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Allegations that Ilhan Omar married her brother to obtain immigration benefits, and the subsequent investigations and fact-checking.
The allegation that Representative Ilhan Omar married her biological brother has circulated since 2016 but remains unproven: Omar did marry Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009 and divorced in 2017, but indepe...
entered into marriages to aid immigration for a relative have circulated since at least 2018 and have prompted media reports, congressional requests and partisan demands for subpoenas, but the sources...
The central official and journalistic determinations about the long-running allegation that Representative Ilhan Omar married her brother are consistent: no authoritative investigation has produced ev...
Mainstream fact‑checkers and several news analyses have repeatedly found the core claim—that Ilhan Omar married her brother to obtain U.S. citizenship—unsupported by available evidence, even as conser...
Fact‑checking organizations have repeatedly examined ’s marital history — including claims she was married to two men simultaneously or that she married a brother to help him obtain U.S. residency — a...