Thanks once agin for your help and advice Pete, well it looks straight forward that i can gain a copy of my marriage certificate through the NSO and have it mailed to me via courrier rather quickly, as soon as i have this i can begin the divorce petition. Well your right that im not actually bothered as to if my wife is granted ILR or not as like you say it's not my problem or concern it was just the fact that she was attempting to "blackmail" me before as she was holding the marriage certificate and as you correctly say without it i cant divorce her-i was previously unaware that i could obtain a copy via the NSO so this clears up that problem for me, she was basically saying that she would not release the marriage certificate if i didn't first sign her papers for ILR-obviously fraudulantly!...anyway it now appears that my problem is solved although i still have one concern that being that she may decide not to sign the divorce petition upon recieving it and i dont know then where i will stand in this case especially if she then chose to return straight back to the Philippines without first signing the court papers as she would obviously then realize that she would not be getting ILR but again as you stated this would not then be in her best interests as she would still be legally married to me.
