Honduran citizenship by descent

Who qualifies, generation by generation

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.

Claiming through your mother or grandmother

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:

• Persons born abroad to a father or mother who is Honduran by birth are Honduran by birth. Constitution of Honduras, Art. 23(2): children born abroad to a Honduran parent by birth, Art. 23(2) ↗

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.

• Holding this citizenship alongside another is addressed by the law cited; check the current position before relying on it. Constitution of Honduras, Art. 23(2): children born abroad to a Honduran parent by birth ↗

Every way to apply, and the law behind it

The documents, as the rule lists them

Most countries also want proof that your ancestor didn’t become a citizen somewhere else before their child was born: the naturalization record with its date, or a letter saying there isn’t one.

What it takes: time, cost, the hard part, who decides

Fees are each office’s published fee, converted to U.S. dollars.

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.

  Ask

  Through an agent, in Spanish · request page ↗

  Takes

  1–4 weeks

  Good to know (2)›

  • The Honduran parent downloads their own certification free in the RNP’s RNP MOVIL app by scanning their identity card, as a PDF by email. A Honduran consulate also prints it from the full name or identity number.
  • RNP contact centre: centrodecontacto@rnp.hn, +504 2247-9898.

  source ↗

Recent and pending changes

We know of no pending bill or recent court ruling for Honduras.

We re-read the official pages behind this guide every day. When one changes, a person checks the rule before we update anything here.

If descent doesn’t reach you

2 residence programs lead to Honduras without an ancestor, each with its own law and road to citizenship.

• Income or savingsResidencia Rentista

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

• RetirementResidencia Pensionado

  Honduras grants residency to retirees with a guaranteed pension of at least $1,500 a month from abroad.

Every source on this page

2 laws and official pages behind the answers, then the offices and pages behind the records and filing.

1. LawConstitution of Honduras, Art. 23(2): children born abroad to a Honduran parent by birth · Art. 23(2)
2. LawDecree 13-2001 (La Gaceta 29,423, 8 March 2001), interpreting Constitution Art. 23(2)
3. RecordsThe Registro Nacional de las Personas (RNP): Your parent’s Honduran birth certificate (partida de nacimiento)
4. RecordsHow to file: Citizen by descent
5. RecordsNone at the RNP: its windows in the Edificio Villatoro take files in person. Under 21, the consular route is booked on SRECI Cita Consular.
6. RecordsBirth records, 1880–2026: The Registro Nacional de las Personas
7. RecordsTranslations into Spanish
8. RecordsThe passport: where, the fee and the wait

Not legal advice. Every answer comes from the country’s own laws and is tested against real cases. Where the law isn’t clear, we say “possible” rather than guess.