Honduras will charge $15 for consular appointments in the United States

Tegucigalpa, Honduras. – The Vice-Chancellor of the Republic, Antonio García, reports that from February they intend to collect money $15 For dating at 14 Honduran Consulates in the United States.

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The diplomat indicated that the charges will be charged because many citizens make appointments – which are free of charge – and do not arrive at the end on the appointed day.

“At the moment anyone who wants to make an appointment has to wait up to three or four months, and there is also another problem because in 40% of cases people don’t make it to the appointed time, which results in space being written off from those who might. .a real problem”, Hindi.

Garcia made the case of someone having more than 800 appointments in 2022, so they’re hoping to make the process more serious.

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“A lot of people just ask for appointments and a lot of times they don’t go until they reschedule a few times and even last year there was a record of someone being a coyote and booking 800 appointments, so we think if we charge for the appointment, it’s going to be more serious because people don’t want to. to lose their money.”

The Vice-Chancellor commented that they will socialize fees with expats and people with appointments in February or March will not have to make any payments.