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- Dutch
- English
- French
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Jana is a Senior Associate at Fragomen’s Belgium office, where she assists with a range of Belgian applications, including nationality, family reunification, student permits and work permits. Jana has more than seven years of experience litigating before Belgian and European courts and assisting with a wide array of immigration-related cases, including asylum requests, humanitarian visas, citizenship, family reunification applications and sham marriage investigations.
Prior to joining Fragomen, Jana was a Partner at a law firm. She also held a client manager role, where she served as a main contact, worked with associates to handle their cases and prepared legal advice, appeals and requests.
In 2015, Jana was a law clerk for a judge of the African Court for Human and People’s Rights.
Jana has been a teaching assistant at the Catholic University of Leuven since 2021, where she focuses on human rights law.
Jana’s pro bono experience includes volunteering at the Antwerp Bar Association Immigration helpdesk and working on numerous pro bono cases.
Jana speaks Dutch, English and French.
Education
- Free University of Brussels, Master of Laws in International and European Law, 2014
- Free University of Brussels, Bachelor of Laws, 2012
More from Jana
Experience
Litigated before the Court of Justice of the European Union in a preliminary ruling.
Accomplishments/Memberships
Bar admissions: Antwerp Bar Association
Dutch-Speaking Brussels Bar Association
Publications and lectures
Author, “CGRS' Incoherent Approach to Post-Factum Added Information.” Journal for Migration Law, 2023.
Co-author, “Vademecum Legal Guardian Service.” 2022.
Co-author, “Migration Law in 101 Answers.” Intersentia, 2019.
Guest lecturer, “Interpreters in the Asylum Procedure.” University of Antwerp, 2020 – present
Speaker, “Residence Procedures for Unaccompanied Foreign Minors.” Federal Public Service Justice, 2019-2022
Speaker, “Migration Law and Social Support of Migrants.” Erasmushogeschool Brussels, 2019-2022
Jana’s insights
March 26, 2024 | Webinar
November 14, 2023 | Conference