Hi Sheldon.
Yes I was married at the time, which I guess is the only difference to your situation, but hardly a real sticking point. It was very simple really. The C2 form I posted was the only form needed to be filled by the British Embassy in the Philippines. The list of documents I posted is all you need. I am sure you will have all of them (or the applicable ones) We initially made an appointment to register our son's birth, and went to the embassy, but they rejected our son's photo because his head was slightly to one side (he was 3 weeks old... not easy to keep him awake and head steady) Anyway, all the other documents were in order, the girl in the embassy quickly checked we had them all. Because we needed to get the photo re-taken, and notorised by our friend the teacher, we returned home and re took them. We then sent all the documents (excluding my passport as I needed it to go home again.. so included a xerox of the ID page and stamps relating to time of conception) by LBC courier to the embassy, including return to LBC postage.
All of these documents were returned within about a week, I guess they send all of them to Hong Kong for processing and returned them straight away. They give a guidence that the passport if granted will take 6 weeks to come, ours came in 4 weeks.
I really don't see it as a problem that you were not married when your baby was conceived or born, just get your wife to fill in the appropriate part of the C2 form. Everything else is quite easy. The trouble is with asking someone to help you (like the consular) is that they probably think they know the system when they don't but because they are 'doing you a favor' they want their under the table payment for it. You can email the embassy, they are dreadful at replying, but they will do it, get the proper info from them if you get stuck.
Hope that helps a bit
