- Routes
- Citizen by descent (Art. 23(2))
- Dual citizenship
- Kept on every open route
The stamps assume no one in the line became a citizen of another country before the next person in the line was born. What changes each answer is below.
On this page›
- 01Who qualifies
- 02Dates that matter
- 03Mothers’ lines
- 04Keeping your citizenship
- 05The routes and the law
- 06The documents
- 07What it takes
- 08Where the records live
- 09Law changes
- 10Other doors
- 11Sources
01Who qualifies
Who qualifies, generation by generation
LIKELY
Can you claim Honduran citizenship through a parent?
Citizen by descent
A child of a Honduran parent is Honduran. Dual nationality for Hondurans by birth since 2002.
POSSIBLE
Can you claim Honduran citizenship through a grandparent?
Citizen by descent
A Honduran born abroad passes Honduran nationality by birth to their own children once they prove it, so your parent registers first and then you.
What would settle itWhether your parent can be registered as a Honduran by birth first.
POSSIBLE
Can you claim Honduran citizenship through a great-grandparent?
Citizen by descent
A Honduran born abroad passes Honduran nationality by birth to their own children once they prove it, so your parent registers first and then you.
What would settle itWhether your parent can be registered as a Honduran by birth first.
02Dates that matter
The dates that matter
No date named in Honduras’s rule decides who qualifies. The answers above turn on the family’s facts, not on when anyone was born or left.
03Mothers’ lines
How mothers’ lines were treated
Honduras’s rule gives the same answer whether the line runs through a mother or a father. Where its reasons speak of mothers or fathers, they say:
04Keeping your citizenship
Dual citizenship with your home country
You keep your citizenship.
On every open route, the rule lets a citizen of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Argentina or South Africa keep that citizenship.
05The routes
Every route, and the law behind it
- LIKELY
Through a parent
- POSSIBLE
Through a grandparent
The law
What would settle an unsure case
- Whether your parent can be registered as a Honduran by birth first.
06The documents
The documents, as the rule lists them
Citizen by descent
Through a parent
- Your parent’s Honduran birth certificate or identity document
- Your birth certificate, apostilled and translated
Through a grandparent or great-grandparent
- Your Honduran ancestor’s birth certificate
- Birth records for each generation, each registered in turn
Most countries also want proof that no one in the line became a citizen elsewhere before the next birth: the naturalization record with its date, or a letter that none exists.
07What it takes
What it takes: time, cost, the hard part, who decides
Citizen by descent
- Time
- A few weeks to a few months at the consulate.
- Cost
- About $150–350: consular fee, apostilles and certified translations.
- The hard part
- None, usually. Bring your parent’s Honduran birth certificate or identity card and your own apostilled birth certificate.
- Who decides
- The Honduran consulate for your address, by appointment.
- The first record
- Your parent’s Honduran birth certificate (partida de nacimiento), from The Registro Nacional de las Personas (RNP). Request the certified copy online or at any RNP office with the full name and approximate date; it issues in days to a few weeks. rnp.hn ↗
How it’s filed
- Where
- A Honduran consulate in the U.S., which sends the certification to the RNP Commissioners for incorporation in the Registro Civil del Distrito Central (or the municipality the parents name). office list ↗
- How
- In person; you appear in person
- Appointments
- SRECI Cita Consular (a second, parallel system, ACOS, is also in use in 2026). The official appointment site did not return content to an automated client on 2026-09-25; treat it as browser-only for a person until checked. Secondary sources describe two parallel booking systems in 2026, SRECI's Cita Consular and ACOS, with no single reliable one ('donde sirve uno, el otro no').
- Fee
- About $25
- Decision
- 1–6 months
What goes in the file (6)›
- Your foreign birth certificate, certified original, apostilled
- The Honduran parent's birth certification from the RNP
- If the other parent is not Honduran: a copy of their passport, to match the names
- Your photo ID (an adult of 21 or over may file alone)
- Originals and copies of everything
- Payment by money order (no cash or cards at U.S. consular offices)
What goes wrong (8)›
- RNP: children born abroad to a Honduran father or mother may be registered before diplomatic or consular agents; late registration is possible at the request of the interested party.
- Majority in Honduras is 21: a person 21 or over may appear alone; younger applicants need a parent.
- Fee unverified: secondary sources report $25 by money order; the SRECI consular fee page lists passports but not this act.
- Alternatively the file can be presented at the RNP's Secretaría General in Tegucigalpa (Edificio Villatoro), with a consular birth certificate authenticated by the Foreign Ministry.
- Unverified: turnaround for the RNP incorporation.
- From CA, GB, AU, NZ, ZA, BR, AR: file at the Honduran embassy or consulate for your country; apostille the local certificate.
- Only 3 of Honduras's 19 U.S. consular posts have confirmed addresses above (Miami, Houston, New York); no state-jurisdiction map was found for the rest despite two search passes (2026-09-25) — confirm the assigned post at booking rather than assuming a nearest-post rule.
- Naturalization-proof requirement is completely unresearched.
Checked 25 September 2026 · source ↗
Estimates are honest ranges from official fee tables and what families report; where a fee or time could not be confirmed, it says so.
08Where the records live
Where each record lives, and how to ask for it
birth1880–2026
The Registro Nacional de las Personas (RNP), which holds the municipal civil registry books of all 298 municipalities and issues certified birth certifications ('partida de nacimiento original digital').
One national registry: name, date and municipality of birth, or the parent's identity-card number.
- Takes
- 1–6 weeks
Good to know (4)›
- Unverified: an online channel for requests from abroad and the current fee. In practice a relative in Honduras or the consulate obtains the digital partida; consular passport rules ask for the 'partida de nacimiento original digital'.
- Prior research found rnp.hn serves only fragmentary content to automated fetchers; a browser works.
- A contact email, rnphonduras@gmail.com, was found via RNP's own Facebook page (not a .hn government address); treat as low confidence.
- Whether a descendant abroad (not the record holder) may request the RNP birth certificate directly is unconfirmed; the SIN RNP mobile app needs the record holder's own ID barcode.
Checked 25 September 2026 · source ↗
Translations
- Into
- Spanish
- Who may translate
- Any certified translator
- About
- $20–$60 a page
Unverified: whether Honduran consulates accept an English U.S. birth certificate untranslated. Secondary sources describe consulates registering from the apostilled U.S. certificate; budget a certified Spanish translation in case the post asks. Price range unverified.
Checked 25 September 2026 · source ↗
The passport
- Where
- A Honduran consulate, by appointment, with the Honduran identity card (or, lacking one, the digital birth partida plus a Honduran photo document or U.S. residence document). $60 for five years, $75 for ten (under 21: five years only); money order only.
- Fee
- About $60
- Time
- 2–9 weeks
Checked 25 September 2026 · source ↗
09Law changes
Recent and pending changes
The legislative watch has no pending bill or recent ruling recorded for Honduras.
The watch re-reads the official pages behind this guide every day. When one changes, a person re-checks the rule before anything here moves.
10Other doors
If descent doesn’t reach you
2 residence programs lead to Honduras without an ancestor, each with its own law and road to citizenship.
11Sources
Every source on this page
2 laws and official pages behind the answers, then the offices and pages behind the records and filing. Records and filing checked 25 September 2026.
- LawConstitution of Honduras, Art. 23(2): children born abroad to a Honduran parent by birth · Art. 23(2)
- LawDecree 13-2001 (La Gaceta 29,423, 8 March 2001), interpreting Constitution Art. 23(2)
- RecordsThe Registro Nacional de las Personas (RNP): Your parent’s Honduran birth certificate (partida de nacimiento)
- RecordsHow to file: Citizen by descent · checked 25 September 2026
- RecordsConsular birth-registration request (formulario de inscripción provided by the consulate) · checked 25 September 2026
- RecordsSRECI Cita Consular (a second, parallel system, ACOS, is also in use in 2026) · checked 25 September 2026
- RecordsThe passport: where, the fee and the wait · checked 25 September 2026
Not legal advice. Postern’s rulebook is written from the statutes and tested against documented cases; where the law is unsettled, the answer says “possible” or “unsure” rather than guess.