Rep. Ilhan Omar’s, D-Minn., immigration history is again under scrutiny following a federal search of her Washington, D.C., residence. New reports say investigators have subpoenaed relatives, while congressional staff previously asked that the birth year in several public biographies be changed.
Federal investigators subpoenaed Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor, and at least one other person in her family’s circle as part of an inquiry into possible fraud and false statements in immigration documents, The New York Times reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the investigation.
Fox News also reported that subpoenas were issued to multiple members of Omar’s family.
Separately, the New York Post reported that Omar’s congressional staff contacted the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library in May 2019 and requested that her birth year be changed from 1981 to 1982. The discrepancy has been cited by a former political opponent who has challenged Omar’s account of how she obtained U.S. citizenship.
The reports emerged a day after agents with Homeland Security Investigations searched Omar’s home in Washington, D.C.
Two sources familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital that the search was connected to an ongoing criminal investigation involving Omar’s immigration paperwork.
The Justice Department confirmed that agents carried out a judicially authorized search warrant as part of an active federal criminal investigation.
Omar has consistently denied any immigration-related wrongdoing and accused the Trump administration of directing federal law enforcement against her for political reasons.
“I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement,” Omar, a member of the progressive congressional group known as “The Squad,” wrote Monday on X.
“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,” she added. “I will not be silenced.”
Emails reviewed by the Post indicate that Omar’s congressional staff contacted the Minnesota library several months after she joined Congress to seek a correction to the birth year listed in its records.
“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 library’s director wrote in a May 24, 2019, email, according to the outlet.
The director also wrote that Omar’s staff were coordinating with Wikipedia, the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress and other reference sources to update the year.
The library’s original listing, however, was not based on a birth certificate or other primary documentation. In a separate email cited by the Post, the director said the 1981 date had been taken from other reference materials and added “without documentation.”
The conflicting birth years do not, by themselves, prove that Omar falsified immigration records. Neither report established that the biography change was connected to Monday’s search.
Omar has said that she became a U.S. citizen through her father’s naturalization in 2000, before reaching the age of 18.
“I became a citizen actually before I turned 18,” she told The Intercept in a September 2018 interview, according to the Post. “My father became a citizen and so I got my citizenship through that process.”
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AJ Kern, who unsuccessfully challenged Omar in the 2022 Democratic primary, has questioned whether she was still a minor when her father became a citizen, the Post reported.
Kern told the outlet that she filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission and brought a lawsuit seeking documentation of Omar’s citizenship. A state judge dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction, according to the Post.
The Times reported that investigators are examining the immigration history of Omar’s family, including whether her late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, provided false information or left out relevant details on immigration forms before becoming a U.S. citizen.
The precise scope of the investigation remains unclear. Grand jury subpoenas seek evidence and do not, by themselves, mean the recipients are suspected of wrongdoing.
The Times reported that previous federal inquiries into Omar’s immigration history have not resulted in charges.
The immigration developments also come as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro disclosed a separate examination of Omar’s financial disclosures.
Speaking Tuesday on Fox News’ “America Reports,” Pirro said her office was investigating the filings, which previously showed that the combined reported value of two businesses tied to Omar’s husband, Tim Mynett, climbed from approximately $15,000 to $51,000 in 2023 to between $6 million and $30 million in 2024.
Fox News Digital previously examined the disclosures involving eStCru LLC, a California winery, and Rose Lake Capital LLC, a Washington-based venture capital firm.
Omar amended the filings in April, reducing the couple’s combined reported assets to between $18,004 and $95,000. Her office said the original disclosures failed to properly account for business liabilities. Financial disclosures list assets in broad ranges and do not establish an exact net worth.
In September, the Office of Congressional Conduct voted 5-1 to recommend that the House Ethics Committee dismiss misconduct allegations related to the disclosures, finding no substantial reason to believe Omar reported false or incomplete information in violation of federal law or House rules.
That review is separate from the federal investigation Pirro described. It remains unclear whether the financial inquiry is connected to Monday’s search.
President Donald Trump renewed his criticism Tuesday in a statement shared by the White House on X, questioning the change in Omar’s financial filings.
“America wants answers, and we want them, NOW!” Trump said.
Vice President JD Vance, who previously accused Omar of immigration fraud, said Tuesday that he had no advance knowledge of the search, according to the Times.
“If there’s a real case there, we’re going to follow the facts,” Vance said. “If there’s not a real case there, then we won’t.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the Justice Department, Omar’s office and the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Amanda Macias contributed to this report.