The missing immigration records on Rep. Ilhan Omars dad that may have prompted the raid on her DC home

WASHINGTON — Ilhan Omar’s dad, Nur Omar Mohamed, has no official record of being a naturalized US citizen, according to documents obtained by a Minnesota activist in 2023 — undermining Omar’s legal claim to citizenship by way of family relations.The documents show that a US Citizenship and Immigration Services information officer conducted a “diligent search” but found “no record” relating to Nur Omar Mohamed or other variants of his name such as Nur Said Elmi Mohamed.AJ Kern, who ran against Omar in a 2022 Democratic primary, had requested information about the father’s citizenship status during her run for Congress but only received an answer back in September 2023.The disclosure complicates claims that Omar became a citizen as a 17-year-old in 2000, when she has said that her father became a naturalized citizen.“She was claiming derivative citizenship,” Kern told The Post in a phone interview Tuesday, before claiming that Omar may have lied about her age to do so and could have been 18 years old at the time.State and federal forms to run for Congress rely on candidates attesting to their citizenship status under penalty of perjury, and Omar has repeatedly stated that she is a US citizen.One of the documents obtained by Kern shows a June 2018 affidavit of candidacy, signed by Omar and submitted to the Minnesota secretary of state’s office, that affirms the Minnesota Democrat was “a citizen of the United States.”“I was born in Somalia and I was about 8 years old when the civil war happened and then we fled and lived in a refugee camp for four years in Kenya,” Omar told The Intercept months later in a September 2018 interview.“And so, we lived in that refugee camp in Mombasa, Kenya for four years and then in 1995 got the opportunity to resettle here in the U.S.and I actually started out in Arlington, Virginia, so not that far away from Capitol Hill, and then eventually moved to Minnesota when I started high school,” she added.Oma...