[5] She is the eldest child of Hwang Mien Lin, Hong Kong newspaper publisher [6] and Kuan Kuo Hua.

She took a temporary job as a legal and financial officer of the City of Buffalo, New York before moving to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1977, to join Central National Bank as a credit analyst in their management trainee program.

Onyango, half-sister of President Barack Obama's late father, had her immigration case leaked to the press just prior to her nephew's 2008 presidential election.

The immigration judge wrote in his decision that Onyango faced "great risk…" in her home country from those "…who oppose President Obama's politics and/or his ethnicity, which the Respondent shares…" and so should be granted asylum.

[15][16][17] Wong and her law partner, Scott Eric Bratton, represented Onyango Obama who faced deportation, and helped him obtain asylum rights and a Green Card.