Toki Olowo
Senior Supervising Attorney
Overview
Prior to joining Akula & Associates, Toki Olowo was a supervising attorney at Badmus Law Firm, PLLC. Her practice consisted primarily of employment and business related immigration matters, representing employers and their employees before the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Labor, Department of State, and various state and federal agencies with immigration oversight.
Ms. Olowo has experience with employment-related temporary worker petitions for H-1B professional worker visas, O-1 extraordinary ability visas, and others. She has processed countless two year foreign residency waiver applications for physicians, and permanent residence (green card) applications based upon labor certification, extraordinary ability, national interest waiver, and outstanding researcher.
Her clients included universities, hospitals, hospitalist groups, and other business entities. Ms. Olowo also has experience is processing permanent family-based immigration petitions, Naturalization, and DACA applications.
While in law school, Ms. Olowo held various positions which included an internship with Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas, Waxahachie where she handled landlord/tenant disputes, and family law cases. In addition, Ms. Olowo was a Research Assistant to a distinguished professor where she researched national and international laws of different countries such as Canada, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Ms. Olowo’s background and work experience encouraged her to enter the field of immigration law.
Professional Affiliations
- American Immigration Lawyers Association “AILA”
- Member State Bar of Texas
- Dallas Bar Association
- Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
- J.L. Turner Legal Association
- Texas Young Lawyers Association.
Speaking Engagements
- "US Employment Options for Foreign Students and Immigration Updates" at University of Texas Arlington, November 05, 2021
- Jupiter Gardens Events Center, Immigration Workshop/Proposed Path to Citizenship- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and Advance Parole, March 27, 2013
- Immigration Reform-Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and Advance Parole, March 23, 2013
- DREAMers Immigration Workshop-Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Advance Parole and Legalization, February 20, 2013
- DREAMers Immigration Workshop-Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), October 20, 2012
A Reputation of Excellence Our Success
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"They are very helpful and reasonable"They are very helpful and reasonable. They have done my E2 visa and renewals for 3 times without any problem and they go out of the way to help you. Thank you team of Akula associates.- Faisal F.
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"They have been responsive to all our queries and successfully handled our cases"My Experience with Akula for my Cases (personal and business both) has been excellent- S B.
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"Timely response, dedication towards the work"
We are an IT consulting firm. Kavitha helped us to get critical H1 case approvals and saved employees from running out of status which leads them to travel to their home country permanently. Timely response, dedication towards the work, having proper immigration knowledge, solving cases with logical thoughts, and the best team are the positives. Thanks!- Zuven Technologies -
"Great Law firm competent and professional"We are glad to be their clients and hope to continue the relationship as we grow.- Arun S.
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"Stellar Service"Wow, what an amazing experience I had with Akula & Associates. Kavitha Akula and her assistant Christie were 100% top-notch with everything they did from start to finish on my employment-based Green Card. I would HIGHLY recommend this law firm, they are the best!- Reddy
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"Incredibly attentive and their knowledge of immigration is vast"Akula & Associates, team of lawyers dedicated to helping with all areas of immigration, are incredibly attentive and their knowledge of immigration is vast. I honestly thank you from the bottom of my heart, thank you Akula & Associates team.- Sravanthi J.
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"A professional team worthy of trust!"Swati and attorneys Katrina and Ashley made a long and complex process completely bearable- Lenny M.
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"Kavitha is the best immigration attorney in the entire country."Kavitha is the best immigration attorney in the entire country. We chose Kavitha to represent us after I met her and realized how very knowledgeable she is. She and the firm provided great service, were very professional and used technology very well. I just wanted to say, THANK YOU for a job well done; you are great Kavitha!!!- Sateesh