Rep. Ilhan Omar apparently didn’t know what her name was when applying in 2009 for a Minnesota marriage license to her alleged brother Ahmed Elmi, according to the document obtained by The Post.
uncertain
name → know → Post
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.
asserted
surname → certify → Elmi
A final edit reverted it back to Omar.
asserted
edit → revert → Omar
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.
asserted
Omar → investigate → name
The ongoing case builds on a probe into whether the Somalia-born politician committed immigration fraud by marrying Elmi, a British citizen who describes himself as gay.
asserted
who → build → himself
The Justice Department referred to Omar in a court filing last week as “Congresswoman Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.”
asserted
Department → refer → Elmi
The marriage certificate application — dated Feb. 12, 2009 — is a potentially significant piece of evidence, though not necessarily dispositive.
asserted
application → date → evidence
Omar’s office did not respond to The Post’s requests for comment on the file.
asserted
office → respond → file
It’s unclear who filled out the application, but it appears to have been written with just one person’s handwriting.
uncertain
it → ’ → handwriting
Unlike the Justice Department’s recent reference to Omar’s alleged true name, the initial revision was written as “Ilhan Omar Elmi.”
asserted
revision → allege → Elmi
An image of the marriage application has circulated online for years and appears to have been first published in August 2016 by the Minnesota outlet Alpha News.
asserted
image → circulate → outlet
It has until now largely gone untouched by major news outlets.
asserted
It → go → outlets
“Questions should be asked.
asserted
Questions → ask → ?
She’s never answered them,” said Johnson, who served on the board of Alpha News.
asserted
who → answer → News
The marriage was a fraudulent marriage, brazenly fraudulent,” he added.
asserted
he → add → ?
“They didn’t take it seriously.
asserted
They → take → it
It was entered into for a fraudulent purpose.”
asserted
It → enter → purpose
“I think it’s pretty clear she married her brother and committed immigration fraud,” Kern told The Post.
asserted
Kern → think → Post
The bigger issue is having a non-citizen in office, she said.
asserted
she → have → office
“If the evidence seems to be pointing to the fact that she never obtained citizenship, Congress is failing to do their job.
asserted
Congress → seem → job
If we’ve had a foreign nationalist occupying a seat in Congress, that’s a problem,” Kern said.
asserted
Kern → have → Congress
Omar has broadly denied the allegations as a racist conspiracy theory and a politically motivated smear, but when MS NOW anchor Chris Hayes asked her last week if she married her brother, she coyly answered, “Not to my knowledge.”
asserted
she → deny → knowledge
President Trump, meanwhile, has repeatedly attacked Omar in public remarks, describing her as a “complainer” who is overly keen on criticizing the United States government — and saying Friday afternoon in the Oval Office that Omar “is not her real name.”
asserted
Omar → attack → Office
Federal officials raided Omar’s home on Oct. 12.
asserted
officials → raid → Oct.
The Justice Department launched an investigation in 2016, under President Barack Obama, into whether Omar illegally married her brother to allow him to obtain a green card.
asserted
him → launch → card
She was at the time running for a seat in Minnesota’s legislature.
asserted
She → run → legislature
The probe was closed in 2021 by the Biden administration — two years after she entered Congress — after authorities determined the alleged crime was outside a five-year statute of limitations, meaning it would have had to have been charged in 2014 at the latest.
asserted
it → close → latest
The FBI also was unable to interview Elmi because he had returned to the UK.
asserted
he → interview → UK
Omar has been married three times.
asserted
Omar → marry → ?
She wed Ahmed Hirsi in an Islamic ceremony in 2002 and had two children with him.
asserted
She → we → him
She then legally married Elmi in 2009.
asserted
She → marry → 2009
Their divorce was finalized in 2017, after she gave birth to a third child fathered by Hirsi in June 2012.
asserted
she → finalize → June
She legally married Hirisi in 2018 before filing for divorce after just a year.
asserted
She → marry → year
She wed her current husband Tim Mynett in 2020.
asserted
we → we → 2020
Omar says she became a US citizen at the age of 17 when her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, was naturalized.
asserted
father → say → 17
Some records list Omar’s birthdate as Oct. 4, 1981, while others give the same date in 1982.
asserted
others → list → 1982
If the former date is accurate, Omar would have been of legal age at the time her father received citizenship and thus would have been ineligible for the minor benefit.
asserted
father → receive → benefit
Authorities are also investigating whether Mohamed improperly became a citizen.
asserted
Mohamed → investigate → ?
Although Omar cannot be criminally prosecuted if she unlawfully gained citizenship, there is no statute of limitations for civil denaturalization, which could lead to her deportation.
uncertain
which → prosecute → deportation
The Aporia
