Toki Olowo

Senior Immigration 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

1. DREAMers Immigration Workshop-Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), October 20, 2012

2. DREAMers Immigration Workshop-Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Advance Parole and Legalization, February 20, 2013

3. Immigration Reform-Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and Advance Parole, March 23, 2013.

4. Jupiter Gardens Events Center, Immigration Workshop/Proposed Path to Citizenship- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and Advance Parole, March 27, 2013