JamesC, I consider your post to be unhelpful, merely listing the benefits listed in para 6 of the Immigration Rules is only part of the story.
And your reference to "I think the NHS work on a good samaritan footing, if your wife was in labour and screaming" is very unhelpful, given that Bikerboy's wife is clearly entitled to use the NHS.
Bikerboy, go to the NHS surgery, with your wife's passport, and register her as an NHS patient. Should they say that she is not entitled to be registered on the NHS, ask for the contact details of the PCT, to whom you will complain!
Right let's now look at the benefits situation. There is an ability to claim Child Benefit, but Bikerboy, it must be you .... and certainly not your wife ... that claims that Child Benefit. As regards Tax Credits, given that such claim must be made jointly by a couple living together, at first glance the "No recourse to Public Funds" restriction on your wife's visa appears to be a problem. However "small print" in the Tax Credits legislation, namely reg 3(2) Tax Credits (Immigration) Regulations 2003 comes to your rescue. That is where the couple consist of one person subject to immigration control ... your wife .... and one person not subject to immigration control ... you ... then
for Tax Credits purposes only they are both treated as not being subject to immigration control ... hence a claim for Tax Credits can be made .... no problem. This is reinforced by para 6B of the Immigration Rules.
After our child is born and we register the birth, will our baby be a UK citizen
Yes, given your British Citizenship, your child will be British as soon as born.
Finally Bikerboy, given that your disclosed location is Birmingham, and you mention Good Hope Hospital, which is also the nearest hospital to us, we could well be living in the same area.
