Representative George Santos of New York has said consistently that his mother, Fatima Devolder, was working at her office in the South Tower of the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Even as he altered his official biography to remove other false claims, Mr. Santos’s account of ties to the tragedy remained.
But official immigration documents reviewed by The New York Times on Wednesday directly contradict that claim, too.
In an application for a visa to enter the United States filed in 2003, Ms. Devolder said that she had left the country for Brazil in June 1999 and had not returned since. In earlier paperwork filed in June 2001, three months before the attacks, Ms. Devolder said that she had been unable to return to the United States since 1999 because her green card had been stolen in Brazil.
A spokeswoman for Mr. Santos, who represents parts of Queens and Long Island, did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Mr. Santos’s apparently fabricated link to Sept. 11 marks yet another entry in a long list of falsehoods that he shared as he sought elected office. He attracted interest from federal and local investigators after The Times reported last month that he omitted details from financial disclosures and based his pitch to voters in New York on a series of lies about his real estate holdings, academic degrees and Wall Street career.
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