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After 12-day ordeal, kin of student in ICU finally gets US visa

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March 01, 2025

The Shinde family's relentless efforts to secure an emergency visa to the USA has finally come to fruition.

- Niraj Pandit

MUMBAI: The visa, granted on Friday morning, will allow 35-year-old Neelam Shinde's father and cousin to travel to California, where she lies in a comatose state following a road accident on February 12.

Neelam, 35, an engineering graduate from Pune's Sinhgad Institute, is pursuing her MS in engineering at California State University. The Satara district resident was critically injured when she was hit by a bike while she was on an e-cycle on February 14. After the accident, she was admitted to UC Davis Medical Centre in Sacramento, where she continues to be in intensive care.

Her maternal uncle, Sanjay Kadam, recalled the distressing moment the family learned about the accident. "I received a call on February 16 from her roommate who informed us about the accident. We were shocked. Neelam's father, Tanaji Shinde, was speechless," he said.

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