A Canadian-born doctor treating U.S. coronavirus patients was denied permanent status as part of President Trump
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“It’s heart-wrenching. I feel helpless,” Julia Iafrate, an intensive care unit doctor in New York, told CNN’s Chris Cuomo Tuesday.
“I’m putting my life on the line every day to do this … I’m honestly beside myself. It’s like a slap in the face,” Iafrate added.
I can only hope and pray they reconsider the denial. Please help me #uscis #letdrjstay https://t.co/5gPQG1LdRk
— Dr. Julia Iafrate, DO, CAQSM, FAAPMR (@thenewDrJ) May 6, 2020
Iafrate is currently an assistant professor at Columbia University Medical Center. She has lived in the U.S. for 13 years, 10 of which were spent completing a residency program at the Mayo Clinic and a sports medicine fellowship at the University of Iowa before starting at Columbia three years ago.
She is currently sponsored by the hospital she practices in but had her green card application denied last week. Iafrate is in the process of filing an appeal.
“It’s heart-wrenching … I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what I could have done better,” she s