Immediate needs need an immediate solution, not one that may or may not happen.
The OP sketches a situation that - if I were Apple - I would approach with some caution.
Technically it sounds like he is trying to evade income tax or something like that (because of all the shenanigans with a foreign company when he could have simply be paid at home).
So they will take this one step at the time. Also, going 'public' on a company for a mess of your own making isn't very nice.