Ilhan Omar was so confused by marriage to brother she crossed out her own name twice on official application

Confused much? Rep.Ilhan Omar apparently didn’t know what her name was when applying in 2009 for a Minnesota marriage license to her alleged brother Ahmed Elmi, according to the document obtained by The Post.A certified copy from the Hennepin County, Minn., government shows that the Democratic congresswoman’s surname was initially written as Omar, before being crossed out and replaced with Elmi.

A final edit reverted it back to Omar.The revisions are potentially significant as the Justice Department investigates whether Omar fraudulently gained US citizenship in 2000 by failing to use her accurate legal name — and birthdate.The ongoing case builds on a probe into whether the Somalia-born politician committed immigration fraud by marrying Elmi, a British citizen who describes himself as gay.The Justice Department referred to Omar in a court filing last week as “Congresswoman Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.” A source familiar with the investigation previously told The Post that Omar is not the congresswoman’s “real” last name, meaning she was born with the last name of Elmi, just like her alleged brother-husband.The marriage certificate application — dated Feb.

12, 2009 — is a potentially significant piece of evidence, though not necessarily dispositive.Omar’s office did not respond to The Post’s requests for comment on the file.It’s unclear who filled out the application, but it appears to have been written with just one person’s handwriting.Unlike the Justice Department’s recent reference to Omar’s alleged true name, the initial revision was written as “Ilhan Omar Elmi.”An image of the marriage application has circulated online for years and appears to have been first published in August 2016 by the Minnesota outlet Alpha News.

It has until now largely gone untouched by major news outlets.Scott W.Johnson, a retired Minneapolis attorney who has been investigating Omar’s alleged immigration fraud for a decade,...