# Newcomer guides

_Programme · Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council · https://iranians.global/civic/programmes/newcomer-guides/_

Country guides for newcomers: information and referrals, never legal advice.

## Record

- **Platform**: Civic
- **State**: in-preparation
- **Lede**: Newcomer guides are in preparation. Each guide covers the first year in one host country.
- **Country guides**: Housing, health care, schools, work and public services, country by country.
- **Asylum and nationality**: Plain explanations of how asylum and nationality law work.
- **Referrals**: Referrals to qualified legal and immigration services.
- **Dates checked**: Each guide states when it was last checked.
- **Audience**: Newcomers, Asylum seekers, Students, Local guides and volunteers
- **Step 1**: Choose: a person chooses their country.
- **Step 2**: Read: they read the guide.
- **Step 3**: Referral: they are pointed to qualified services.
- **Step 4**: Update: guides are revised when rules change.

## Provenance

Records updated 2026-11-11. Every value keeps its measure, year, source and label (verified, secondary, to verify); unknown is shown as unknown. Verify, add a source or report this record on its page.

## Formats

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## See also

- [Civic](https://iranians.global/civic/)