A “unique” court case concerning the Duke of Sussex ’s immigration records should be reopened because certain submissions by the US government were made in secret, it has been claimed. A judge ruled in September that Prince Harry’s US visa application should remain private , following an almost two-year legal battle surrounding his admission of drug taking. The Heritage Foundation, a Washington DC-based think tank, failed in its bid to access the documents on the grounds that the duke waived his right to privacy when he divulged personal details in his memoir.
However, the foundation is now seeking to reopen the case on the basis that it was not granted access to private submissions made by the Biden administration to the judge. In a new court filing, it states that the way the case was conducted breached “iron-clad guardrails” on conducting ex-parte proceedings – those involving only one party..
