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 Webber
Law Firm, LLC, is based in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota, and represents
clients throughout the United States and at U.S. consular posts worldwide. We
advise organizations and individuals on U.S. visa strategies and related issues.
Webber Law Firm is committed to the following:
For most matters, Webber Law Firm offers competitive fixed-rate fees. These fixed-rates offer an incentive for the firm to work efficiently with clients, and make it easier for clients to budget their use of legal services. AV-RATED Webber Law Firm has received an "AV" rating by Martindale-Hubbell, an organization which has been providing peer-review ratings of attorneys for over 100 years. It is estimated that only 18% of all lawyers ever obtain an "AV" rating. This rating means that other attorneys have determined our work "has reached the height of professional excellence," with substantive legal ability "very high to preeminent" and ethical standards "very high." ABOUT THE PRINCIPAL ATTORNEY, ROBERT P. WEBBER  The principal attorney at the Webber Law Firm is Robert P. ("Bob") Webber, an honors graduate of William Mitchell College of Law (St. Paul, MN), and Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL). He is licensed to practice law by the Supreme Court of Minnesota.
Prior to starting his own law practice, he practiced law at Myers Thompson P.A., a boutique immigration firm, and at Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, a major corporate law firm based in Minneapolis. While in law school, Bob served as a law clerk for Honeywell International, working on employment law and business ethics matters. Bob has extensive experience working with both large and small employers in all aspects of employment-based immigration, including H-1B visas, PERM labor certification applications, and L-1 visas for established companies and start-ups. He also has worked with individuals in a wide range of U.S. visa matters, from marriage-based cases to religious worker petitions to applications for U.S. naturalization (citizenship). MSP Publications, which owns Minnesota Law & Politics, Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine, and Twin Cities Business Monthly, has recognized Bob as both a "Rising Star" and "SuperLawyer". The legal publication, Minnesota Lawyer, named Bob one of the top 10 "Up & Coming Attorneys" of 2003. Bob is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), and has served as the Secretary and Treasurer of the Minnesota / Dakotas Chapter of AILA. He has also served as Chair of the AILA Minnesota / Dakotas Chapter's Business Immigration & Labor Certification Committee, which coordinates liaison meetings with the staff of the Minnesota state job service and leads discussions with immigration attorneys on various new developments in the law, including PERM. In 1999, he led efforts to increase funding at the state job service to facilitate faster processing of labor certification applications. These efforts led to passage of a state law related to labor certification funding. Bob is also a member of the New England Chapter of AILA, to better represent clients in that part of the country. In addition to AILA, Bob is a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA), the Hennepin County Bar Association (HCBA), and the Twin Cities Human Resources Association (TCHRA), an affiliate of the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM). He has served as the Legislative Coordinator and Chair of the MSBA New Lawyers Section, and as a member of the MSBA Executive Committee, which runs the association. He has spoken at several Continuing Legal Education (CLE) seminars on immigration-related topics and has also authored articles on immigration matters, including an article on immigration filing procedures and best practices in the AILA Annual Conference handbook. Bob lives in Chanhassen, with his wife, Carrie, and their daughter, Abigail. ABOUT ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY, PENNI A. FRANK 
Ms. Penni A. Frank joined Webber Law Firm in January 2006 as a full-time Associate Attorney.
She is now working on a part-time basis, telecommuting from her home in Kalamazoo, MI, where her husband is a graduate student.
Penni is a graduate of Hamline University School of Law (St. Paul, MN) and Bethel University (St. Paul, MN).
She is licensed to practice law by the Supreme Court of Minnesota.
Prior to joining the firm, she served as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Richard A. Zimmerman of the 9th Judicial District in Brainerd, Minnesota. While in law school, Penni gained experience in immigration law at a small St. Paul immigration law firm and a large downtown Minneapolis law firm. Penni has been a volunteer for Centro Legal and Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights. Penni handles cases in both employment-based and family-based immigration. In the area of employment-based immigration, she has worked on PERM applications, including responses to PERM audits issued by the U.S. Department of Labor, as well as immigrant visa and adjustment of status applications, including issues associated with "AC21 portability." In the area of family-based immigration, she has worked on fiancé and marriage-based green card cases, K-1 and K-3 visa processing at U.S. consulates abroad, and sponsorship petitions for parents and children. Penni has handled cases throughout the United States and the world for individuals seeking to obtain visas and green cards for family members. Penni also works with churches, interdenominational religious organizations, and missionaries on religious worker cases (R-1 visas) and naturalization (citizenship) applications utilizing special provisions of U.S. immigration law which provide for "fast track" U.S. citizenship to certain qualified individuals. She has handled a large number of INA 319(b) naturalization cases, for foreign-born spouses of U.S. citizen missionaries. Penni is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Michigan and Greater Chicago chapters. She is married and lives in Kalamazoo, MI, with her husband, Nick, and 2 sons, Callias and Jude. ABOUT ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY, WENDI KAO 
Ms. Yun ("Wendi") Kao is a full-time Associate Attorney at Webber Law Firm, LLC. She earned a J.D. and her M.B.A. from West Virginia University, a Bachelor's degree in Japanese Language and Literature from National Taiwan University, and has also completed graduate course work in Public Administration at American University in Washington D.C. She is licensed to practice law by the Supreme Court of Minnesota.
Wendi is fluent in written and spoken Mandarin Chinese, Hokkien (Taiwanese), and Japanese. Wendi has a special focus on employment-based immigration, working on H-1B and L-1 work visas as well as PERM labor certification applications, I-140 petitions, and related matters. She has worked on O-1 visa petitions for individuals with extraordinary ability in their field and with a number of immigrant entrepreneurs and foreign investors on U.S. visa matters, including those establishing branch offices or new subsidiaries in the United States. Wendi has experience on issues related to U.S. companies doing business in China who seek U.S. visas for PRC-based staff and provides support for the firm’s family-based immigration and religious worker cases. Wendi is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA), and Hennepin County Bar Association (HCBA). She and her husband attend the Evangelical Formosan Church of the Twin Cities (EFCTC). |