TRAVEL ADVICE · ENTRY & DOCUMENTS
British Citizens No Longer Need a Visa for Honduras
Since October 31, 2026, British citizens can visit Honduras for up to 90 days without a visa. For the two years before that, anyone flying into Roatán on a UK passport had to arrange a consular visa before leaving home, and the number of British visitors fell by more than three quarters.
If you looked into a Roatán trip in 2025 and gave up over the paperwork, that obstacle is gone.
What changed
Honduras published Agreement No. 005-SG-2026 in its official gazette, La Gaceta, on October 31, 2026. It moves UK nationals from Category B, where a consular visa is required, to Category A, where no visa is needed. The Bay Islands Tourism Bureau announced the change here on the island, and the UK government updated its own Honduras travel advice on November 5.
What you still need
- A full British citizen passport that is valid for at least six months after the day you arrive, with at least two blank pages.
- A 30-day entry stamp. The exemption allows up to 90 days, but the stamp you get at the airport is for 30. Staying longer means applying at an immigration office to extend.
- The Honduran customs declaration form, filled in online before you land and again before you leave. Customs will ask to see the QR code, on paper or on your phone.
- Departure tax of roughly US$40 to $55 is normally built into your airline ticket, so check before you assume you owe it at the airport.
Coming on a cruise
Day visitors from cruise ships were never the ones the visa hit hardest. Even while it was in force, GOV.UK’s advice was that cruise passengers could go ashore on a short pass for the hours the ship was in port. Now there is nothing extra to arrange at all. Carry what your cruise line asks for, and plan the day around your ship’s departure: how to plan your Roatán port day.
Why there was a visa in the first place
The UK started requiring visas from Honduran nationals on July 19, 2023, pointing to a sharp rise in asylum applications, and suspended a visa agreement between the two countries dating from 1962. Honduras answered with a visa requirement of its own for British nationals, which took effect on August 15, 2024.
The effect showed up quickly. Honduran press, quoting immigration figures, reported British arrivals falling from 5,228 in 2023 to 1,005 in 2025. That drop is the reason given for lifting the requirement now.
Hong Kong and British territory passports
The Bay Islands Tourism Bureau’s notice says the change also covers British passports issued in Hong Kong that read “Nationality British”, and people from other British territories. GOV.UK’s page only speaks for full British citizen passports.
If you travel on a British National (Overseas) passport or a passport from a British Overseas Territory, confirm with the Honduran Embassy in London before you book. Some official pages are also behind: on November 12, 2026, the Embassy of Honduras in Canada’s website still said all British citizens need a visa.
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