I don't know what I'm doing

I am an American citizen and I am engaged to a British citizen.  I really want to work even though he can provide for me. I don't know how to go about getting a work permit and I am in major need of help.  I am so confused and I don't know where to go to find help.  And now I have just found out that I am pregnant and I really feel that I should help with the income, even though he strongly disagrees.  Please help me with any suggestions that you might have.

You say you're engaged.  You can work once you're married.

You also don't say where you are.  Are you in the UK?  If so, is it just as a visitor and how long have you been here?

If you're in the UK on a fiancee visa, then once you're married and have applied for & received your Further/Limited Leave to Remain, you can work.

Hello, welcome and congratulations!

Peedal is right. If I were you I'd get married/have the baby. If he can care for all of you financially, enjoy that freedom. Once the baby is a bit older (whatever age YOU decide!), you can think about working then. As stated above... you can't work on a fiancee visa but you can once you are married.

You say you're engaged.  You can work once you're married.

You also don't say where you are.  Are you in the UK?  If so, is it just as a visitor and how long have you been here?

If you're in the UK on a fiancee visa, then once you're married and have applied for & received your Further/Limited Leave to Remain, you can work.

I am in South London and I have been here for 2 months on a vistor visa and in the process of applying for a fiancee visa And i just found out that i'm pregnant and I'm going to need medical care and I wonder if i will be allowed.

Far as I'm aware, you will not be declined medical care, especially if you are in the process of getting that fiancee visa.

You know you have to leave the UK and return to the US to get a Fiancee Visa?

If you are in the UK as a visitor, you are not even really allowed to look for work.  You will have to wait until you are married and then you'll be eligible to work.

You probably won't be *denied* care - but remember that whilst you are here as a visitor, you really aren't entitled to care under the NHS.  Once you have re-entered the UK on your Fiancee Visa, you are entitled to NHS services.

When do you plan to return to the US to get your visa?

You may have to pay for your medical care here.  Technically, people on visitor's visas are not entitled to use the NHS.  Please see the thread at the top of this area of the forum concerning the new marriage rules in the UK.  As peedal has already stated, you cannot switch from a visitor's visa to a fiance or spousal visa whilst remaining in the UK.  You cannot seek work on a visitor's visa, either, even voluntary. 

Best of luck to you!

I paid 50 quid to see a doctor in Oxford when I had an ear infection and was here on holiday.  I can only imagine how much prenatal care would cost! 

Get on that fiancee visa ASAP because you're going to need it for NHS.   

http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/innerpage.asp?Area=80&Topic=617&Title=I%20live%20abroad%20and%20am%20visiting%20England%20%E2%80%93%20can%20I%20register%20with%20the%20NHS?

This is the "offical word" on whether visitors to the UK can receive NHS treatment.  I don't think any doctor is going to demand payment of a pregnant woman who is soon to be married to a Brit and who is sorting out her visa.  But you do need to get your visa sorted asap. If you are not bothered about having a fancy ceremony it might be quicker for your fiance to go back to the US with you, get married there and get your spouse visa and come back. Otherwise you have to go back there, get the fiance visa, come back here and get married here and then apply for the spouse visa. Just a suggestion.

This is the "offical word" on whether visitors to the UK can receive NHS treatment.  I don't think any doctor is going to demand payment of a pregnant woman who is soon to be married to a Brit and who is sorting out her visa. 

Why wouldn't they demand payment?  If a patient isn't covered under NHS, the doctor doesn't get paid unless the patient pays them.  I don't know a lot of doctors (or midwives) who would be willing to treat a woman for free, especially a woman they don't know. 

If you read what it says there, it says it is down to the individual GP to decide whether to accept someone as an NHS patient and that they are more likely to take on someone who is intending to remain indefinitely in the UK. If they take the person on as an NHS patient then they are getting paid for it.  I don't think all is lost in Dannygirl's case.  If Dannygirl does end up needing a private midwife, I believe they charge around £1000-2000 for the entire pregnancy - at least that is a figure I was given last year when I was pregnant.

Interesting..

If you are not bothered about having a fancy ceremony it might be quicker for your fiance to go back to the US with you, get married there and get your spouse visa and come back.

Quicker and possibly cheaper.  If you marry Stateside and make an appointment at your nearest British Embassy, you can have your spouse visa the same day, come back here the next, and be sorted. 

Quicker and possibly cheaper. If you marry Stateside and make an appointment at your nearest British Embassy, you can have your spouse visa the same day, come back here the next, and be sorted.

Yeah -- you're going to have to go to the US to get your visa anyway, so it might be easier to get married there in a small ceremony and plan a fancy one over here for later (if you want to).