Prince Harry gets surprise royal lifeline amid US visa row: 'Golden ticket'

Prince Harry may have found his way out of the ongoing US visa storm with a “golden ticket.”

According to new documents unearthed by the Trump administration, the Duke of Sussex could be holding an A-1 Head of State visa, a rare diplomatic pass typically reserved for foreign royals.

The revelation comes after months of legal wrangling over whether Harry declared his past drug use — which he admitted to in his 2023 memoir Spare — on his immigration forms upon moving to the US in 2020. 

The Heritage Foundation had pushed for his records to be made public, arguing it was in the public interest. But in March, a US judge ruled that his visa details must remain private.

Immigration lawyer Melissa Chavin told the Daily Mail the A-1 visa would explain the discrepancy: “The Department of State vets and issues the A-1 visa with little input from the Department of Homeland Security. I would expect that Prince Harry had an A-1 visa every year of his life… Each entry will be permitted for an indefinite period of time called ‘duration of status.’ For him, that is all of his life.”

Experts say such a visa would allow Harry to “sit here [in the US] forever,” giving the 40-year-old royal the freedom to stay in California indefinitely with Meghan Markle and their children — Prince Archie, 6, and Princess Lilibet, 4.