Prince Harry’s U.S. Visa ‘Should Have Been Denied Or Revoked’ Following Drug Use Admission, Lawyer Says — But Others Disagree

etcanada.com:

Legal experts have spoken out about whether Prince Harry’s past drug use admission will affect his rights to live in the U.S.

Harry, who stepped back as a senior royal alongside wife Meghan Markle in March 2020 before moving to California, admitted to taking cocaine, mushrooms and smoking weed, as well as drinking heavily, in his tell-all memoir Spare.

Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani has now told Page Six that his admission should have previously been declared to officials. “An admission of drug use is usually grounds for inadmissibility,” Rahmani said. “That means Prince Harry’s visa should have been denied or revoked because he admitted to using cocaine, mushrooms and other drugs.” Rahmani, who is president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, insisted there was “no exception for royalty or recreational use.” Despite Rahmani’s comments, other legal experts have said Harry would only have issues if he was to get into trouble and do something that was considered a criminal act.

James Leonard, who represented “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Joe Giudice in his immigration case, told the publication: “Absent any criminal charge related to drugs or alcohol or any finding by a judicial authority that Prince Harry is a habitual drug user, which he clearly is not, I don’t see any issue with the disclosures in his memoir regarding recreational experimentation with drugs. “You’ve got to give them something that would trigger it, and revealing it in a book, that you experimented with drugs when you were a young man, I don’t think gets you there. “Immigration is not going to do anything based on that.