I tried registering an account for my brother both times waited nearly a month and getting no feedback and when eventually complaining on Steemit.chat just to get told use a service like AnonSteem.

I gave it up as a bad idea and just used SteemConnect and paid the account creation fee from my own wallet.

I don't know why there can't be a more straight forward way of buying, donating an account for someone. I don't mind paying the account creation fee for my brother since it's such a small amount of steem. My problem is they make it such a weird procedure to go through.
Find account creation fee and multiply by 30 to get the amount required type nonsense.