The legitimacy of a key document in the investigation of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D) alleged fraud was confirmed — leaving the Somalia-born politician’s own identity in doubt.
As evidenced by the opened and closed investigation of Omar under the administrations of Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, concerns about fraud are nothing new. However, as indictments remain expected following a series of raids that included the lawmaker’s house, the New York Post confirmed a marriage license showing her unclear on answering the question of her name is real and potentially damning.
Sharing an image of the 2009 application for a marriage license to her alleged brother, Ahmed Elmi, the newspaper highlighted how Omar wrote her name as Ilhan Abdullahi Omar, before crossing out the surname, replacing it with Omar Elmi, only to cross it out once more to jot down the initial name.
“A certified copy from the Hennepin County, Minn., government shows that the Democratic congresswoman’s surname was initially written as Omar, before being crossed out and replaced with Elmi. A final edit reverted it back to Omar,” reported the Post. “The revisions are potentially significant as the Justice Department investigates whether Omar fraudulently gained US citizenship in 2000 by failing to use her accurate legal name — and birthdate.”
Talk of alleged immigration fraud earlier this year found the Republic of Somaliland X account sharing the same image of Omar’s marriage license application with the question at the end of the post, “Extradition?”
Receipts: Ilhan Omar’s original last name was Elmi before it was changed.
This evidence was available, but the Obama Justice Department refused to investigate.Her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, and their father, Nur Said Elmi (also known as Nur Omar), used multiple names across different countries. Part of the family fled to the United Kingdom, while Ilhan Omar and others entered the United States under their father’s assumed name, “Omar.”
These name changes and split identities were used to conceal the father’s true war crimes and identity.
Marriage details:
• Groom: Ahmed Nur Said Elmi
• Bride: Ilhan Abdullahi Omar
(real name Ilhan Elmi)Extradition? @TheJusticeDept @DHSgov @WhiteHouse
— REPUBLIC OF SOMALILAND (@RepOfSomaliland) March 19, 2026
The Post also indicated that, by appearance, the application looked “to have been written with just one person’s handwriting,” though it remained unclear who that may have been, as it noted the question as to whether or not the bride and groom are related to one another “by blood or adoption” was answered by checking the box for no.
Commenting on the application, retired Minneapolis attorney Scott Johnson, who has investigated Omar’s alleged fraud for a decade, told the Post, “Questions should be asked. She’s never answered them.”
“The whole thing was a joke. The marriage was a fraudulent marriage, brazenly fraudulent. They didn’t take it seriously. It was entered into for a fraudulent purpose,” he went on.
Likewise, AJ Kern, who previously ran against Omar in the 2022 Democratic primary, told the newspaper, “If the evidence seems to be pointing to the fact that she never obtained citizenship, Congress is failing to do their job. If we’ve had a foreign nationalist occupying a seat in Congress, that’s a problem”
As was reported, Kern’s efforts to uncover the truth about Omar’s citizenship found both the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services unable to find a record to prove the congresswoman’s late father was ever naturalized, as Omar was accused of changing her birthdate to present as a minor for the purposes of naturalization.
In the wake of the raid on her home, the congresswoman has enlisted the representation of Biden’s personal attorney while President Donald Trump has called on her to resign from Congress while digging at Omar’s response to an interview question about the alleged marriage fraud.
“So, when asked whether or not she married her brother,” remarked Trump during a rally, “she said, ‘Not to my knowledge.’”
