Genesis Kuzhel

ECFMG Certified-IMG 🇻🇪 || AAMC ID: 16359775 #Match2026 Aspirant || 10+ yrs HIV/AIDS Advocacy & Global Health || Corgi mom 🐶 Musician 🎶

[Genesis Kuzhel @drgenesisk]

Years ago I left everything behind in Venezuela chasing safety and a dream I could barely see. I MATCHED!!! 🇺🇸🩺
Every sleepless night was worth it. This one’s for everyone who believed in me. #match2026

[Emmanuel Rincón @EmmaRincon]

El momento en el que María Corina Machado sale al balcón en la Puerta del Sol:

[Project IMG ™ @ProjectImg]

BREAKING NEWS

According to his attorney, Dr. Ezequiel Veliz will be released.

Dr. Veliz, a dedicated physician serving the Rio Grande Valley, was detained by immigration authorities despite having lived in the United States for years and caring for one of the most underserved communities in Texas.

His case sparked national attention, highlighting how current policies can directly impact physicians who are actively treating patients in areas where access to care is already limited.

Today, we move one step closer to bringing him back — back to his family, and back to the patients who need him the most.

We will remain in constant contact with his family through Project IMG — including his sister, Genesis, and his husband, Joseph. We will not stop until his full release, and until Dr. Bibi is released as well.

We hope to see you home soon, Dr. Veliz.

#BreakingNews #DrVeliz #IMGs #HealthcareMatters #projectimg

[Dr Ahmad Rehan Khan @AhmadRehanKhan]

𝗣𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀:

Kudos to the incredible doctors at Docfluncers MD for raising their voices for Dr. Rubeliz Bolívar, an Emergency Medicine resident in the Rio Grande Valley, detained by Border Patrol alongside her 5-year-old daughter, and Dr. Ezequiel Véliz from Knapp Medical Center.

These are physicians serving some of the most medically underserved communities in the United States. Their detention is not just unjust, it directly impacts patient care.

This is what real advocacy looks like, colleagues standing up for colleagues, and for the patients who rely on them.

We stand with them. We Request their immediate release.

[Genesis Kuzhel @drgenesisk]

@REinventedstyle @JoaquinCastrotx We are still trying to get him release. His lawyer is working on his case 😓 We have all the documentation needed. Just waiting for the hearing date

[Genesis Kuzhel @drgenesisk]

@MD_pause @SeeFisch Doc! Please help us share my best friend's (Dr. Ezequiel Veliz's case)!! He is still wrongfully detained! as well as Dr. Bibi Bolivar #freedrveliz #freedrbolivar #img #medtwitter

[Dr Ahmad Rehan Khan @AhmadRehanKhan]

Thank you, Dr. @AlokPatelMD, for raising your voice for two Venezuelan physicians detained by ICE/Border Petrol within just two weeks, Dr. Ezequiel Veliz and Dr. Rubeliz Bolívar.

Dr. Bolívar was detained at the airport alongside her 5-year-old U.S. citizen daughter. She is an Emergency Medicine physician serving a medically underserved community, the very places that depend on physicians like her the most.

These are not just immigration cases. These are doctors who followed the rules, served patients, and strengthened a strained healthcare system.

Detaining physicians who are legally in the U.S. and actively caring for vulnerable populations is not just unjust, it directly harms patient care.

We must speak up. Stand for these doctors. Stand for our patients.

#USCISPause #MedTwitter #MedEd #MedX #ICE #IMGs

[Genesis Kuzhel @drgenesisk]

@Libertaria17082 esta señora es patrimonio nacional y nos representa totalmente! La amooo❤️

[PhysiciansOnPause @MD_pause]

In Dr. Veliz’s CNN article, published the same day as his detention, he said:

“I miss my job. I love what I do. I’ve dedicated my life to medicine, and that has been taken away from me now.”

Dr. Veliz lost his hard-earned residency position five months ago because a USCIS policy indefinitely paused his work authorization renewal based on his Venezuelan nationality. His program filled for Alien physician visa for him. Nevertheless since December USCIS has paused all benifits for Venezuelan nationals and 39 other countries living inside the US.

In a letter to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in support of having Dr. Veliz’s visa approved, Dr. James Fahey, an assistant professor of family and community medicine at UT Health, Rio Grande Valley, called him “an impressive physician and person and has been a great benefit to the state of Texas in delivering high quality medical care.”

What makes this especially cruel is that a U.S. residency position is not handed out lightly. It is one of the most competitive pathways in the world. You must excel on grueling eight-hour USMLE exams, compete in the Match against thousands of highly qualified applicants, interview at numerous institutions, and rank programs strategically. Even that is often not enough. Many candidates also spend years building research portfolios, gaining experience in U.S. hospitals, and investing enormous time, money, and sacrifice just to earn a chance.

Imagine doing all of that. Imagine dedicating years of your life, your savings, your energy, and your hope to proving yourself through merit, discipline, and service to communities and patient you diligently care for, appreciative of the opportunity, only to have a policy decide that none of it matters because of where you were born.

No hearing on your character. No judgment based on compliance. No meaningful regard for merit or the rule of law. Just the quiet construction of a system designed to strip you of everything you built.

That is not merely unfair. It is morally grotesque, a profoundly brutal way to treat human beings, and one that inflicts collateral harm on countless communities and vulnerable patients who depend on them.

This is the human reality of USCIS policy pause PM-602-0192/94: a deeply punitive policy that inflicts maximum suffering on legal immigrants who placed their faith in the system and in the promise of America.

https://t.co/aCpAVmrWdl…

#LiftTheHold
#LiftThePause
#Physicianshortage

[Genesis Kuzhel @drgenesisk]

@joshuatheard @JoaquinCastrotx We all agree that immigrations have to be controlled and laws have to be followed. The problem is when people that is doing things right faces this type of issues and instead of receiving assistance for clarification, are held from their freedom unfairly

[Genesis Kuzhel @drgenesisk]

@grok @joshuatheard @JoaquinCastrotx @grok Dr. Ezequiel Veliz had another legal documentation process ongoing and came to the US legally. He is married to an US Citizen and before the TPS from 2018 until his TPS had a student visa. Why is the information incomplete and misleading?

[AAFP @aafp]

Physicians and medical trainees are indispensable to the nation’s health care infrastructure. We urge the Departments to act swiftly to implement targeted, lawful relief that recognizes the national interest in ensuring that qualified physicians can enter, remain, and continue serving patients in the U.S. without unnecessary delay. 

Add your voice: https://t.co/BLSYHBoyuh

[Genesis Kuzhel @drgenesisk]

@david17206 @2006_tiburon Nunca estuvo indocumentado

[Genesis Kuzhel @drgenesisk]

@SenBooker @SenBooker Dr Veliz is my best friend! we need your help please!

[Genesis Kuzhel @drgenesisk]

@joshuatheard @JoaquinCastrotx That's incorrect. Venezuelan's visas were not revoked. TPS was (not visas). He had other ongoing legal process as well

[Jesus Chuo Torrealba @ChuoTorrealba]

El Dr. Ezequiel Veliz, mèdico venezolano mencionado por The New York Times el pasado fin de semana, es uno de los muchos médicos nacidos en el extranjero atrapados por una política poco conocida de la administración Trump, la cual ha congelado indefinidamente todas las vías legales —incluyendo extensiones de visa, permisos de trabajo y procesamiento de tarjetas verdes (green cards)— para ciudadanos de 39 países que viven legalmente en Estados Unidos, algunos desde hace décadas.

.Veliz fue nombrado Residente del Año en 2025 en UT Health Rio Grande Valley. Ingresó legalmente a los Estados Unidos y atendió pacientes conforme a la ley; sin embargo, se vio forzado a retirarse de su puesto tras la expiración de su permiso de trabajo. Su hospital había presentado la petición de visa necesaria para mantenerlo trabajando, pero debido a que el USCIS ha pausado las decisiones desde diciembre para venezolanos y personas de otros 39 países, su caso quedó en el limbo, según documentos revisados por The New York Times.

No se trata de inmigrantes ilegales, indocumentados o desconocidos para la seguridad. Son médicos que se formaron, trabajaron y cuidaron a pacientes estadounidenses, solo para ser expulsados de los hospitales debido a la "culpa" de su lugar de nacimiento.

El Dr. Veliz fue detenido por la Patrulla Fronteriza en Texas el lunes por la noche, tras verse forzado a dejar su puesto.

https://t.co/CXxajJ6P3R

[Genesis Kuzhel @drgenesisk]

@joshuatheard @JoaquinCastrotx Of course, if things are done right. He shouldn't be detained in first place, that's the problem

[Genesis Kuzhel @drgenesisk]

@Alberto54531938 @JoaquinCastrotx He has never been undocumented. He came to the country legally. To be able to practice medicine here, we have to go through an extensive and rigorous background check and we have to be documented.

[Genesis Kuzhel @drgenesisk]

@howdigithere @JoaquinCastrotx He has never been undocumented. He came to the country legally. To be able to practice medicine here, we have to go through an extensive and rigorous background check and we have to be documented.

[Genesis Kuzhel @drgenesisk]

@BarryADG1975 @JoaquinCastrotx He never did. He has never been undocumented. He came to the country legally. To be able to practice medicine here, we have to go through an extensive and rigorous background check and we have to be documented.