My father was recently denied a U.S passport because his birth certificate states “delayed” on it?

Question

He was born in Texas in 1949 and registered until 1952 when his younger brother was born and at the request of the rancher where my grandfather who is from Mexico worked at, he told him it was important to register them and drove them to the courthouse, by the way that rancher was the mayor of the small town they lived in back then. My father and his family eventually returned to to Mexico when my father was 4 and before he could start school, or be baptized. My father returned to live in the States when he as 18 and has been here since.

The Department of State is asking for the following proof;

1. baptismal certificate

2. hospital birth certificate

3. census record

4. early school record

5. family bible record

6. doctors record

and/or a ds-10 birth affidavit from an older blood relative

The only relative he has alive who can attest to this is his father who is about 98 and doesnt remember much, the rancher is long deceased.

Answer 1

Those items on that list are examples of the wide range of documents the passport office will accept. He doesn't need all of them just one.

Regardless of the circumstances of your fathers birth, it would seem reasonable that he would be able to come up with something.

Has he been all through his fathers old papers and documents?