Country-wide policy
What Every Honduran Residence Application Has in Common
Whatever route you take, the same file is assembled. Thirteen general requirements apply to every residence application and eleven to every special permanence permit, and the heaviest of them are the criminal-record certificate from your country of origin and of last residence, a Honduran criminal investigation certificate, and a medical certificate no more than six months old. Everything from abroad must be legalised and anything in another language officially translated. After the decision you have thirty days to register in the National Registry of Foreigners, and the ministry will not release the certified decision until you have. The card runs for up to five years, nobody may hold two statuses at once, and the status dies after twelve consecutive months out of the country - six, if what you hold is a permit rather than a residence.
Topics it changes
- Residency on passive income
- Residency as a retiree
- Residency through work
- Residency through investment
- Residency as a student
- Residency through ancestry
- Residency through marriage
- Residency under a regional treaty
- Becoming a citizen
What it requires
- An application to the ministry, with the stamps the law requires affixed, a contact address and telephone, and a notarised power of attorney where an agent acts
- A recent 6 cm by 5 cm photograph of the applicant and of each relative, named on the reverse
- An original migration movement certificate from the migration directorate
- A criminal-record certificate from the country of origin and of last residence, authenticated
- An original certificate from the Dirección General de Investigación Criminal of having no complaints or criminal record
- A medical certificate issued within the six months before the application
- An authenticated photocopy of the passport, and official translation of anything in another language
- Registration in the National Registry of Foreigners within thirty days of the decision being certified
At a glance
- General requirements for a residence
- 13CALC (calculated by us, not published)
Our count of the numerals of article 22 of the regulation, which runs 1 to 13. The article states no total.
- General requirements for a special permanence permit
- 11CALC (calculated by us, not published)
Our count of the numerals of article 43 of the regulation, which runs 1 to 11. The article states no total.
- Medical certificate age
- No more than 6 months
- Police certificates
- Country of origin and of last residence, plus a Honduran one
- Registration deadline
- 30 days
- Card validity
- Up to 5 years
One year for students.
- Statuses held at once
- 1
- Lost by absence, residence
- 12 consecutive months
- Lost by absence, permit
- 6 consecutive months
- Notifying a change of address, civil status or activity
- Within 30 days
What the law says
«Certificado de antecedentes penales del país de origen y de su última residencia, debidamente autenticado;»Our translation - not official
A criminal-record certificate from the country of origin and of last residence, duly authenticated;
Two certificates, not one, where the applicant has lived somewhere other than their own country. The same requirement appears at article 43 numeral 6 for special permanence permits.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The state audit body's reference shelf, which carries the Constitution, the migration regulation, the tax code and the traffic law as PDFs. It is where several Honduran instruments are reachable at all.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It must not be cited for currency. It is an audit body's shelf, not a gazette and not a consolidator: no document on it carries a consolidation date or an amendment history, so it cannot establish that a text is the text in force, and it is not the issuing authority for anything it holds. Its directory index returns 403, so what it holds cannot be enumerated.
We re-read it every 120 days. More about this source
«Certificación médica extendida dentro de los seis meses anteriores a la presentación de la solicitud;»Our translation - not official
A medical certificate issued within the six months before the application is filed;
About this source
The state audit body's reference shelf, which carries the Constitution, the migration regulation, the tax code and the traffic law as PDFs. It is where several Honduran instruments are reachable at all.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It must not be cited for currency. It is an audit body's shelf, not a gazette and not a consolidator: no document on it carries a consolidation date or an amendment history, so it cannot establish that a text is the text in force, and it is not the issuing authority for anything it holds. Its directory index returns 403, so what it holds cannot be enumerated.
We re-read it every 120 days. More about this source
«Los extranjeros residentes o con permiso especial de permanencia están obligados a inscribirse en el Registro Nacional de Extranjeros, dentro de los treinta días siguientes a la fecha de emitida la certificación de la resolución respectiva.»Our translation - not official
Foreigners who are residents or hold a special permanence permit are obliged to register in the National Registry of Foreigners within thirty days of the date the certification of the respective decision is issued.
The same article adds that the ministry will not hand over the certified decision until the registration has been made, and that each individual registration, including of children, attracts its own fee.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The state audit body's reference shelf, which carries the Constitution, the migration regulation, the tax code and the traffic law as PDFs. It is where several Honduran instruments are reachable at all.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It must not be cited for currency. It is an audit body's shelf, not a gazette and not a consolidator: no document on it carries a consolidation date or an amendment history, so it cannot establish that a text is the text in force, and it is not the issuing authority for anything it holds. Its directory index returns 403, so what it holds cannot be enumerated.
We re-read it every 120 days. More about this source
«El carné de residencia y el carné especial de permanencia podrán expedirse hasta por cinco años. En el caso de los estudiantes el carné especial de permanencia se expedirá por un año.»Our translation - not official
The residence card and the special permanence card may be issued for up to five years. In the case of students the special permanence card shall be issued for one year.
About this source
The state audit body's reference shelf, which carries the Constitution, the migration regulation, the tax code and the traffic law as PDFs. It is where several Honduran instruments are reachable at all.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It must not be cited for currency. It is an audit body's shelf, not a gazette and not a consolidator: no document on it carries a consolidation date or an amendment history, so it cannot establish that a text is the text in force, and it is not the issuing authority for anything it holds. Its directory index returns 403, so what it holds cannot be enumerated.
We re-read it every 120 days. More about this source
«Ningún extranjero podrá ostentar dos o más calidades o categorías migratorias simultáneamente.»Our translation - not official
No foreigner may hold two or more migration statuses or categories simultaneously.
The sentence continues: and foreigners are forbidden to carry out activities other than those expressly authorised, on pain of losing the residence or permit and being expelled.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The state audit body's reference shelf, which carries the Constitution, the migration regulation, the tax code and the traffic law as PDFs. It is where several Honduran instruments are reachable at all.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It must not be cited for currency. It is an audit body's shelf, not a gazette and not a consolidator: no document on it carries a consolidation date or an amendment history, so it cannot establish that a text is the text in force, and it is not the issuing authority for anything it holds. Its directory index returns 403, so what it holds cannot be enumerated.
We re-read it every 120 days. More about this source
«4) Por permanecer fuera del país más de doce (12) meses consecutivos sin el permiso correspondiente, en el caso de los residentes.»Our translation - not official
4) For remaining outside the country more than twelve (12) consecutive months without the corresponding permission, in the case of residents.
A continuous-absence rule rather than a presence quota: three absences of eleven months each do not breach it, and one of thirteen does.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
An academic observatory at the national public university, which hosts facsimiles of La Gaceta and of regional migration instruments - including the CA-4 unified manual, which is held at no other address we have reached.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: It hosts, it does not publish. What is held here are facsimiles of La Gaceta and of a regional instrument that carries Guatemalan migration-institute letterhead, so the documents are primary and the body offering them is not their publisher: it must never be cited as the publisher of what it holds, nor as evidence that any text is current, complete or still in force. It is typed government-primary because the taxonomy classifies the document rather than the host, and these documents are official text; the fact that a public university's observatory is the only address we reached for the CA-4 manual is a reason to look for a government one, not a reason to doubt the text.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source
Practical notes
Article 90 of the regulation, which lists what a naturalisation application needs, is printed with gaps in its numbering - it runs 1 to 8, then 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16 and on. The gaps are in the published text and not in our reading of it.
The regulation does not state a processing time for any application, and no agency publishes one.
Absence can be authorised. Both absence rules say "without the corresponding permission", so the directorate can agree a longer trip in advance, and we have not read what that application involves.