US visitor visa refusal rate for applicants from Honduras

The US refused 46.52% of visitor (B1/B2) visa applications from Honduras in FY2025, so about 53.5% were approved — rank 64 of 198 nationalities, down 15.19 points on FY2019. Source: US State Department adjusted refusal rates.

FY2025 refusal rate46.52% ▲ +3.91 pts vs FY2024
Global rank#64 of 198 nationalities
vs FY2019-15.19 points, against pre-pandemic
Year-to-year swing±12.29 typical annual move

Honduras's adjusted refusal rate for US visitor (B) visas was 46.52% in FY2025. That ranks 64 of 198 nationalities — higher than 68% of countries. It rose 3.91 points from 42.61% in FY2024. Against FY2019, the last pre-pandemic year published, it is 15.19 points lower. Over the 18 published years its highest was 61.71% (FY2019) and its lowest 12.38% (FY2021). Within Latin America & Caribbean it ranks 6 of 33.

For context, across all nationalities in FY2024 the US refused 27.8% of B1/B2 applications and 41.0% of F-1 student applications. Those are worldwide figures — the government does not publish an F-1 refusal rate for Honduras or for any single country. Why not.

The full published history

Adjusted refusal rate (%)0204060802006200920122015202020232025FY17–18 not published46.52%

Get told when this changes

The State Department publishes these figures once a year with no announcement, and has skipped years entirely. We check the source daily and will email you when the number for Honduras moves. No newsletter, no marketing — just the data changing.

Closest peers by current rate

The countries whose FY2025 rate sits nearest to Honduras’s, either side.

CountryFY2025RankTrend
Vanuatu46.88%#63
Tonga47.21%#62
Georgia45.57%#65
Egypt47.61%#61
Tajikistan47.83%#60

Elsewhere in Latin America & Caribbean

How Honduras’s neighbours compare on the same measure.

CountryFY2025Rank
Cuba70.86%#12
El Salvador58.22%#38
Nicaragua53.15%#49
Haiti50.26%#58
Venezuela48.22%#59
Jamaica44.26%#69
Grenada43.73%#70
Dominica42.89%#71

Every published year

Fiscal yearRefusal rate Change
FY200638.00%—
FY200737.70%-0.30
FY200833.60%-4.10
FY200929.20%-4.40
FY201029.20%+0.00
FY201127.60%-1.60
FY201229.80%+2.20
FY201337.00%+7.20
FY201436.80%-0.20
FY201539.73%+2.93
FY201642.76%+3.03
FY201961.71%+18.95
FY202052.10%-9.61
FY202112.38%-39.72
FY202230.47%+18.09
FY202333.79%+3.32
FY202442.61%+8.82
FY202546.52%+3.91

FY2017 and FY2018 are absent because the State Department never published them.

Questions people ask

What is the US visa refusal rate for applicants from Honduras?

46.52% for B1/B2 visitor visas in FY2025, according to the US State Department's adjusted refusal rate, which ranks Honduras 64 of 198.

Is there a US student (F-1) visa refusal rate for applicants from Honduras?

No. The State Department publishes refusal rates by nationality only for B visitor visas. F-1 and H-1B refusal rates exist only as worldwide totals, so any country-specific student visa refusal rate is an estimate, not an official figure.

What does the adjusted refusal rate count?

Each applicant once per fiscal year at final status: refusals minus refusals later overcome, divided by issuances plus that net refusal count.

Source

US Department of State, Calculation of the Adjusted Visa Refusal Rate for Tourist and Business Travelers Under the Guidelines of the Visa Waiver Program, FY2006–FY2025. One PDF per fiscal year. Primary source ↗

The adjusted rate is (refusals − overcomes) ÷ (issuances + refusals − overcomes), counting each applicant once per fiscal year at final status and excluding cases that required a waiver of ineligibility. Rank, change, volatility and peer figures on this page are computed by us from that data and are not published by the government.