Guidy Mamann

Guidy Mamann is a lawyer and columnist who specializes in immigration law and policy. He immigrated to Canada in 1965 and settled in Toronto. He was employed as an immigration officer at the Pearson International Airport and graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1985. In 1987, he was called to the Ontario Bar and opened his immigration law practise. In 1995, he became the youngest lawyer in Ontario to be certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a specialist in immigration law.

His cases have drawn national and international attention i.e. BBC, CBC, CTV, Global, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, etc. He is regularly consulted by government, the media, and NGO’s on immigration law and policy. He is an active member of the Canadian Bar Association and the American Immigration Lawyers Association. His law firm, Mamann, Frankel, Sandaluk LLP has grown to become one of Canada’s largest and most respected immigration law firms.

He has hosted his own radio show and writes a syndicated column on immigration which appears each Monday in Toronto’s Metro News. He is the editor of the Migration Law Review and the Corporate Relocation Quarterly and is a regular contributor to the Canadian Newcomer Magazine, the Canadian Immigrant, and several community publications.

He is married and has 4 daughters.

Recent Items

Deaf Boy's Treatment Not Enough for Visa Officer
January 17, 2012
Should a family be denied permanent residence to Canada because they have a young boy who is deaf, even after the child has been fitted with a cochlear implant?

A very sour ending to a Sponsorship
August 25, 2011
When Charles decided to sponsor his parents to Canada, he never imagined it would turn out this way. He is close to his parents and they visit him here often since they don’t require a visa to enter Canada

Feds asking tough questions about the future of immigration
July 21, 2011
Federal Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is asking some pretty tough questions about the future of Canada’s immigration program.

Should a DUI conviction keep newcomers out of Canada?
July 15, 2011
It is easier for the government to avoid controversy and simply banish all those with DUI convictions. However, such an approach will have dramatic and unnecessary consequences for Canadian businesses.

Tories make changes to humanitarian policy
May 31, 2011
Canada’s humanitarian and compassionate policy has just been completely rewritten in a new chapter in Canada’s immigration manual.

Poison pen letters come out of the shadows
March 29, 2011
The poison pen letter is frequently the weapon of choice for those who wish to sabotage someone’s immigration application. Circumstances have since changed and they now wish, to scuttle the applicant’s immigration plans.

Conservative party's immigration record misses the mark
March 09, 2011
Even though our population is growing, we are bringing in fewer spouses and partners, fewer sons and daughters, and fewer parents and grandparents.

Converting from ‘visitor' to 'student' not always possible
March 07, 2011
Why is the law such that I need to leave Canada and re-enter as a student? Can't the study permit simply be processed from within Canada using the forms available online?

Banner year doesn’t make a "pro-immigrant" government
March 01, 2011
Two weeks ago, the Tories surprised the nation when they announced that they had set a fifty-year record by landing a whopping 280,636 new immigrants in 2010. However, being "pro-immigrant" is not just about numbers.

Missed Connections with Ottawa
February 24, 2011
When our immigration department doesn’t receive a response to an email, it can and will summarily refuse an application even though the applicant may not have received the transmission in question.

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