Pilkington Immigration
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Pilkington Immigration helps individuals, families and businesses with immigration law in five countries: Canada, the United States, Germany, Mauritius and Nigeria. Its offices worldwide number more than 50, and the main one is at 55 Wyndham Street North in Guelph, Ontario.
A. Joseph Maloney, a Canadian lawyer and U.S. attorney, is the managing partner and is called to the bar in Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Gilbert Pilkington is a retired U.S. attorney.
You'll find licensed immigration lawyers, attorneys and consultants on the team, and they're committed to accuracy, compliance and responsive service. Yosheel B. Bangaroo holds calls in England and Wales, Mauritius and Ontario, while Punam Kumar is a foreign legal consultant licensed by the Law Society of Ontario to take on U.S. immigration matters.
Practice areas
Canadian immigration, appeals and Federal Court
Helen Fiallos, a partner and senior licensed immigration consultant, oversees most of the firm's Canadian temporary and permanent residence work. Canadian work also takes in refugee claims and appeals, Group of 5 sponsorship, sponsorship appeals, mandamus applications and rural and northern immigration. Bangaroo's focus has included Federal Court judicial reviews and appeals, and permanent residence and citizenship cases at the Immigration Appeal Division.
U.S. immigration
Margaret Wilson, a senior U.S. attorney and partner who works from the Orlando office, concentrates on inadmissibility, family cases and employment immigration along the Northern Border. Mayra Rodriguez heads a family-based immigration section in Kissimmee, Florida, Alexis Lee handles U.S. business visas and inadmissibility from Vaughan, and the firm also guides organizations through immigration matters involving their employees.
German immigration
Kerstin Hewel was called to the bar in Germany after passing the state law exams in Hanover in 1992 and Magdeburg in 1996. The German side of the practice includes passports, both first applications and renewals.
Mauritius residency
Bangaroo is also the dual-qualified partner for the firm's offshore office and practises Mauritius law. Mauritius work covers investor programs, spousal sponsorship, retirement visas and temporary visas.
Nigeria
Aderinmola Utake is licensed in both Ontario and Nigeria. In Nigeria, the practice goes past immigration into intellectual property, employment, corporate work and government business, including representation before bodies such as the Nigerian Immigration Services, the Nigeria Investment Promotion Commission and the Corporate Affairs Commission.
Good to know
Wheelchair accessible
LGBTQ+ friendly
Free parking
Virtual appointments
By appointment
In-person servicesMilestones & recognition
- October 2017: the firm announced a new office in St. Catharines.
- June 2018: a Mississauga office opened.
- February 2019: three Alberta offices opened, in Calgary, Red Deer and Edmonton.
- August 2019: offices in Regina and Saskatoon were announced.
- January 2020: the firm announced British Columbia offices serving Vancouver, Surrey and Richmond.
- August 2020: five more B.C. communities (Abbotsford, Kamloops, Nanaimo, Prince George and Victoria) got Pilkington offices, followed within days by Sarnia and by an office in Wilmington, Delaware.
- 2023: Margaret Wilson, active on committees of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, contributed to the fifth edition of The Consular Practice Handbook.
- April 2026: Helen Fiallos, with the firm since 2020, became a partner.
In the community
- Managing partner A. Joseph Maloney has served as chair of the Guelph Sports Hall of Fame.
Affiliations & connections
- American Immigration Lawyers Association: Pilkington Immigration is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
- Sports Lawyers Association: Managing partner A. Joseph Maloney is a member of the Sports Lawyers Association.
- Guelph Chamber of Commerce: Pilkington Immigration appears in the Guelph Chamber of Commerce member directory at its Wyndham Street North address.
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This firm’s lawyers at a glance
- Law schools
- University of Tulsa (2), John F. Kennedy University School of Law 3 of 4 lawyers
- Languages on the roster
- English, French
Who handles what
Offices 36
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The neighbourhood
In May 2015 the firm announced that its Guelph office was now in the Quebec Street Mall. That building's main entrance is at 55 Wyndham Street North, looking onto the corner of Quebec and Wyndham at St. George's Square. Quebec Street east of Wyndham was closed between 1980 and 1984 to build a mall that opened in 1984 as an Eaton Centre, and the part that survived reopened in 2003 as Old Quebec Street Shoppes & Office Suites.
Shops fill the ground level, with offices and medical space upstairs, and visitors can park in the attached West Parkade. Meetings at the Guelph office run Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 5:00, by appointment.
Frequently asked questions
- Does Pilkington Immigration handle immigration for athletes and coaches?
- Pilkington Immigration's managing partner, A. Joseph Maloney, takes on immigration work for athletes and coaches. Maloney's practice also covers waivers, work permits, permanent residence and citizenship applications on both the U.S. and Canadian sides.
- When does Pilkington Immigration think a mandamus application to the Federal Court makes sense?
- Filing for mandamus just because a file has slipped a little past the posted processing time isn't advisable, but once more than a year has gone by, it's a useful tool. In that situation a Pilkington lawyer asks the Federal Court of Canada to have a judge review the stalled application, backed by written legal submissions.
- Can Pilkington Immigration help a French-speaking skilled worker get a Canadian work permit without an LMIA?
- Yes. Yosheel B. Bangaroo, the firm's officially bilingual lawyer, has focused on business immigration that includes LMIA-exempt work permits and French-speaking skilled workers. Under the C16 exemption, a skilled worker with French and a job offer can apply for a work permit directly, so the employer doesn't have to go through an LMIA first.
- Does Pilkington Immigration take German restitution and re-naturalization claims?
- Yes. German citizenship claims on constitutional or restitution grounds are among its services, and it also handles re-naturalization for people inside or outside Germany.
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