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Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., appears to prove she was an adult at the time she says her father obtained U.S. citizenship in 2000. Omar herself obtained citizenship on the basis of her reported status as a minor at the time, but statements in her book, as well as government records, indicate she was an adult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ilhan Omar \u2014 or Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, as U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/recap\/og-lookup\/?file_path=recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.297666\/gov.uscourts.dcd.297666.3.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">government documents<\/a> identify her \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/bioguideretro.congress.gov\/Home\/MemberDetails?memIndex=O000173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has claimed that her birthday is Oct. 4, 1982<\/a>, making her 17 years old for most of the year 2000. Claims in at least two parts of her autobiography strongly suggest, however, that her birthday is actually in 1981, making her at least 18 throughout 2000, and therefore not eligible to receive citizenship under the sponsorship of her father.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3409224765\" class=\"d-flex justify-content-center fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 fdrlst__b89e9-entity-placement\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was eight years old when civil war broke out in Somalia. One day everything was okay, and the next, there were bullets piercing not only buildings but also people,\u201d Elmi <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jimgeraghty\/status\/2114729142306381833?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> in a chapter called \u201cWar: 1989-1991, Mogadishu, Somalia.\u201d The claim that she was 8 in 1989 points to a birth year of 1981, meaning she was 18 or 19 in 2000 at the time of her naturalization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In another chapter called \u201cReturn: 2011-2012, Fargo, North Dakota, to Africa to Minneapolis, Minnesota,\u201d Elmi once again made claims that would give her a 1981 birth year, as opposed to 1982. During a three-month trip back to Somalia in 2011, Elmi <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/willchamberlain\/status\/2114764364209156140?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>, \u201cI was thirty years old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the references to a 1981 birth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/a-simple-question-what-year-was-ilhan-omar-born\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">do not stop<\/a> in her autobiography.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 2019 article in The Atlantic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2019\/02\/ilhan-omar-elliott-abrams-and-el-mozote-massacre\/582889\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> Elmi was \u201call of two months old when the December 1981 massacre took place\u201d in El Salvador. A 2019 BBC profile also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-47238450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> she was born \u201cthe youngest of seven siblings in Somalia\u2019s capital Mogadishu in 1981.\u201d A 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.letemps.ch\/monde\/ameriques\/ilhan-omar-jamais-foulard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">profile<\/a> in Swiss outlet Le Temps stated she was born in 1981. Dawn, a Pakistani news organization, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1444161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> she was 37 in November 2018, meaning she turned 19 in 2000, and that she was born in 1981.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Minnesota legislature\u2019s member page for Elmi currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrl.mn.gov\/legdb\/fulldetail?id=15470\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a> her birthday conforms with her claimed date: Oct. 4, 1982. But that page was <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190330180454\/https:\/www.leg.state.mn.us\/legdb\/fulldetail?id=15470\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">altered<\/a> from its 2019 version, which shows her birthday as Oct. 4, 1981.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2019 was also the year Elmi left the Minnesota legislature to become a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Library of Congress <a href=\"https:\/\/id.loc.gov\/authorities\/names\/no2019080398.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lists<\/a> her birthday as Oct. 4, 1981, but her congressional <a href=\"https:\/\/bioguide.congress.gov\/search\/bio\/O000173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">biography<\/a> says it\u2019s the same day in 1982.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The changes from 1981 to 1982 came around 2019 when Elmi\u2019s congressional staff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/rep-ilhan-omars-immigration-history-faces-new-scrutiny-federal-investigators-subpoena-relatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contacted<\/a> the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, as well as Wikipedia and the U.S. House recordkeepers, and requested that her birth date be changed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Minnesota library <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/fact-check-ilhan-omar-changed-210800482.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explained<\/a> to Snopes that it updated the records unquestioningly, stating, \u201cWe do not have supporting documentation, as the information was \u2018self-reported.\u2019 \u2026 The library does not independently verify birthdates before publishing or updating them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elmi is currently under <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/10\/25\/nyt-investigating-omar-is-authoritarian-but-prosecuting-trump-is-accountability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">investigation<\/a> for immigration fraud, and there is mounting evidence she married her brother as part of that fraud.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">   Breccan F. 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