CLEVELAND — Attorneys for President Barack Obama's African aunt said an immigration court granted her asylum, allowing her to stay in the United States.

Zeituni Onyango, the half-sister of Obama's late father, is from Kenya.

Her attorneys made the announcement today in Cleveland.

Onyango moved to the United States in 2000. Her first asylum request was rejected, and she was ordered deported in 2004. But she didn't leave the country and continued to live in public housing in Boston.

In February, she testified on her own behalf at closed proceedings in U.S. Immigration Court in Boston.