Prince Harry’s immigration documents are set to be released to the public within days, Sky News reported on Sunday, March 16.
According to the outlet, Judge Carl Nichol ordered the Duke of Sussex’s U.S. visa files to be released no later than Tuesday, March 18.
The court filing, dated Saturday, March 15, was issued as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request by The Heritage Foundation, a conservative U.S.think-tank,, which alleged that Harry’s history with drug use should have disqualified him from receiving a visa.
Harry, 40, admitted to taking cocaine, marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms in his 2023 memoir, Spare.
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Speaking to 60 Minutes Australia to promote the book, the royal revealed that he took psychedelics to help with his grief following the death of his mother, Princess Diana.
“I would never recommend people to do this recreationally,” Harry said at the time. “But doing it with the right people if you are suffering from a huge amount of loss, grief, or trauma, then these things have a way of working as a medicine.”
(Diana died following a car crash in Paris in 1997 when Harry was 12 and his brother, Prince William, was 15.)
The same judge previously denied the FOI request, citing lack of public interest. However, lawyers for the Department of Homeland Security said in February that it would publish redacted versions of Harry’s forms.
“Specifically, Defendant would propose redacting all information in these items that would reveal information that the Court has determined Defendant can withhold,” the department lawyer John Bardo wrote in a court filing obtained by Sky News.
Harry has lived in California with his wife, Meghan Markle, and their eldest child, Prince Archie, since 2020. (The couple’s second child, Princess Lilibet, was born in 2021.)
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Royal fans recently celebrated the anniversary of the couple’s “freedom flight” from Vancouver Island, Canada to Los Angeles, where they stayed in Tyler Perry’s home before purchasing their own property in Montecito. It marked the start of the couple’s new life after they resigned from royal duties and agreed to be financially independent in 2020.
“It’s 6 a.m. on the 14th of March and we are on the freedom flight. We are leaving Canada and we are headed to Los Angeles,” Harry said in a video that resurfaced via royal fan pages on March 14, 2025. (It was first shared in Netflix’s Harry & Meghan docuseries in 2022.)
Us Weekly has reached out to representatives for the Duke of Sussex and Department of Homeland Security for comment.
