WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
  • Rep. Ilhan Omar’s real name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a claim her office strongly denies.
  • Federal investigators are examining whether Omar or her father committed fraud while completing immigration paperwork.
  • Agents obtained Omar’s DNA and seized her phone and passport during an Oct. 12 search of her Washington residence.
  • Omar has not been charged with a crime, and prosecutors’ materials contain only allegations.
  • Former immigration judge Nathan Hansen said a disputed legal identity could call numerous government forms into question.

Two people familiar with the ongoing federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar told Fox News Digital that the Minnesota Democrat’s real name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi. One of those people was identified as a law enforcement source.

The disclosure comes as federal investigators examine whether Omar or her father committed fraud while completing her immigration paperwork. Omar has not been charged with a crime, and materials presented by prosecutors remain allegations.

On Wednesday, U.S. District Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro filed a motion seeking to keep the federal search warrant for Omar’s Washington, D.C., home sealed. Several media outlets had requested that the warrant be made public.

Pirro’s motion says the federal government has not finished executing the search warrant and argues that the materials should not yet be unsealed. The filing refers to the lawmaker as Congresswoman Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.

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Asked why the motion used the additional name, one source told Fox News Digital, “That's not her real name.” Multiple sources familiar with the investigation said Omar is not the congresswoman’s birth name.

A spokesperson for Omar’s office sharply disputed the report after publication. “This is completely false. Ilhan Omar is her real name,” the spokesperson said before attacking Fox News.

The spokesperson also pointed to Omar’s interview Wednesday night on MS NOW, where she faced questions about allegations that she married her brother. The spokesperson said Omar has repeatedly denied what the office described as a baseless conspiracy theory.

Federal agents searched Omar’s Washington residence on Oct. 12 as part of the investigation. Investigators obtained her DNA and seized her personal phone and passport during the raid, which occurred before dawn.

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Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor, was questioned by federal investigators last week in connection with the probe. Conservative personality Will Chamberlain posted Pirro’s motion on X and speculated that the Justice Department believes Omar is in the United States under a false identity.

Omar has publicly confirmed that she does not have a birth certificate. Her official U.S. House biography lists her birthday as Oct. 14, 1982, and says she was born in Mogadishu, Somalia.

According to Omar’s account, she arrived in the United States with her family in 1995 as refugees fleeing war-torn Somalia. She was a minor at the time.

Nathan Hansen, a former federal immigration judge from Minnesota, said a disputed legal identity could raise questions about a wide range of records.

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“You think of all the types of documents somebody like her might have filled out,” Hansen said. “There'd be federal student loan and student aid applications, maybe federal housing-related applications, maybe public assistance applications, passport applications, passport information and driver's license information, Real I.D. information [and] voting information.”

Hansen said someone who had lived an entire life under an alias could potentially face numerous criminal charges. “Sometimes they might say that that would be a wire fraud charge; they always add that one,” he said.

“And that's pretty broad. But, you know, a lot of these documents are sworn under penalty of perjury,” Hansen continued.

“If this is not, like, a real legal name, it's got some legal backing to it that every type of government form she's filled out in her entire existence might be called into question,” Hansen said.

Omar represents Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District and has long faced allegations that she married her brother for immigration purposes. In 2009, she legally married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, and the pair split in 2017.

Omar was elected to Congress the following year. In 2020, she married her third husband, political consultant Tim Mynett.

During her first public interview since the raid, Omar sat down with MS NOW host Chris Hayes and again denied the marriage allegations, calling them “insane.” Hayes asked, “You’re not related to him at all?” and followed with, “There’s not some weird kernel of truth…?”

Omar has accused President Donald Trump and his administration of politically targeting her through the investigation. “This raid by Trump’s DHS is an outrageous abuse of power and an unprecedented escalation in the weaponization of federal law enforcement to target political enemies,” she wrote on X.

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Her statement declared that she had done nothing wrong and called the raid pointless. It also accused Trump of using inflammatory rhetoric against her and argued that no president should use federal power to intimidate political opponents.

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