Managing Director
Vesna is a Senior Immigration Lawyer with over 25 years’ experience in immigration law. She worked in a private solicitor’s firm in Central London for over 10 years before establishing VC Legal (UK) in 2009. She practices in all areas of Immigration law including Nationality Law, EU Law, Convention of Human Rights and Points Based system.
With strong expertise, Vesna has been able to offer an extensive range of advice on complex immigration matters to corporate and individual clients.
Vesna specialises in advising companies on global mobility strategy and on all aspects of the sponsorship licence process and migrants’ relocation. In particular, she has developed expertise in Tier 2 applications for dentists, IT specialists and different artists within the film industry.
Vesna’s keen interest has always been family immigration and advising on strategies for joining family members in the UK. This led her to her be invited to take part in the Channel 4 TV show Rich House Poor House to discuss spousal visa issues.
Vesna’s experience and in-depth knowledge has contributed to VC Legal (UK) winning many successful appeals at the First-Tier and Upper Tribunal for nationals from: Angola, Armenia, China, Ghana, Iraq, Jamaica, Japan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lebanon, Malawi, Mongolia, Nigeria, Serbia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the Ukraine and many more. Vesna also carries out the most complex immigration work that requires managing cases and lodging Judicial Review claims to the High Court of Justice Administrative Court and, in such circumstances, she works closely with barristers from the Lamb Building Chambers and other chambers. Our published case is the Upper Tribunal judgment in Shebel (Entrepreneur: proof of contracts) [2014] UKUT 00216 (IAC) that now provides guidance in immigration law.
Vesna studied at the University of West London where she was awarded a CPD (Postgraduate Diploma in Law) in 1997. Vesna is a qualified lawyer within the Serbian jurisdiction system from 1986 when she obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade.
Vesna has been a member of the Immigration Law Practitioner’s Association since 1996 and is also a member of the Migration and Economic Subcommittee as well as the Family and General Subcommittee. She is a member of JCWI, the Free Movement group, and is registered with OISC at Level 3 to conduct Advocacy, Representation and Judicial Review Case management.
Vesna is a dual national (British-Serbian) and therefore has an in-depth interest in EU Law, Nationality and Citizenship issues. Over the years she developed expertise in Turkish Ankara agreement. She monitors closely all post Brexit immigration developments.
She speaks Serbo-Croat, French and German.