‘Don’t want any of my children to go to US’: Mother of Hyderabad doctor who died by suicide ‘after visa rejection’

“I don’t want any of my children to go to the US anymore,” said Laskhmi Raju.

“Indians contribute to the economy in the US. Why do they then deny us entry?” asked Raju, a mother of three. “My son is also a doctor. I don’t want him to ever go to the US. It is better to be in India,” she said.

Rohini died in her flat at Padmarao Nagar in Hyderabad on Thursday night. Chilkalguda police said her family members had visited her that night and that she died after they left.

On Friday night, the apartment’s watchman noticed that she had not come out of her flat and alerted her family. Later, when the door was forced open, she was found dead on a cot. “Rohini left a suicide note in which she cited the rejection of US visa as the reason for her extreme step,” Chilkalguda police told The Indian Express.

Rohini did her MBBS in Russia and lived at Padmarao Nagar for the last eight years.

Her mother said, “She was a bright student and a college in the US had accepted her for a residency. She was one among the 11 who qualified. But because her visa got rejected, she had to forgo this admission.”

“After her father died of a cardiac arrest when Rohini was six years old, I brought up my children on my own. My dreams are shattered because my daughter took her life,” Raju said. The family is based in Hyderabad and was originally from Guntur in Andhra Pradesh.

The US has tightened the visa norms in the second term of President Donald Trump. J1 is a non-immigrant visa for participants of the United States Exchange Visitor Program.

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