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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"We are blessed to have your team on our side"We strongly recommend Akula & Associates for your immigration needs.- Radhika K.
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"Always patient and resourceful."We could not have picked a more wonderful, professional team. Akula & Associates helped us with obtaining our green cards at every step. The team was always patient and resourceful, explaining every process and answering all questions. Cannot recommend them enough!- Quinton M.
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"First class service all round"Seasoned lawyers with a great ability to navigate all areas of immigration. First class service all round. Highly rate the professional expertise of Kate Brady in particular.- Martin G.
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"This firm was the ONLY firm that gave me hope"I want to thank Akula & Associates for helping me adjust my status. After seeing many law firms in the Dallas area, this firm was the ONLY firm that gave me hope. I was able to adjust my status in record time. I want to especially thank lawyer Kathy Brady for working hard on my case. She was very patient and hard working. She was the only one that gave me hope when many other lawyers didn’t. Thank you again!- Hilda M.
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"It has been a pleasure to work with The Akula & Associates team."It has been a pleasure to work with The Akula & Associates team. They have been very responsive and given us so much help working through a relatively new process for our company. They are now our go to company for employee immigration processing.- Karen B.
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"Toki Olowo, It was a pleasure working with you!"You were helpful, you have great knowledge and was always warm, guiding, encouraging me, always with your big smile- Claudia F.
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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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"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.