Where Prince Harrys immigration case stands as he prepares to leave US with Meghan Markle

WASHINGTON — The mystery of whether Prince Harry fibbed on his immigration papers will likely remain unsolved, as a pair of federal court cases seeking to compel disclosures about the terms of his visa stalled in the months before he and wife Meghan Markle announced Wednesday they would be returning to the UK.Lawyers at the conservative Heritage Foundation sued the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department in 2023 to crack open the Duke of Sussex’s immigration file after Harry admitted in his memoir “Spare” to taking drugs.Upon emigrating to the US in 2020, the black sheep royal should have disclosed his substance abuse — including dabbling in cocaine, cannabis, and psychedelic mushrooms — in a document that would have made its way to DHS.The now-41-year-old’s visa application to the State Department would have also been fraudulent if Harry didn’t share his youthful misadventures with drugs.But Heritage’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuits failed to bring forward information from either agency about the prince’s immigration status before the duke and duchess announced they would be crossing back over the pond six years after stepping back from royal duties.“We still want all the documents,” said former Heritage staffer Mike Howell, now president of the government accountability group Oversight Project and a party to the lawsuits.“Prince Harry may be leaving, but our fight for the truth goes on,” Howell added.“Maybe he won’t be able to come back.”President Trump had ruled out deporting the prince early in his second term, joking to The Post’s Miranda Devine: “I’ll leave him alone.

He’s got enough problems with his wife.”A well-placed DC source claimed that while the legal battles challenged Harry and Meghan’s presence in the US, the couple was really forced to exit after what this person called their “grift” — including an ill-fated bid to become Netflix stars and Meghan’s attempt to carve out a M...