[2] Keil owned Apia Broadcasting, which operated Samoan channel TV3 until its sale to Radio Polynesia in April 2018.

[2][8] On 9 September 2008, while in Branson, Missouri assisting Samoans employed at a theater there, Keil was arrested by United States immigration agents and jailed.

A database search by the agents showed that Keil had twice applied for certification of American citizenship based on being born abroad to a mother who was an American citizen, but she had not resided in the United States for the five years after her sixteenth birthday that the law then required, and Keil had not appeared for the required interview to discuss this.

[11] A month after his arrest, Keil became aware that he held American citizenship through his father, because his paternal grandfather had become a naturalized citizen of the United States.

[3] In December a United States magistrate in Springfield, Missouri dropped the charges against him and ordered the $25,000 bond he had been required to pay to return to Samoa to be refunded to him.