Make sure they register the birth and request the certificate online. Apparently our mistake was taking the form in in person...one would have thought it shouldn’t have made any difference.
Us too, we expected it to take the stated 28 days but that’s from them ‘receiving’ it. Despite us lodging it in March they only processed it as being received in May
glad we scrapped a plan to go to NZ, we wouldn’t have been ready. And this is with bub arriving over three weeks earlier than we’d expected.
