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Student bus passes

If you’re enrolled in at least one on-campus course for credit, you’re automatically charged for a U-Pass as per UVSS/GSS policies.

Starting September 2023, you’ll need to use the new Umo mobile app or a reloadable Umo card to show proof of payment on all buses in the Victoria Regional Transit System. The UVic ONECard will no longer operate as your bus pass.

You’ll need to activate your U-Pass every term with that term’s unique-to-you .

Activate your U-Pass

You can choose to use either the Umo app or a reloadable Umo card as your U-Pass—you cannot use both. As the app includes travel tools such as real-time information, maps, and alerts, it is BC Transit’s recommended fare product.

Umo app
  1. Download the Umo Mobility mobile app from the or
    • International students: you may need to use remote access/VPN or change your or once you are in Canada
  2. Create an Umo account. We recommend you use an email address as your username
  3. Visit  (in online tools) to get your unique-to-you UVic benefit code
  4. Inside the Umo app, select Redeem Benefit from the top menu
  5. Tap Change Agency and select the Victoria Regional Transit and enter your bus pass code to link your U-Pass to your app
Reloadable Umo card
  1. Pick up a card for free from your student union or a BC Transit Umo vendor
    Locations on campus: UVSS info booth (SUB); Room 102 in Halpern Graduate Centre for Graduate Students; Continuing Studies Building second floor
  2. Visit  (in online tools) to get your unique-to-you UVic benefit code
  3. Visit to create an account and register your card
  4. Once inside, click on the left menu, select Change Agency and select Victoria Regional Transit
  5. Select My Wallet, Redeem Benefit Code and enter your benefit code to link your U-Pass to your card

Ready to travel

When you are ready to travel, please have your payment ready prior to stepping aboard the bus.

  • If you are using the Umo app, select Validation Code to display your account’s dynamic QR code. Aboard the bus, present your QR code to the centre of the Umo validator
  • If you are using the Umo card, tap your card at the base of the validator

You’ll know your U-Pass was accepted when you see the Umo validator’s green checkmark.

Visit the  for route information.

Learn more

Learn more about the U-Pass program for: