Honduras

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

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Residencia Pensionado

Residency status permitting indefinite stay without local employment.

Guaranteed permanent pension of at least $1,500 a month from abroad, received through a Honduran financial institution.
Secretaría de Gobernación, Justicia y Descentralización, requisitos para residencia como pensionado
The residence application charge is $300; the residence card then costs $20 for each year issued.
Honduras official pensionado checklist and INM card-fee requirements
A July 2025 Ministerial Agreement also allows a discretionary "exceptional residency" for applicants meeting at least half of a category’s economic requirement.
Library of Congress, Global Legal Monitor: Honduras Rules Issued on Exceptional Residency

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

2 questions, from the program’s own rules.

Steady monthly income, from any source?

Not legal advice.

Income: At least $1,500 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 $1,500 monthly pension must be permanent, stable and foreign-sourced, 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.

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

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.
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

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

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

Prepare the pensionado checklist and file the application addressed to Honduras’s Secretaría de Gobernación, Justicia y Descentralización.Open tramitedigital.sgjd.gob.hn ↗
Gather these documents.
- Proof of steady income: at least $1,500 a month
- Request your FBI Identity History Summary
- Health cover for the move

The official application forms, submission and recovery specification are not complete. Postern cannot run this application yet.

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