I had problems getting my first passport and security clearance. The problem was not that I was a service brat born at Wegberg, but my father was also a service brat being born in India . I recall that was some sort of loophole in a new nationality act. If I recall correctly, the upshot was a waiver was issued by the Home Office for such cases as mine. I believe that a retired colonel demanded that the act be changed rather than the waiver, fighting his case mainly in the letters column of the telegraph