Passports Issued to the Family of G V Loganathan

The family of Indian professor G.V. Loganathan, who was among the 33 killed in a gory shooting spree at Virginia Tech University campus, has been issued the passports and visas for their US visit to attend his funeral rites.

Both the Ministry of External Affairs and the US consulate
prepared the travel document of the deceased family members,
who stay in Chennai.

Having received the passports and documents,
they were scheduled to leave for Washington later Wednesday night
by a Lufthansa flight.

G V Loganathan, 51, hailing from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu and
an alumnus of IIT, Kanpur, was the professor of civil and environmental
engineering at Virginia Tech (VT).

He had been serving the University
for the last 20 years.

The professor had dedicated himself to his students and wanted
to be close to the institute even after his death. He had always
wished to have his last rites performed in the US, country which
he had adopted as his own.

Passports and other necessary documents have issued to nine
family members including professor’s father Vasudevan, mother V. Kannammal, his brothers and their wives, his father-in-law and a brother-in-law.

All the formalities were completed in just an hour on the request
of the Ministry of External Affairs and the Tamil Nadu Government,
says Sumathi Ravichandran, regional passport officer.

US consulate also cleared the process and provided the deceased’s family members with visas right away and with no time delay.