Rep. Ilhan Omar’s 2009 Minnesota marriage license application contains two changes to her surname, adding another strange wrinkle to allegations now under federal investigation. The certified Hennepin County document concerns her legal marriage to Ahmed Elmi, a British citizen alleged to be her brother.

The application initially listed the Democratic congresswoman’s surname as Omar. That name was crossed out and replaced with Elmi before another edit changed it back to Omar.

Dated Feb. 12, 2009, the document could prove significant as the Justice Department investigates whether Omar fraudulently obtained United States citizenship in 2000 by failing to use an accurate legal name and birthdate. The application alone is not necessarily dispositive.

The Justice Department identified her in a court filing last week as “Congresswoman Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.” A source familiar with the investigation previously told The Post that Omar is not the congresswoman’s real surname and claimed she was born with the surname Elmi.

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The marriage application asked whether the bride and groom were related through blood or adoption. The couple selected the “no” box, while the handwriting on the form appears to have come from one person.

It remains unclear who completed the application. Unlike the Justice Department’s recent reference to Omar’s alleged name, the first revision on the document reads “Ilhan Omar Elmi.”

An image of the application has circulated online for years and appears to have been published by the Minnesota outlet Alpha News in August 2016. According to The Post, major news outlets largely left the document untouched until now.

Image Credit: Hennepin County

Scott W. Johnson, a retired Minneapolis attorney who has investigated the alleged immigration fraud for a decade, called the document troubling. “Questions should be asked. She’s never answered them,” said Johnson, who previously served on the Alpha News board.

Johnson went further, claiming the marriage was fraudulent and entered for a fraudulent purpose. AJ Kern, a former Minnesota congressional candidate who examined Omar’s immigration records and disputed birthdate information, also said the evidence continues to accumulate.

“I think it’s pretty clear she married her brother and committed immigration fraud,” Kern told The Post. Kern said Congress would be failing its responsibility if evidence showed Omar never legally obtained citizenship and was a foreign national occupying a congressional seat.

Omar has broadly rejected the accusations as a racist conspiracy theory and politically motivated smear. Asked last week by MS NOW anchor Chris Hayes whether she married her brother, Omar answered, “Not to my knowledge.”

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President Trump has repeatedly criticized Omar publicly, calling her a “complainer” who is too eager to attack the United States government. Speaking Friday afternoon in the Oval Office, Trump said Omar “is not her real name.”

Federal officials raided Omar’s home on Oct. 12. The Justice Department began investigating in 2016, during President Barack Obama’s administration, whether Omar illegally married Elmi so he could obtain a green card.

The Biden administration closed that investigation in 2021, two years after Omar entered Congress. Authorities determined the alleged crime fell outside a five-year statute of limitations, and the FBI could not interview Elmi because he had returned to the United Kingdom.

Omar married Ahmed Hirsi in an Islamic ceremony in 2002 and had two children with him before legally marrying Elmi in 2009. Her divorce from Elmi was finalized in 2017, after she gave birth in June 2012 to a third child fathered by Hirsi.

She legally married Hirsi in 2018, filed for divorce one year later, and married Tim Mynett in 2020. The congresswoman has been married three times.

Questions also surround Omar’s birth year. Some records list Oct. 4, 1981, while others list Oct. 4, 1982, a discrepancy that could affect her claim that she became a citizen at age 17 when her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, was naturalized.

If the 1981 date is correct, Omar would have been of legal age when her father received citizenship and therefore ineligible for the minor benefit. Authorities are also investigating whether Mohamed improperly became a citizen.

Federal investigators are examining a potential conspiracy involving immigration fraud and false statements on government documents. Legal experts previously told The Post that ongoing acts, including misrepresenting a birthdate, could fall outside the statute of limitations applied to earlier alleged crimes.

Civil denaturalization carries no statute of limitations and could result in Omar’s deportation. For now, the altered surname, the disputed birthdate, and that awkward “Not to my knowledge” response leave the congresswoman facing questions she has yet to put to rest.

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