ROCHESTER, Minn. — Sahra Noor, the older sister of embattled Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., canceled a scheduled stop on her memoir tour because of a “family emergency” as scrutiny intensified following a raid on the congresswoman’s home.
Omar is facing a federal investigation into possible immigration fraud, along with a separate inquiry involving her financial disclosures. Noor had been scheduled to appear Thursday evening at the University of Minnesota Rochester.
Noor arrived in the United States as a refugee with Omar and other relatives during the 1990s. She was reportedly subpoenaed as part of the immigration investigation involving her sister.
According to her LinkedIn profile, Noor now lives in Nairobi, Kenya. She is traveling internationally to promote her newly released memoir, “Salt in the Snow: A Somali Immigrant Story.”
Fox News Digital contacted Noor for comment but had not received a response by the time of publication.
A flyer shared on Facebook by Rochester bookstore Garden Party Books listed the event for 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Intercultural Student Center on the University of Minnesota Rochester campus.
When Fox News Digital arrived, the venue was empty. The outlet had RSVP’d through a QR code included on the flyer and said it received no notice that the appearance had been canceled, postponed or moved to another location.
Garden Party Books told Fox News Digital that the appearance was called off because of a “family emergency” involving Noor.
The canceled appearance came as rumors circulated that Omar had left the United States after the raid earlier in the week.
Omar has not appeared publicly since Monday’s search. On Wednesday, her husband reacted sharply when asked outside the residence whether he would respond to claims that the congresswoman had fled the country.
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The event flyer identified Garden Party Books, the University of Minnesota Bookstores and the Rochester Public Library as “proud supporters” of the program.
It promoted Noor as a “poet, storyteller and health system leader” and characterized her memoir as an account of “migration, motherhood, grief and family.”
Noor’s website says the memoir officially debuted at a Nairobi bookstore event on Aug. 13, 2026. She also appeared at a literary festival in Cape Town, South Africa, in early September.
She is now continuing the tour across the United States.
Noor appeared in Minneapolis on Oct. 1, followed by an event at the University of Minnesota five days later. She held another gathering in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Oct. 7.
Her next listed appearance is scheduled for Oct. 23 at the Somali Community Cultural Innovation Hub in Seattle.
Agents from Homeland Security Investigations, the Department of Homeland Security’s primary investigative division, served a search warrant at Omar’s home beginning at approximately 6 a.m. Monday.
Fox News Digital reported Monday that the search was connected to an investigation into whether Omar or her late father, Nur Mohamed, provided fraudulent information on citizenship documents decades ago.
Two sources said the investigation could potentially result in the congresswoman’s denaturalization.
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that agents seized Omar’s phone, passport and computers during the search.
Omar has described the search as an “outrageous abuse of power” and called it an “unprecedented escalation in the weaponization of federal law enforcement to target political enemies.”