Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law

UK immigration

Senior Associate

Alex Piletska has a wealth of experience in immigration and is able to advise on a wide range of cases, including family immigration and human rights applications, as well as skilled work immigration.  She has a particular interest in complex citizenship and nationality cases, Adult Dependent Relative applications, Judicial Review and technical procedural issues like validity and variations.

Alex is a co-founder of the Ukraine Advice Project UK, which linked qualified lawyers to Ukrainians affected by the conflict seeking legal immigration and asylum advice. To date, the project won multiple awards, signed up more than 600 lawyers and helped more than 4,000 families escaping the conflict.

She is ranked an “associate to watch” in Chambers and Partners 2023, 2024 and 2025. She was also ranked as an EDI (‘Equality, Diversity and Inclusion’) Champion in 2023 and 2024 and has been mentioned as a key lawyer in a top ranked firm in the Legal 500 where she led the personal immigration department in 2024 and 2025 before joining Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law in 2025.

Law Society

Immigration Law Practitioners' Association

Partners Immigration

tech UK

BritishAmerican Business

French Chamber of Great Britain

German Chamber of Commerce in the United Kingdom

Australia-UK Chamber of Commerce

Following her English degree at the University of Cambridge, Alex was awarded a First in her Cognitive Psychology BA at the Open University, before completing an MSc in Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex in 2014. Alex was awarded a Merit in her Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) at the University of Sussex, where her freelance career writing on legal matters  began.  She finished a LLM Masters of Law at the University of Law in 2020 with a Distinction.