A Withdrawn Immigration Application, Corrected Tax Returns, And ‘Military Officer’ Father: Ilhan Omar Evidence Piles Up

Update (1218ET): The New York Post has published additional reporting on the disputed allegations surrounding Omar’s marriage to Ahmed Elmi, highlighting a British marriage certificate alongside previously reported financial records and witness claims.

Omar denies wrongdoing, and the material presented does not establish that Elmi is her brother or that their marriage was fraudulent. The Post’s cited evidence and allegations include:

• Family records and names: A 1997 British marriage certificate obtained by the Post identifies the father of Leila Nur Said, whom the paper describes as believed to be Omar’s sister, as Nur Said Elmi. Sources told the paper this was another name used by Omar’s father. The Post also cites the federal filing identifying Omar as “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.” His profession is listed as “military officer.”
• A shared address: Omar and Elmi listed the same Columbia Heights, Minnesota, address on their 2009 marriage application. Ahmed Hirsi, the father of Omar’s children, also used that address for a business license, according to the Post.
• Overlapping relationships and tax filings: Omar had her third child with Hirsi in 2012 while legally married to Elmi. The Post also cites joint tax returns Omar filed with Hirsi for 2014 and 2015, before her divorce from Elmi was finalized in 2017. Those returns were subsequently corrected.
• A withdrawn immigration application: Citing the Washington Post, the paper reports that Elmi withdrew a marriage-based green-card application in 2019 after immigration authorities requested additional evidence concerning the marriage.
• A disputed witness account: The Post revisits a Somali blogger’s 2020 claim to the Daily Mail that Omar had introduced Elmi as her brother and said he needed immigration “papers.” This remains a witness allegation, rather than documentary proof of kinship or fraud.

Omar’s late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, served as a colonel in Somalia’s army under dictator Siad Barre. A 2020 Sahan Journal obituary, citing a fellow former officer, reported that he commanded a regiment during the 1977–78 Somali–Ethiopian War and remained in the military until the regime collapsed in 1991. The New York Post has since quoted historian Mohamed Haji Ingiriis accusing him of helping sustain Barre’s dictatorship and misrepresenting his background when seeking refugee status in the United States. Barre’s forces committed well-documented atrocities against Isaaq civilians, including bombardments of Hargeisa and attacks on fleeing civilians. However, those atrocities and Nur’s military rank do not establish his individual culpability: the reporting cited does not demonstrate that he personally ordered or participated in a specific atrocity.

The New York Post has obtained and published an official copy of Ilhan Omar’s sister’s marriage certificate. It describes their father as “Nur Said Elmi,” and his profession as a “military officer. More evidence that she is not who she says she is. https://t.co/Y7ieXWR73F

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) October 23, 2026

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Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times,

President Donald Trump on Oct. 22 urged Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to resign from her congressional role over allegations that she used a fake name to enter Congress.

This followed a motion filed by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro on Oct. 21 that referred to Omar as “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.” The filing was related to a federal search warrant for the congresswoman’s home.

“It was just revealed that Ilhan Omar’s name is not Ilhan Omar, the one she used to get elected and sworn into Congress, but rather, it’s an entirely different name, Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, and that her last name is, incredibly, also the exact name of her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the person they said she married and had children with,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

Omar addressed allegations she married her brother during a recent interview with MS NOW’s Chris Hayes, calling the claims insane. When asked whether any of the allegations had a “kernel of truth,” she answered: “Not to my knowledge.”

“Somebody put in there that, you know, he had to have been my brother or something to that effect,” she said in the interview, adding that it started on a Somali blog, without elaborating.

Omar has been married to Tim Mynett since 2020.

Trump said Omar should resign from Congress immediately, adding that she would “not be legally allowed” to remain a member of Congress from this point forward because she used “a fake name to be sworn in.”

“When asked whether or not she married her brother, she said, ‘Not to my knowledge.’ In other words, she somehow didn’t know?” Trump said.

Omar’s spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.

Omar, a native of Somalia, moved to the United States with her family in the 1990s amid a civil war. She became a state representative in Minnesota in 2017, and a U.S. representative in 2019.

Federal agents searched the congresswoman’s home in Washington on Oct. 12 as part of a criminal probe into allegations of possible immigration fraud. Federal officials have provided few details about what led to the investigation.

Omar, who is seeking a fifth term in the House of Representatives in the midterm elections, has strongly denied immigration fraud allegations.

House Democratic leaders have said that the search was politically motivated and criticized the Trump administration, noting the timing shortly before the Nov. 3 midterms.

“Now, less than 30 days until the midterm election, his violent mass deportation machine has descended upon the home of a duly elected Member of Congress and her family,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said in a statement.

Border czar Tom Homan told Fox News on Oct. 17 that investigators have a strong case in their ongoing probe of Omar.

He indicated that Omar could be stripped of her U.S. citizenship and deported if the immigration fraud allegations against her are proven to be true.

“Of course, if you lie during the naturalization process, there is a process to denaturalize somebody. We’ve done it before. It’s a long, tedious process, but it’s been done before,” he said.