sussex (@ZandiSussex) March 18, 2025
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