The US government has published documents related to a legal battle at Prince Harry’s visa request in 2020 on Tuesday, but expurred large portions, saying that it had a duty to protect her private life and that there was no evidence that he had received a special treatment.
A conservative reflection group, the Heritage Foundation, had filed a request from the Freedom of Information Act, arguing that the public had the right to know if the British royal revealed the previous drug consumption that he detailed in his memories, “spare” on his request.
More than 80 pages of court documents and transcriptions were published Tuesday with large sections covered in black.
Immigration officials said the heritage foundation had not established that the public interest prevailed over the right to privacy for Harry, the Duke of Sussex.
“The complainants allege that the files should be disclosed because the public confidence in the government would suffer or to establish whether the Duke has obtained preferential treatment. This speculation of the complainants shows no evidence of the government’s misconduct,” wrote Jarrod Panter, an official of citizenship and immigration services in the United States, part of the Ministry of Interior Security.
Harry and his American wife Meghan abandoned their royal duties in Great Britain and moved to the United States in 2020.
The representatives of Harry and the Heritage Foundation did not immediately respond to requests for comments.
