“Ilhan Omar changed her birth year in official records.”

The claim that Representative Ilhan Omar's birth year was changed in official records is supported by documentation from the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library. Records indicate that for a period following her election to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2016, her biographical entry listed her birth date as October 4, 1981. In May 2019, after she had been elected to the U.S. Congress, her congressional staff contacted the library to request a correction, stating that the correct birth year was 1982. The library subsequently updated the record to October 4, 1982. This change has been reported by various news outlets, which cite internal library communications confirming the staff-initiated request. While the change itself is a matter of record, the context surrounding the discrepancy—often linked to questions regarding her immigration and naturalization history—remains a subject of political debate and investigation.