 Veneris returned to the United States twice, first in 1976 to celebrate the bicentennial and again some time in the late 1990s.He has a daughter and a son who were raised in China and later moved to the US in the 1990s.He was one of the subjects of the 2005 documentary "They Chose China" which was directed by Shui-Bo Wang and produced by the National Film Board of Canada.