If she had NOT registered the child’s birth with nearest US Embassy would the Port of Entry register the birth?
I don’t think so. I think she would have had to have gone to the office in Hawaii and register it. I think that’s what a Certificate of Live Birth is—not the real birth certificate.
I know I had one son born in another country and it was a real pain to get all the paperwork—original birth certificate, and then the little Certificate of Foreign Birth Abroad for his citizenship. The first was five pages long, and the second a half page. We made sure we got plenty of copies.
My guess is she entered through Bellingham but knowing how lax the border was in the 60’s I doubt the birth was registered at the port of entry. I don’t really know but I do know that the port of entry would NOT keep the original Birth Certificate! They would have given her immigration paperwork to fill out and have stamped, but would have returned the birth certificate to her.
It's not clear to me that she *could* have registered the birth with a US Embassy or Consulate, because she was not eligible to pass citizenship to a child born outside the country. So why would the embassy register the birth of a foreign national?
Now I don't know if she would have needed to show a copy of the foreign, that is Kenyan/British, BC to prove that he was indeed her child and not some baby she was smuggling in. This might have been made even more likely by the fact that he was a black baby and she was white. If she did have to show a foregin BC, what the folks at the Port of Entry might have would be a copy of the original Kenyan/British BC? That's way I read the thing about the BC, that it was not a US BC, but rather a Kenyan/British Colonial one. I missed the part about it being at the port of entry. Which could be Seattle after a hop from Kenya to London maybe to Labrador and on to Seattle. (Wouldn't that have been fun with a brand new baby?) Then it would have been on to Hawaii from there. Other POEs are obviously also possible.