According to an expert, Prince Harry ‘does not have the green card’ to become a US citizen after a telltale clue was uncovered in the carefully worded language used recently

Prince Harry has informed the authorities in the United Kingdom that he is now “usually resident” in the United States.

The Duke of Sussex, along with his wife Meghan Markle, moved from Windsor in England to Montecito in California back in 2020. The couple’s move across the pond came several months after they announced they would be stepping down as senior working royals.

Then, three years after their departure from the UK, in 2023, the Sussexes were unexpectedly evicted from Frogmore Cottage with Harry’s father, The King, requesting that they vacate. Last week, Harry changed his primary residence last week, from the United Kingdom to the United States, with it backdated to when they officially vacated the cottage last June.

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According to an expert, Prince Harry ‘does not have the green card’ to become a US citizen
But according to an expert, the carefully worked language avoiding the use of “permanent residence” suggests he does not have a green card, the first step to naturalisation and becoming a US citizen.

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Charlotte Slocombe, a partner at the global immigration law firm Fragomen and an expert on US immigration has said: “From a US immigration perspective ‘residency’ covers a gambit of visa categories and essentially means that he is not a tourist.

“It does not provide any indication of what type of visa he holds. The lack of the use ‘permanent residence’ seems to suggest that he does not in fact hold a Green card, which would be the first step to naturalisation and becoming a US citizen. Harry can maintain temporary US immigration status by holding an A-1 diplomatic visa, or O-1 Extraordinary Ability or Achievement visa indefinitely, without ever needing to become a permanent resident or US citizen.”

This comes after royal expert and author Tom Quinn exclusively told the Mirror : “Harry was absolutely furious and in tears about being evicted from Frogmore – he felt his father had no right to do it and that it was purely vindictive.” He added that Harry didn’t understand why stepping back from being a working royal would inevitably mean being deprived of his royal residence.

“Harry took it as a cruel rejection – a painful reminder of all that he felt when his father fought with his mother during their long drawn out, painful divorce,” he went on.

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