Alex Piletska

Solicitor, Turpin Miller

Alex is a solicitor at Turpin & Miller, an Oxford-based specialist immigration firm where she has worked since 2017. She undertakes a wide range of immigration work, including family migration, Points Based System 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 LPC at the University of Law in 2020, achieving a Distinction. She is currently working towards an LLM.

Alex is a regular contributor to Free Movement, a widely-read immigration and asylum blog.

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Conditions of permission to enter or stay in the UK

Practice notes

People granted permission to enter or stay in the UK for a limited period frequently have conditions attached to their permission. These can include restrictions on work, occupation, study or claiming public funds. This Practice Note explains the main conditions of permission, when and how they can be attached and the consequences of breach of conditions.

Immigration

On an application for indefinite leave to remain for a Tier 1 Investor, is supporting evidence for absences required or is a schedule of absences sufficient? Also, if an investor did not provide original source of funds as the investments were made in the 12 months prior to the initial application date, must they provide evidence of original source of funds?

Q&As

Immigration

Where a child is born in the UK to parents who have limited leave as refugees, and they have an application for leave in line which is pending, are they able to leave and return to the UK despite the application not having been granted?

Q&As

Immigration