Thats what's messed up, the Bureau of Consular Affairs has a list of entire regions and time frames that aren't allowed to use a birth certificate to prove citizenship because at one time someone was caught making a small number of false records.

The fact that someone is targeting this region and such a wide time frame without it being part of the official acceptance process makes the whole thing very screwed up.

These people are going to start applying for renewals in outside regions, which will automatically flag it as a suspicious application, but might improve their odds of not running up against a racist office.