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Either Ilhan Omar Lied About Her Age In Her Autobiography, Or She’s Lying Now

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27.10.2026

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Either Ilhan Omar Lied About Her Age In Her Autobiography, Or She’s Lying Now

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The autobiography written by Rep. 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.

Ilhan Omar — or Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, as U.S. government documents identify her — has claimed that her birthday is Oct. 4, 1982, 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.

“I 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,” Elmi said in a chapter called “War: 1989-1991, Mogadishu, Somalia.” 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........

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