Wait, why did he leave? It's not like he'd get deported even if he got arrested, sure as hell wouldn't happen in California. Just continue working and have yo

Wait, why did he leave? It's not like he'd get deported even if he got arrested, sure as hell wouldn't happen in California. Just continue working and have your lawyers stall and get the Visa stuff handled. You won't be able to travel outside the states and then come back in until your paperwork is done but that shouldn't be a huge problem in the internet world we live in. Or have an investor sponsor you at one of their (most likely many) companies so you have a valid job that the government can't complain about. To be fair, the government is only going by what they know. If anyone could go created an LLC, call themselves CEO and be free to work here then everyone would do it. Most likely he didn't keep up with his visa paperwork and this is the result.