Can i live in honduras

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See moving or retiring abroad. See overseas British passports applications and get an emergency travel document sometimes called an emergency passport. You should buy comprehensive travel and medical insurance before you enter the country. The NHS has information for people moving abroad. You should check your prescriptions are legal in Honduras.

Medical care outside the main cities is limited. Medical care in public hospitals is free but sometimes public hospitals experience serious shortages of basic medicines and equipment. Private medical care is available but can be expensive. Private hospitals might require payment prior to giving treatment to patients, even if personal medical insurance covers the cost of treatment.

All hospitals might ask payment in advance. More information about the Honduras public health system can be found on the website of the Secretaria de Salud. British nationals can work in country if authorised to work and have the appropriate permissions to do so.

Contact the Honduras Embassy in London for further details. For matters related to recognition of educational qualifications, please contact the Secretaria de Educacion. The Secretaria de Educacion promotes education in Guatemala, verifies educational centres and provides other services related to education. See tax if you leave the UK to live abroad and tax on your UK income if you live abroad. If opening a personal bank account, you will be expected to present documentation to prove that you live in Honduras, your address in Honduras, place of work and the names of people in Honduras who can give references about you.

You will also be asked to explain the origin of the funds that will be deposited in your account. If interested in investing in Honduras, please contact the Embassy of Honduras in London for information. If you need more guidance on local law, the British Embassy provides a list of English speaking lawyers and translators in Honduras. You may be able to pay National Insurance while abroad in order to protect your State Pension and entitlement to other benefits and allowances.

Read our guidance on entitlement to UK benefits and pensions while you are living in Honduras. You will need to tell the UK government offices that deal with your benefits, pension and tax if you are moving or retiring abroad. Check which benefits you can claim while abroad and how to claim them. You can apply for a temporary international driving permit or exchange your UK licence. The Secretary of Justice processes these in Tegucigalpa. You will need to work with a Honduran attorney to get your residency card.

It takes up to nine months to process an application for a retirement residency card, but Americans may enter Honduras on a tourist visa and begin their application process in country. Be sure to bring your passport, police record, a health certificate, a passport photo and any residence-related documents with you when you enter Honduras as your residency application will require them. Honduras does not have a robust public health system. The World Health Organization ranks it st out of countries.

Therefore, many retirees choose to get private healthcare insurance and live near private hospitals. People can purchase healthcare insurance in Honduras or before leaving home.

There are several hour hospitals in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, all popular with American expats. The major issues for me is the police. Once you give them a fresco soda they will not ever stop asking. With me they have gone way overboard. Roatan has a lower crime rate than the mainland, but there is still crime. A few precautions will help you: don't leave a bag unattended on the beach or on the back of a bar stool when you're out, avoid poorly lit areas without other people around, don't keep much cash with you.

If you'll be taking much expensive stuff laptop, smartphone etc , get it covered with your insurance just in case," advised another expat. I have lived here for 25 years with no problems. I would recommend renting an apartment for a month in any area you are considering. Just to get a feel for the place and the costs. There are a lot of people living in the La Cieba area on the coast where the ferry leaves from for Roatan and Utilla.

I live on the beach in Ciniquita which is very close to Omoa and Puerto Cortes. Let me know if I can help you in any way. This can be a very nice place to live. Check out what is available for your medical needs. That can be important," suggested another expat.

Many expats live in Roatan, Utila and Copan, and I think there's a pretty strong expat community in La Ceiba and maybe Trujillo too there's a new development there that seems to be attracting a lot of Canadian investors ," said one person who relocated to Honduras. Labor is the cheapest commodity in Honduras but sufficiently lacks in Quality.

Clothes manufacturing and other similar industries exist here for many of the same reasons that they exist in China with abundant natural resources and a inexpensive labor force," explained one expat. I believe it stands for General Box. The way it works is that you set up an account with one of the shipping companies that offer the service -- I use TransExpress.

They have an address in Doral Miami , Florida. I pay for the service -- they offer different rate packages and pay for shipping from Miami to Honduras and of course, some duty. The packages require a Commercial Invoice as all countries require to pass through Customs, but with Amazon it's hit or miss with a CI so I just email my Amazon invoice to them and they handle the rest. Amazon is not the only retailer I ship from. Whomever ships can ship to the GBox.

If you are shipping personal belongings, put a very very low value and write 'Used goods, for personal use only,' which tends to result in very low duty. O Box set up in Miami. She ships everything to the P. Box and then a shipping company forwards everything to Honduras for a fee of course. Items shipped using Amazon new items usually have a copy of an invoice so they do not get held up.

If you are shipping used items or personal household items you will have to create your own invoice to send with the items," added another expat.

One person asked about cell phones in Honduras , "I am moving to Honduras in August , but I will be returning frequently to the US.

My current cell phone plan is not viable Verizon. What is recommended? One expat replied, "All you have to do is purchase a Honduran sim card from Tigo or Claro. I use Tigo. I just switch them when I go back and forth. Or you can buy a cheap cell phone here but I prefer using my regular phone. I took my old Samsung ATT phone and spent 2 days unlocking it before being able to put a chip in it.

Talk to your cell phone carrier in the states before going they have to give you the code. It also has to be a phone that can be used internationally, all ATT phones are but I don't think all Vorizon phones are. Amazon sells quite a few unlocked phones cheap -- this is also another option. The chip, minutes and data are reasonable in Honduras and can be purchased for short periods of time at many locations. You may want to go to a pay as you go plan in order to not have a monthly bill. As far as Honduras you will need a phone that is unlocked and able to be used in other countries.

As far as I know Verizon phones run on a different system than most of the other countries use. We took our ATT phone down and discovered we had to get it unlocked. Once we did that it worked fine with a chip from one of the Honduras companies. You can buy unlocked phones on amazon they have a large selection. With 2 phones you will not need to switch sim cards back and forth," suggested one expat.

I've lived on the island for 17 years, I'm here with 2 boys, 10 and