Multiple outlets report that U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar’s congressional staff sought changes to her official listed birth year in Minnesota records after she was elected. The New York Post, cited by other publications, says staff asked the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library to correct the birth year from 1981 to 1982 in May 2019, months after Omar was sworn into Congress.
According to accounts based on reviewed emails, the library director said the staff requested the change and were also working to update other references such as Wikipedia and the congressional biographical directory. Earlier listings—including the library at the time and several public sources—showed Omar’s birth year as 1981. The library later said her birth year is correct and that 1981 was incorrectly reported elsewhere.
Separate reporting referenced an ongoing federal investigation involving Omar and a court-authorized search of her Washington home. No charges were reported in the sources provided, and Omar has denied immigration fraud, while discussing the alleged raid as part of broader political targeting. The outlets do not agree on whether the birth-year issue is directly tied to the federal matter, but they broadly align on the existence of the Minnesota record correction request.
