In 2002 she entered a religious marriage with Ahmed Hersi, with whom she has three children.

In 2002 she entered a religious marriage with Ahmed Hersi, with whom she has three children. He's now her current husband and they're legally married. In 2009 she legally married, so she had a religious marriage, but then in 2009 she had a legal marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British citizen. This is her alleged brother. In 2011 Omar says she and Elmi, the brother, separated, although they remained legally married for several more years. In 2017 she legally divorced Elmi, again the alleged brother. In 2018 she then legally married the guy she had the religious marriage to in 2002. And all of this is has led to questions about whether that legal marriage to Elmi in 2009 was to get him into the United States um as her husband. The claim first appeared on an online Somali community discussion forum called Somali Spot and was then picked up by Powerline, a conservative blog. They posted back in 2016, a reader has written to us to point out that the Somali website Somali Spot posted information suggesting her involvement in marriage and immigration fraud. The post knows that notes that she married this guy Hersi in 2002 in a religious ceremony. He's the father of her kids and blah blah blah. As soon as Omar married him, meaning Elmi, the alleged brother, he started university at her alma mater, North Dakota State University, where he then graduated in 2012. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Minneapolis where he was living in a public