A family paying a first-year tuition fee to Humber College from inside Canada (online banking, so Flywire wasn't available) found the college offers its fee receipt only on its student portal — no separately issued official receipt. Would a print-to-PDF of the portal page satisfy an SDS visa officer? The thread's answers:
- The portal PDF is the fee receipt — and it has worked. The decisive answer came from a member who did exactly this: submitted the PDF saved from the college portal, nothing else, and their application succeeded. Their advice was to treat that PDF as the official receipt.
- Pair the portal printout with the transfer record if you want belt-and-braces. Another member's formulation for Humber specifically: a print of the online account page together with a copy of the fee transfer works. That combination shows both the college's acknowledgment and the money movement.
- Don't substitute a bank-side confirmation for the college's receipt. The member with first-hand success was explicit: do not submit an RBC/CIBC payment-confirmation slip in place of the college's own receipt. The officer wants the college's acknowledgment that fees were received, not just your bank's evidence that money left your account.
- Expectations check: many colleges do issue official receipts. Members noted most colleges provide a formal fee receipt on request — so ask your college first; the portal-PDF route is the fallback where (as with Humber) the portal is the official record.
Takeaway: for SDS fee proof, the college's own record — even as a self-saved PDF of the portal — is the document that counts; bank confirmations are supplementary at best.