Prince Harry’s visa paperwork will likely be unsealed TODAY: Duke braced for bombshell reveal of papers amid row over if he declared drug use

Prince Harry’s visa files will be made public today as Donald Trump supporters told MailOnline that the royal should leave the US voluntarily if they show he lied about his drug use.

Washington Judge Carl Nichols has ordered the release of unseen documents giving the clearest indication yet as to whether the Duke of Sussex admitted to taking cannabis, cocaine and magic mushrooms on his immigration paperwork.

Greg Swenson, Chairman of Republicans Overseas UK, told MailOnline today that if the files reveal he has hidden the truth then he should must leave the US to avoid the ignominy of court proceedings.

It came as the Department of State issued an official warning to visa holders that they will be deported if they fail to follow ‘all U.S. laws and immigration rules’ and that cases and documents are ‘continuously’ under review.

Mr Swenson said: ‘If Harry is here illegally it would be hypocritical for him to get special treatment given the mass deportations occurring now. Smartest thing for Harry would be to leave the US, avoid the proceedings and leave voluntarily’.

But President Trump is unlikely to intervene in the case, he predicted.

‘It probably won’t rank high enough as an issue. I don’t think he will intervene’, he said.

Judge Nichols has set the deadline of the end of Tuesday to release the files and also approved redactions suggested by the Department of Homeland Security and said they were ‘appropriate’.

While it is not clear what material will be released, it could include forms which indicate whether Harry said ‘no’ when asked if he was a drug user.

It may also reveal what type of visa Harry was granted, as some experts wonder if he was handed an extremely rare A-1 Head of State visa.

Lawyers for DHS have previously said that three items will be released with redactions but a fourth must remain private.

The right-wing Heritage Foundation sued the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) last year after the agency, which oversees immigration in America, refused a Freedom of Information request for Harry’s files.

Heritage claims that Harry may have lied on the forms under the section which asks if he had been a drug user.

In both his memoir, Spare, and his Netflix TV series Harry talked about using cannabis, cocaine and magic mushrooms.

In his order, Judge Nichols, who was appointed by Donald Trump, said: ‘The government has provided the court with its proposed redactions to the documents…those redactions appearing appropriate, the government is ORDERED to lodge on the docket the redacted versions of those documents no later than March 18, 2025’.

The case has caused embarrassment and consternation for Harry and raised questions about whether he could be deported if he was found to have lied.

But President Trump recently said he would not order him out of the country, while taking a swipe at Meghan, who he called ‘terrible’.

Trump said he was only giving Harry a break because ‘he’s got enough problems with his wife’.

In September Judge Nichols had refused the request from Heritage to release all the documents because the Duke had a right to privacy.

But after a hearing he reconsidered and said he wanted to reveal as much as he could.

‘In my view that has to happen’, Judge Nichols said during a previous hearing adding that wanted to make the ‘maximum amount’ of material public that he could.

Judge Nichols did however say he did not want to reveal Harry’s immigration status, meaning that there could be heavy redactions on some files.

Speaking after that hearing, Nile Gardiner, director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at Heritage, appealed to Trump to make the files public.

He said that the president had put ‘border security and the application of the rule of law a top priority’.

In the past Harry has been frank about his drug use and once said that cannabis helped heal the trauma of the death of his mother, Princess Diana.

The Duke said that using ayahuasca, a psychedelic drug, he realized that his mother wanted him to be ‘happy’.

That means Harry’s US visa application in March 2020 could show he ticked the ‘no’ box on questions about his drug use, Heritage claims.

In previous legal filings, DHS said that the records at issue are ‘particularly sensitive’ because they would ‘reveal Harry’s (immigration) status in the United States’.

DHS wrote: ‘Even though he is a public figure, Prince Harry still maintains a privacy interest in these types of records and in his immigration or visa status generally.

‘Even if public figures may have a diminished expectation of privacy, they do not surrender their privacy interests entirely’,

The filing added that ‘were this not the case, a requester could go on a fishing expedition for (government) records for any celebrity at all’.

The original request sought to reveal whether Harry, who moved to the US after quitting being a working member of the British royal family, was getting ‘preferential treatment’.

Heritage has merely ‘recounted a litany of allegedly suspicious circumstances (that) lacked any substantiation’, DHS said.

DHS has also dismissed the Heritage Foundation’s claims as a ‘bare suspicion of government misconduct’ and making Harry’s paperwork public would not shed any ‘meaningful light’ on how it operates.

Harry’s representatives have declined to comment on the case.

A judge is set to dramatically release potentially bombshell documents about Prince Harry’s U.S. visa.

Judge Carl Nichols will imminently make public three previously secret papers relating to the royal’s immigration status. 

They are expected to provide new insight into the process by which the Duke of Sussex was granted a visa despite admissions of drug taking.

Here is what you need to know about the case.

Why have questions been asked about Prince Harry’s U.S. visa? 

Five years ago the Duke moved to the U.S. with his American wife Meghan Markle.

Then, in 2023, he published his memoir ‘Spare’ in which he admitted to taking drugs including cocaine, marijuana, magic mushrooms, and the psychedelic drug ayahuasca.

When foreigners obtain U.S. visas they are asked on a form if they have abused drugs.

That led to questions about what he answered on the form.

Sources close to the royal have previously indicated he answered truthfully.

But critics have claimed that could mean he was given a waiver and ‘preferential treatment’ by the Biden administration.

What is the court case about?

A long-running civil court case has been going on at the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C.

It began after the Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based think tank, launched a bid under the Freedom of Information Act to uncover Harry’s immigration status.

After the request was refused, the think tank took the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to court seeking documents.

Harry himself is not involved in the court case in any way.

After a long series of legal wrangles Judge Nichols ruled in September that there was not a public interest in releasing documents that had been provided to him by DHS.

However, last month, following appeals, he agreed to release redacted copies of three documents, while not releasing a fourth. 

The judge said there should be ‘maximum disclosure as long as it doesn’t violate (Harry’s) privacy.’

He then told DHS lawyers to redact what they needed to, and provide the court with the documents, which they have done.

Could Donald Trump deport Harry?

Last year, President Donald Trump appeared to suggest it was possible.

In an interview with GB News he was asked, by Nigel Farage, if Harry should enjoy ‘special privileges’ should it come to light he did not tell the truth.

Trump replied: ‘We’ll have to see if they know something about the drugs, and if he lied they’ll have to take appropriate action.’

Farage said: ‘Appropriate action? Which might mean…not staying in America?’

Trump said: ‘Oh I don’t know. You’ll have to tell me. You just have to tell me. You would have thought they would have known this a long time ago.’ 

However, in February, Trump told the New York Post: ‘I don’t want to do that. I’ll leave him alone. He’s got enough problems with his wife. She’s terrible.’

Could Prince Harry be on a special visa?

Immigration experts have suggested to DailyMail.com that the royal may be on an extremely rare A-1 Head of State visa.

That would mean he was not vetted by U.S. authorities for past use of drugs when he moved to the country.

An ‘A-1 Head of State’ visa is used by heads of state and royal family members. It is distinguishable from the A-1 visa, which is for senior diplomats.

Holders of an A-1 visa, such as an ambassador, are supposed to come to the U.S. to work on behalf of their home country. 

But an A-1 Head of State visa holder is free to come and go without working.

If he does possess such a visa, the Duke would be able to keep it as long as he remains in line for the throne. 

On each entry to the country he would be given ‘duration of status’ meaning he can stay in the U.S. indefinitely each visit. 

It is not yet known if the documents set to be released will confirm what type of visa he has.

Harry’s representatives have declined to comment on the case.