Meet Ashley Dennis
Ashley Dennis
Ashley specializes in general, family, and employment-based immigration, including non-immigrant and immigrant visas. Her practice covers naturalization, adjustment of status, petitions to remove conditions on residence, fiancé visas (K-1), provisional unlawful presence waivers (I-601A), applications for permission to reapply for admission (I-212), waivers of grounds of inadmissibility (I-601), and U nonimmigrant status.
She represents victims of domestic violence, surviving family members including widows and widowers, special immigrant juveniles, and Dreamers, as well as employers seeking temporary workers, individuals of extraordinary ability, artists, and entertainers.
Ashley is a Dallas native and graduate of Duke University. Before earning her law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School, she worked as a project manager in the financial services industry. While in law school, Ashley participated in the Vanderbilt Intellectual Property & the Arts Clinic, interned with a Nashville-based immigration firm, clerked at the American Civil Liberties Union, and served as a research assistant. She partnered with Nashville organizations on emergency response plans for immigrant communities and completed the Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps JD program, earning the Damali K. Booker Award for legal activism and the Pro Bono Service Award.
After law school, Ashley worked for a Hawaii state agency monitoring federal fair housing and regulatory compliance, researching amendments to state administrative rules, and drafting agency policies - receiving an Award for High Standards of Excellence for her role managing a complex legal action plan.
Prior to joining Akula & Associates, Ashley represented clients in family court matters, including divorces and child custody, and represented individuals in removal proceedings before the Executive Office for Immigration Review and the Board of Immigration Appeals. She has extensive experience representing clients pursuing immigration options following criminal convictions, negative encounters with Customs and Border Protection, and removal orders.