Could Prince Harry’s loose lips sink his own immigration ship?

Could Prince Harry’s decision to dish all, including perhaps foolishly sharing about taking cocaine, psilocybin mushrooms and weed before coming to America, and in the U.S. as recently as 2020, come back to bite him in his royal behind?

The British and American press continue to press the issue and question whether he could lose his immigration status over his loose lips. 

In his memoir Spare (a reference to being the “spare heir” as the younger son of now-King Charles III), Harry, the Duke of Sussex, admitted using cocaine and psilocybin mushrooms, and smoking weed. In an effort to perhaps cleanse his soul, he revealed through his ghostwriter that he smoked weed in high school; after his first date with his now wife, Meghan Markle, in 2016, and most recently in 2020, after he had moved to the U.S. and while he, his wife and son were living at Tyler Perry’s LA home during the lockdown while house-hunting. 

“Late at night with everyone asleep, I’d walk the house, checking the doors and windows. Then I’d sit on the balcony or the edge of the garden and roll a joint,” he wrote of his most recent weed-smoking episodes after moving to the U.S.

Harry also opened up about using other drugs like cocaine and ketamine. In fact, he claimed he was tripping pretty hard at a party at actor Courteney Cox’s house when a garbage bin started looking like someone’s head. He wrote: “I stepped on the pedal and the head opened its mouth. A huge open grin. I laughed.”

The admissions have triggered a series of questions over how his drug use might affect his immigration status. While it is unclear what visa exactly Harry is here on, since his wife is a U.S. citizen and could easily sponsor him, there is speculation that he is here on an O visa, which is usually granted to people with “extraordinary abilities,” such as athletes or people in the motion picture or television industry. Such visas usually come up for renewal after three years.