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Honduras's ambassador to Spain announced that about 2,000 additional Honduran workers have been pre-selected for agricultural jobs in Spain, building on an existing group of 1,100 already in the country, with selection to begin in October for January arrival.

Honduran graduates of the National Autonomous University seeking to homologate or obtain degree equivalency in Spain must follow a series of steps, including requesting grade certification through the UNAH registry and securing authentication and apostille of their documents.

Honduras ranked among Spain's top immigrant nationalities in the second quarter of 2026, with 7,600 Hondurans arriving and 2,700 departing during that period, according to Spain's Continuous Population Statistics.

Isaac Ruiz, a 14-year-old striker with a Honduran mother, transferred from Girona's youth system to Atlético Madrid's academy after scoring 44 goals in 48 matches over two seasons with the Spanish club.

Spain has made available 2,000 additional job openings for Hondurans following diplomatic negotiations by Honduras's embassy in Madrid.

Over 56,300 Hondurans applied for Spain's extraordinary regularization program that closed June 30, making them the fifth-largest nationality group after Colombians, Moroccans, Venezuelans, and Peruvians, with decisions expected within three months.

Kenneth Daniel Banegas Mejía, 17, a Honduran youth footballer playing in Granada's amateur leagues, died after falling from a rooftop in Almuñécar, Spain; his clubs and the regional football federation mourned the loss of a talented player compared by teammates to Ronaldinho.

About 1,600 agricultural workers from Honduras and Guatemala will travel to Spain in 2026 for temporary fruit-picking jobs in Huelva under circular-migration programs that the Inter-American Development Bank describes as orderly and safe labor mobility.