Our daughter was born in Naples a few years ago - so she has a US Navy Birth certificate, and Italian one (which doesn't have space to name the father, thereby avoiding embarrasment in Italy of illegitamacy) and I then started the tedious process of trying to get a UK birth certificate through BFG in Rheindahlen. Time was against us becasue of another move (and therefore needed a passport ASAP) so I simply asked the local Consular staff to register the birth. Euro 75 later, the business was done and a passport issued - all in about a week (the process takes longer now that passports are now solely produced in the UK). Months later I was still getting queries from RO2 I A M Jobsworth Maj (Rtd) from Rheindahlen 'demanding' that I registered her birth with BFG. I told him to go away, quoting Rex Specilatus.