........I might try and write them a letter, see what happens.
You are joking ?
The Black Helicopters will be surrounding you anytime now.
My first wife entered the USA as passenger, filled in the 1-94 correctly, then left as crew, so no one knew to pull the I-94 out of her passport, and then we got married, so she had to leave the airline.
3 years later she got a letter - to her address in England, telling her that she was still in the U.S. illegally.
I don't think she ever went back, so I guess she has been there illegally for a good number of years now - even tho' she is actually residing in Sussex.
Ain't bureacracy wonderful ?