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The National Vocational Training Institute (INFOP) offers more than 100 online courses to serve Hondurans living abroad, expanding access to professional development for the diaspora.

El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras received $29.1 billion in remittances in the first seven months of 2026, a 7.1% increase from the same period in 2025, with Honduras seeing an 11.2% year-over-year gain.

Community leader Isaac Dubón says Honduras's newly approved migrant-return and asset-protection law is stuck in Customs, Finance, and Foreign Affairs and demands the government explain the delay.

Honduras's Judicial System has launched an online platform allowing Hondurans abroad to request criminal-background certificates and notarized documents from anywhere without traveling to Honduras.

The president of Olanchanos Unidos foundation says the Foreign Ministry takes up to five months to repatriate Hondurans who die abroad, and urges faster action on humanitarian grounds; funeral homes have offered credit to help.

Family remittances to Honduras reached $6.59 billion in the first half of 2026, a 11.9% jump from the same period last year and above the Central Bank's projected 3.5% growth; if the trend holds, annual remittances may exceed $13.5 billion.

Honduras received $6.51 billion in family remittances in the first six months of 2026, a 12.3% increase from the same period in 2025, with over 85% coming from the United States and mothers receiving 38.6% of the total.

A Fosdeh economist attributes a recent increase in remittances to Honduras partly to Hondurans in the United States sending money home due to deportation concerns, while others continue migrating and supporting their families abroad.