VISAIn Aug 2024, in response to the UK changing their policy and requiring a visa for Honduras travelers, Honduras also changed their policies and started requiring a visa for British travelers wanting to visit. This has discouraged UK passport holders from visiting Honduras, which is really a shame, as Honduras is a beautiful country to discover. For British travelers that have wanted to get the visa and come, finding out information on what is required has also been difficult. I've recently had UK guests who have completed the visa process, one from the Canadian Consulate in Montreal, as he was in Canada before his trip down, and a couple who did the process in Guatemala while they were traveling. Both said that the easiest would probably be in London, England before traveling, but as travel dates and accommodation arrangements need to be done for the visa, sometimes that's not an option.
Here is the information I've gathered on the process, just to give future British travelers an idea of requirements. I would suggest getting in touch with the Honduran consulate to verify requirements.
Payment: $30US for up to 30 days, or $60 for up to 90 days. In Canada, the payment had to be done as a bank draft. In Guatemala, visa applicants are sent with a form to a nearby.
VISA APPLICATION UK PASSPORT-information provided from guests that did the process in Canada
Consulate office: 1255 Blvd Robert-Bourassa #500, Montreal, Quebec H3B 3V8, Canada [email protected] Phone: +1 514-439-7151
-book appt online, get money order to take to appointment
-get an email from where you are staying with the details of your reservation
-bank statement from the last 3 months
-2 passport photos
-online form printed and filled out
No police check was requested for this guest. The visa was granted right at the time of the appointment, which took around an hour.
VISA APPLICATION UK PASSPORT-information provided from guests that did the process in Guatemala:
[email protected]
You will need the following documents if you are applying for a Honduras visa:
- Proof of where you will be staying in Honduras
- Letter in Spanish explaining your reason of visiting the country, where you’ll be staying and who you’ll be traveling with and how you have funded your trip
- 3 months of recent bank statements
- 3 months of payslips (if your not working state that your not working) but you’ll have to explain how you funded your trip in your Spanish letter so just put “we saved for x amount of time for this trip”
- criminal background check which you can get on the DBS website just a basic one I think it’s £22. Online it says the certificate takes 14 days or 14 days to process but when you apply you can track your application process and view your results online we just did this and it took 48 hours. You then need to take a screenshot of it or send the view link to the embassy
- 2 passport sized photos
- photocopy of your passport on the photo page
- photo of driving licence or another photo ID
- proof of travel in and out of Honduras if you don’t know just explain in your Spanish letter that you plan to stay for 30 days and you will travel overland from your destination to your next destination by bus. They didn’t ask to see any flight details or bus tickets but I think it depends who you have at your appointment or you could explain that you will book onwards travel once the visa is approved
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Note from the travelers that did this application in Guatemala "There was a list of other stuff but it didn’t apply to us. If you have all these documents prepared in advance I think you can email them to the office. They will then email you back within 7 days and will send you a link to book a face to face appointment. You could take the chance and turn up to the embassy in person with all these documents and try to get one the same day but not sure how that works we tried to do that but we had no documents so was turned away "
VISA APPLICATION for UK Passport -application processed in El Salvador
List of documents we provided (printed)
Application form
Colour Copy of Passport and 1 other ID (we did our driving licence)
DBS Check (criminal record): can be ordered online https://www.gov.uk/request-copy-criminal-record Takes a day to get a link with it, which a screenshot will be sufficient. Paper copy gets sent by post, and is not needed
Cover letter explaining reason for visit (sample below)
We needed a letter from our employer (previous employer in our case as we are traveling for a year)
Bank statements/credit card statements/proof of savings
Tickets to show entry and exit into the country
Confirmation emails for all the accommodation booked
These travelers submitted documents on Friday, got a message on Monday that it was approved and to book an appt to get the visa, which they opted to do on Thurs. They didn't have to pay an upfront fee and the fee is only payable once confirmation of approval has been received.
SAMPLE COVER LETTER:
Consulate Honduras Embassy
Dear sirs,
Our main reason for wanting to obtain a tourist visa is to ______
The trip will be funded through savings which have accumulated from working as an XX (support 1 –
letter from work). I have included my bank statement for the past 3 months (support 2) along with
my credit card from the past 3 months (support 3) which shows a credit limit of XX.
Itinerary
Insert details showing transportation, dates and accommodations, and include confirmations from accommodations
Kind regards,
SPANISH TRANSLATION
Estimados senores,
Nuestra principal razón para obtener una visa de turista es ______
El viaje se financiará con los ahorros acumulados trabajando como XX (apoyo 1 – carta del trabajo). He incluido mi extracto bancario de los últimos 3 meses (apoyo 2) junto con mi tarjeta de crédito de los últimos 3 meses (apoyo 3), que muestra un límite de crédito de XX.
Itinerario Insertar detalles que muestren transporte, fechas y alojamiento, e incluir confirmaciones de alojamiento. Atentamente,
Are you a British traveler who has gotten a Honduran visa in the UK or in one of the surrounding countries? I'd love to hear about your experience, so I can update this blog post with the most accurate information possible for future visitors. Please email [email protected] with details of your experience.
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