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Prince Harry is reportedly looking into acquiring a United States citizenship just four years after quitting his native UK for Californian beaches although he admitted it isn't a high priority.
The news comes after he relocated to California with his wife, Meghan Markle, after becoming estranged from the Royal Family due to treatment towards her, including alleged racism, and to himself after claimed he was assaulted by his brother, Prince William, the Prince of Wales.
But for now, he is open to the idea although he currently isn't exploring it as he raises his two young children aged four and two and continues to build a life in the United States.
"I have no idea. I'm here standing next to these guys," Prince Harry said to Good Morning America ahead of the Invictus Games.
"The American citizenship is a thought that has crossed my mind but is certainly not something that is a high priority for me right now."
However, the main problem in the road may not be his own motivation to become a citizen but his previous history of drug use which he admitted to in his memoir titled Spare.
According to Neama Rahmani, speaking to Page Six, admitting to drug use is grounds for inadmissibility meaning that his application could be rejected out of hand by US immigration policies.
Some hope for Harry yet
But, all hope has not been abandoned. A US attorney has also offered precedence to Harry's cause, after he represented Joe Giudice during his immigrations case.
"Absent any criminal charge related to drugs or alcohol or any finding," Guidice said. "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."
A further problem could be that the Prince, who still holds the title of Duke of Sussex, could be forced to revoke that status despite using it as a marketing tool for his charitable and professional endeavors. It's also the name his children bear as official last names.
"Any applicant who has any titles of heredity or positions of nobility in any foreign state must renounce the title or the position," the US Citizenship and Immigration Services documents declare.
"The applicant must expressly renounce the title in a public ceremony and USCIS must record the renunciation as part of the proceedings."
