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Residencia Rentista. Honduras grants residency to people of independent means with stable income of at least $2,500 a month, from Honduras or abroad.

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Residencia Rentista

Residency status, temporary and renewable, permitting indefinite stay without local employment.

Who qualifies

Whether you keep your U.S. citizenship depends on the option you choose later.

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Does it fit your family?

One question, from the program’s own rules.

Steady monthly income, from any source?

Not legal advice.

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What it takes.

Income
At least $2,500 a month, steady and documented.
Time
File through the Secretaría General, then register the approval with the Instituto Nacional de Migración within 30 days of receiving it.
Cost
$300 application charge, plus $20 for each year of the residence card and document legalisation costs.
The hard part
The $2,500 monthly income must be permanent, lawful and stable, with the evidence legalised and translated for the Secretaría General filing.

Dollar figures are converted from the local currency at the rate the program’s research used; the official figure is in the local currency.

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Citizens by 2031.

If your first permit is issued in 2027 and you keep living there, this is the road.

  1. 2027
    First residence permit

    5 years, renewable for 5 years at a time.

  2. 2030
    Apply for citizenship

    With a language test and a civics test.

  3. 2031
    Citizenship
Language
Read, write and speak Spanish.
Civics
A written exam on Honduran history, geography and the Constitution, held every three months, with one retake after six months.
Time away
More than three consecutive years of legal residence. The constitutional test is consecutive residence rather than a stated annual day count.
Two passports
It depends on the rules at the time and on your home country.
  • Resident status from the start; cards are issued for up to five years, and citizenship is possible after more than three years (one or two for Central Americans, Spaniards and Ibero-Americans).
  • How long the decision takes isn’t published; we allow a year.
  • Whether you can keep your current citizenship depends on the rules at the time and your home country.
The law behind these dates
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Living there.

Time you must spend there
Keep the residence card valid and renew it with current evidence of rentista income; the naturalisation option requires more than 3 consecutive years of legal residence.
Tax
Foreign-sourced income for rentistas and pensionados is not taxed by Honduras.

We never file a tax return. We tell you what applies and brief the professional who does.

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Start today.

  1. Prepare the rentista checklist and file the application addressed to Honduras’s Secretaría de Gobernación, Justicia y Descentralización.Open tramitedigital.sgjd.gob.hn ↗
  2. Gather these documents.
    • Proof of steady income: at least $2,500 a month
    • Request your FBI Identity History Summary
    • Health cover for the move
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Postern can’t run this for you yet.

Postern cannot run this application yet. Missing: First INM registration and card-renewal form originals were not retrievable from the official PDF endpoints; the registry request fields and renewal mapping remain incomplete The current TGR-1 instructions and combined USD/HNL charges for first registration, stamps, certification and annual card renewal have not been established A Honduran lawyer's application procedure, representation documents, local police/medical procurement and the applicable ongoing presence obligations must be defined before filing

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