Just when you thought the controversy surrounding far-left Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) couldn’t get any more suspicious, another bombshell has emerged, and this time, it involves her date of birth and the citizenship records that could determine whether she legally obtained American citizenship.
According to an explosive new report from the New York Post, staff working for the Somali-born congresswoman reportedly arranged to have her official birth year changed from 1981 to 1982 in May 2019, months after she won her first congressional election in November 2018.
According to The Post, Omar’s birthdate had long been listed as October 4, 1981 in the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, on Wikipedia, and in major outlets including the BBC. That date remained in place throughout her time in the Minnesota House and into the early months of her congressional term.
Then, in May 2019, shortly after a political opponent’s video went viral questioning her age, Omar’s staff contacted the library and requested the year be changed to 1982.
An email from the library director, reviewed by the Post, states:
“On May 17, 2019, Library staff were informed by Rep. Omar’s congressional staff that her birth year was incorrect and requested that we change it to 1982.”
The director added that Omar’s team was simultaneously working to “correct” the year on Wikipedia and in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
The original 1981 listing, the library noted, had been entered because it was “widely available, in Wikipedia and the Biographical Directory, and so we added that birthdate without documentation.”
Ilhan Omar’s staff helped change her birthdate in the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library after she was elected to Congress in 2018. https://t.co/YjKWZiClL6
— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) October 13, 2026
That discrepancy is potentially significant.
Under immigration law governing derivative citizenship at that time, a child’s age could be a decisive factor in determining whether citizenship was automatically obtained through a naturalized parent.
Federal immigration law generally required qualifying conditions for derivative citizenship to be satisfied before the child’s 18th birthday.
If she was born in 1981, she would have been 18 or 19 in 2000, potentially making her ineligible for automatic derivative citizenship as a minor and requiring her to go through the adult naturalization process instead. Critics argue this raises the possibility of misrepresentation on immigration paperwork.
This revelation lands amid an active federal criminal investigation. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant at Omar’s Washington, D.C.-area home early Monday morning, seizing boxes of evidence.
The probe focuses on immigration documents completed by her late father when she was a child, with officials examining whether false statements were made that could support denaturalization proceedings.
Omar, meanwhile, has condemned the federal investigation as political retaliation by President Donald Trump’s administration.
Following Monday’s search, she issued a defiant statement:
“I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.
I will not be silenced.”
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