Alex Piletska
Alex is a Senior Associate solicitor at Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law, a specialist UK immigration firm where she has worked since 2025. She undertakes a wide range of immigration work, including personal and family immigration and nationality, business immigration applications, appeals and Judicial Review.
Alex studied English at the University of Cambridge and Cognitive Psychology at the Open University, before completing an MSc in Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex in 2014. She completed her GDL at the University of Sussex in 2016 and her LLM/LPC at the University of Law in 2020. Alex previously worked at Turpin Miller LLP from 2017 to 2025, where she qualified as a solicitor in August 2020. Alex was promoted to Joint Head of the Private Immigration team before leaving to join Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law in September 2025.
She is a contributor to Lexis and serves on the Q&A panel. Alex is a co-founder of the award-winning Ukraine Advice Project UK, a non-profit initiative set up to link qualified lawyer volunteers to Ukrainians affected by the conflict seeking free legal immigration and asylum advice. To date, the pro bono project won multiple awards, signed up more than 600 lawyers and helped more than 4,000 families escaping the conflict. Alex is ranked in Chambers & Partners for five years in a row and is a key lawyer in the Legal 500. She also serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law and is a Correspondent for Free Movement, where she has contributed regularly since 2019.
Alex has a particular interest in complex nationality cases, the Global Talent route, Adult Dependent Relative applications and technical procedural issues like validity, section 3C leave and variations.