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Multiple reputable fact‑check and news outlets say there is no verified evidence that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her biological brother; the allegation resurfaced in 2025 after President Trump repeated l...
Ilhan Omar’s public timeline of marriages in Minnesota, as explained by her and reported by multiple outlets, begins with an informal faith-based marriage to Ahmed Hirsi in 2002, a legal civil marriag...
Multiple reputable fact-checks and news outlets report that the longstanding allegation that Rep. Ilhan Omar married a brother to obtain U.S. citizenship has no credible, conclusive evidence and has b...
Claims that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother to secure immigration benefits have circulated for years and resurfaced in 2025; multiple news outlets and fact-checking-style reporting say there is no...
Claims that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother date back to at least 2016 and resurfaced repeatedly through 2019–2025; multiple news outlets and independent fact‑checkers have investigated and found ...
Ilhan Omar was born in Somalia and is the youngest of seven children; her family fled the Somali civil war and settled in Minneapolis in the 1990s . Longrunning allegations that she married a brother ...
Somali-community accounts and long-running fact-checks show competing narratives about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s marital past: local reports and Omar’s campaign say she had an Islamic, informal marriage to Ah...
Minnesota investigators and federal officials cited a chronology of public records and overlapping marriage dates — Omar’s 2002 faith-based union with Ahmed Hirsi, a 2009 legal marriage to Ahmed Nur S...
State and federal probes conducted into Rep. Ilhan Omar’s 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi have not produced publicly disclosed criminal convictions; multiple fact‑checking outlets and news report...
Ilhan Omar’s public controversies tied to her personal life have revolved largely around long-running, widely circulated claims that she married a brother to commit immigration fraud, disputes over he...
News organizations investigating ’s marriages relied primarily on public records such as and certificates, voter and property records showing overlapping and shared addresses, state investigative docu...
Court records show Rep. Ilhan Omar filed for dissolution of marriage to Ahmed Hirsi in Hennepin County in October 2019 and that the marriage was later legally dissolved in Minnesota in April 2021, wit...
Allegations that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother to commit immigration fraud first surfaced in 2016 on Somali message boards and have been repeatedly revived by conservative outlets and public fig...
Investigators closed a recent inquiry into Rep. Ilhan Omar’s marital history after sources and prior fact-checking found no conclusive evidence that she married a brother; major fact-checkers includin...
Public reporting shows Ilhan Omar legally married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009, separated in 2011 and — according to multiple news outlets cited here — filed for and completed a legal divorce from Elmi...
Between 2002 and 2019, Hennepin County public records and contemporaneous reporting show a mix of legally filed marriage and divorce documents involving Ilhan Omar: a 2009 Hennepin County marriage cer...
Public records reported by multiple news organizations show Ilhan Omar legally married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in Minnesota in 2009 and that a divorce process or filing related to that marriage was record...
Allegations about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s immigration status and filing history have been floated publicly by former Trump officials, conservative outlets and Minnesota GOP operatives, but the publicly repo...
The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board’s report said investigators discovered that Rep. Ilhan Omar and Ahmed Hirsi filed joint federal tax returns for 2014 and 2015 at a time when,...
Minnesota investigators’ publicly reported work to date did not produce criminal charges against Rep. Ilhan Omar related to allegations about the timing or legality of her marriages; prior probes and ...