Hello everyone its very nice to meet you. I have a few questions in regards to my wife coming to Canada to study from the Philippines. She wants to enroll for January 5 2015 classes while Oct 1 is intake for my local college. Given the time frame between now and the college intake and payment of tuition we are having problems proving the 10,000$ living expenses. Tuition is paid for but my wife recently graduated receiving a bachelors in secondary education and has no collateral, bank accounts or personal home to help prove the 10k. I am funding her education and am a Canadian citizen living in Canada. Our question is what alternatives to showing 10,000 in a bank account with 4 months worth of statements do we have? Is it possible to have her aunt put her house and land as collateral? Her aunts are willing to fund the living expenses portion of her study permit but we don't know how to do it properly within our time frame. What sort of proof of sponsorship would be required from her aunts? Her bachelors degree was sponsored by her aunts and not her mother the only surviving blood relative who has no equity to contribute. We are not sure if they deposit money into her bank account now would have enough time to be valid as the course starts in little over 5 months with 2 months to start intake and pay tuition. We can't start the process until Oct 1 due to the college opening tuition payment at the time. So that leaves only 3 months until school starts to get the study permit and prove living expenses. If we put 10,000$ into her personal bank account august 1 will the government consider that adequate if the money is still there when she flies to start her course in january? I really hope someone can provide us with assistance. Thank you for your time reading this and response.