IRISH television reporter Aine ni Ghallchoir has spoken of her joy that a priest-uncle who won a battle against deportation from the U.S. will be a guest at her wedding in Co. Donegal.Father Cathal Gallagher, 58, from Gweedore, Co. Donegal, said he plans to celebrate his victory by attending his niece's wedding next month.Gallagher, whose case was reported extensively in the Irish Voice, revealed recently that U.S. immigration authorities who wanted to deport him on July 1 have told him he can stay.They reopened his case on the eve of his scheduled deportation following a high-profile campaign by parishioners on the prairies in the Diocese of Sioux Falls, South Dakota."That the authorities agreed to review my case was in itself a wonderful breakthrough. But we thought it would take at least another six months before they would reach a decision," said Gallagher."Instead, they have already completed their enquiries, realized the initial error that caused the problem was of their doing and not mine, and I got a phone call at the weekend saying my green card is in the post."Gallagher has been almost 12 years in the U.S. following his transfer there after 22 years in Japan.But his status was never regularized and consequently he could not leave the U.S. for fear he would not be readmitted while his application for a green card was being processed."I couldn't go home, not even for special family events. Now I'm looking forward to attending my niece's wedding next month," he said.His niece ni Ghallchoir is a Belfast-based reporter with the Irish language TV station TG4. She will get married on August 23."It's brilliant that Uncle Cathal will be there. I'm the first of his nieces or nephews to get married and we were all hoping he could come," she said."But with the problems over his green card it looked for a while as if the best he would be able to manage would be to meet us during our honeymoon."At one stage the prospects of Gallagher avoiding deportation seemed so hopeless that the bishop of Sioux Falls appointed a new priest to his St. Thomas Aquinas parish."Since July 1 I don't have a parish. I don't know what's going to happen now. In fairness to the bishop and the new priest my return to the same parish is out of the question," Gallagher said."I've been kept quite busy standing in for and helping out priest friends. I said four Masses over the weekend so I imagine the bishop will have no problem finding something for me to do."