His wife, Miraebel, and father, Luis, Sr. (granted emergency visas), were at his bedside.

The epidemiologists from the health group's division of communicable and other emerging diseases are trying to reach Darwaz from Dushanbe, Tajikistan, which has been asked to provide emergency visas.

This came a day after she received an emergency visa from the United States Interests Section in Havana.

At his direction, synagogues in Cincinnati and across the country sent contracts to rabbis, thereby securing 2,000 emergency visas that were telegraphed to Eastern Europe.

In case of a German attack, he had a "rucksack filled with basics ready to flee to the mountains," a false Bolivian passport and an emergency visa for the United States.

In 1941, she reached the United States on an emergency visa.

They were arrested by the police of the Vichy government in southern France and, despite their emergency visa to enter the United States of America, handed over to the Gestapo on 9 February 1941.

So he arranged for United Nations health officials to bring Lansana to New York in January 2002 on an emergency medical visa.

Some countries rapidly granted Pakistanis emergency visas; in Britain, which has a large Pakistani population, a special visa desk was set up at Heathrow Airport.

His family, from Pune, West India, have applied for emergency visas to travel to Britain but have criticised authorities for dithering over the release of his body.