{"id":416,"date":"2013-07-12T12:34:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T17:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepassportoffice.com\/blog\/dna-could-be-vital-for-passport-application\/"},"modified":"2022-02-11T11:00:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T16:00:58","slug":"dna-could-be-vital-for-passport-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepassportoffice.com\/blog\/dna-could-be-vital-for-passport-application\/","title":{"rendered":"DNA could be vital for <b>passport application<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DNA could be vital for <b>passport application<\/b><\/strong><br \/>\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London confirmed this week that Nim&#39;an Bowden, who claims his father was former Dartmouth man Brian Bowden, had been advised on making a British passport application. The FCO added it could not speak about &#8230;<br \/>\n<i>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth-today.co.uk\/news.cfm?id=23777&#038;headline=DNA%20could%20be%20vital%20for%20passport%20application\">Dartmouth-Today<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Snowden tells rights groups he wants Russia asylum<\/strong><br \/>\nSnowden has been holed up at the airport&#39;s transit zone since arriving on a flight from Hong Kong on June 23 before his US passport was revoked. Human Rights Watch representative Tanya Lokshina told reporters agency that Snowden said &quot;he wants to stay &#8230;<br \/>\n<i>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/latest\/a\/-\/article\/17972571\/snowden-tells-rights-groups-he-wants-russia-asylum\/\">Yahoo!7 News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNA could be vital for passport application The Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London confirmed this week that Nim&#39;an Bowden, who claims his father was former Dartmouth man Brian Bowden, had been advised on making a British passport application. 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