Prince Harry may be struggling to keep his US visa in place following the release of his memoir Spare in which the Duke of Sussex admitted to using recreational drugs before he left the UK after stepping down from the royal duties and shifted to the United States. A report in the Daily Mail revealed that a conservative research institute is in a heated dispute with US officials who are rejecting requests to publish details of Prince Harry’s visa application.
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The Heritage Foundation claimed that Prince Harry’s visa application should be made public so that it can be known whether he revealed about his use of drugs before entering the US or not. The director of the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, Mike Howell, said as per Daily Mail, “This request is in the public interest in light of the potential revocation of Prince Harry’s visa for illicit substance use and further questions regarding the Prince’s drug use and whether he was properly vetted before entering the United States”.
A spokesman for the US State Department said as per the report, “Visa records are confidential under Section 222(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA); therefore, we cannot discuss the details of individual visa cases.”
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In his tell-all memoir Spare, Prince Harry admitted to using cocaine, cannabis and magic mushrooms, claiming that psychedelics and marijuana “really helped” him deal with his “trauma”, while cocaine use for him was more of a “social thing”.
Prince Harry said in an interview while promoting his memoir, “(Cocaine) didn’t do anything for me, it was more a social thing and gave me a sense of belonging for sure, I think it probably also made me feel different to the way I was feeling, which was kind of the point. Marijuana is different, that actually really did help me.”
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