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Claims that Ilhan Omar married a biological brother to obtain immigration benefits.
The central fact is undisputed: was legally married to from 2009 to 2017, a marriage recorded in documents . The persistent allegation that Elmi was Omar’s biological brother and that the marriage was...
No credible, verifiable evidence has ever proven that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother; fact-checkers and major investigations have treated the claim as unproven or lacking credible documentation, ...
Persistent allegations that Rep. Ilhan to obtain immigration benefits have circulated since her 2016 statehouse campaign and re-emerged periodically; multiple fact‑checking organizations and major new...
Public records show legally married in February 2009 and that marriage was legally dissolved in December 2017, after which Omar legally married in January 2018, records and reporting confirm . Reporti...
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...