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05/17/2010 2:44 pm 0 comments

Source: Jeanne Meserve and Mike M. Ahlers / CNN

Zeituni Onyango

Washington – President Barack Obama’s Kenyan aunt can stay in the United States, a U.S. immigration judge has ruled, ending a more than six-year legal battle over her status.

Judge Leonard Shapiro made the decision Friday, court officials told CNN.

Two government sources confirmed Monday that the ruling will give legal status to Zeituni Onyango, allowing her to remain in the country.

Onyango’s attorneys plan to hold a press conference at 2 p.m. in Ohio.

Onyango, who is the half-sister of the president’s late father, applied for political asylum in 2002 due to violence in her native Kenya. She was a legal resident of the United States at the time and had received a Social Security card a year earlier.

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