ILHAN OMAR’S CITIZENSHIP CLAIM COLLAPSES AS USCIS AND DHS CERTIFY NO NATURALIZATION RECORDS FOR HER FATHER
Official letters from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Department of Homeland Security state that no naturalization records exist for Ilhan Omar’s father, Nur Omar Mohamed, also known as Nur Said Elmi Mohamed. After a diligent search of name variations, both agencies certified the absence of any record that he ever naturalized as a U.S. citizen.
Omar has repeatedly stated that she became a U.S. citizen in 2000 at age 17 by deriving citizenship through her father after the family arrived as refugees from Somalia in 1995. She has said her father naturalized and that she obtained citizenship through that process before turning 18. Derivative citizenship for a minor depends on the parent having naturalized. The USCIS and DHS certifications of nonexistence of record directly contradict that narrative.
These documents, obtained through Freedom of Information requests by former congressional candidate AJ Kern and now circulating widely, have fueled an active federal investigation. Agents recently searched Omar’s Washington, D.C. home and seized her phone. The probe centers on potential false statements in immigration paperwork, including discrepancies in Omar’s reported birth year that could have made her ineligible as a minor, and questions about her father’s past military service in Somalia that might have affected his own eligibility for legal status.
Omar signed an affidavit of candidacy affirming she is a U.S. citizen. Yet the foundational claim she has made about how she obtained that status rests on a naturalization that official records say never occurred. If her father never naturalized, she could not have derived citizenship through him. That leaves open the question of whether she is a U.S. citizen at all, whether she was eligible to serve in Congress, and whether any laws or actions she advanced rest on a false premise.
The documents and the ongoing investigation demand answers. Citizenship is not a suggestion. Records either exist or they do not.
Sources: USCIS and DHS Certificates of Nonexistence of Record (2023) obtained by AJ Kern; reporting by the New York Post and Washington Post on the federal probe into Omar’s citizenship paperwork and family immigration filings.
