Prince Harry's admission of drug use led to the request for his visa applications to be made public
will not be made public after a Freedom of Information Act request was denied by the Department of Homeland Security.
The Heritage Foundation think tank argued that the Duke of Sussex's visa records should be made public afterincluding marijuana and cocaine in the United Kingdom, and psychedelic mushrooms in California. However, in a letter to send to the organization, DHS Senior Director Jimmy Wolfrey wrote: "To the extent records exist, this office does not find a public interest in disclosure sufficient to override the subject’s privacy interests."The admissions of drug abuse can be a hurdle for non-Americans who want to be admitted to the country as it is a required answer on visa forms.
In response, the director of the Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, Niles Gardiner, said the DHS response “shows an appalling lack of transparency by the Biden Administration," and that "the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to stonewall the Heritage Foundation’s Freedom of Information request are unacceptable, and we will be contesting their position".
"To say, as DHS argue, that merely acknowledging whether a waiver exists would violate the Duke of Sussex’s privacy is to say: it is private whether he has a waiver, which he must have if he complied with the law given that he currently resides in the United States; it is private whether the government blatantly ignored the law in Prince Harry’s case; or that there is a privacy interest in perjury.
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