SETTLEMENT AND PROTECTION SUPPORTS
Refugee Support
Find settlement, legal, health and community support while using official sources for immigration processes.
What this means
Refugee support can include legal services, settlement, health care, housing, food, language learning and trauma-informed community support. Immigration processes and everyday settlement needs should be handled through the appropriate qualified service.
Step-by-step
- Address immediate safety, shelter, food and health needs
- Record every immigration or hearing deadline
- Find qualified legal assistance
- Connect with settlement and language services
- Protect identity and case documents
- Ask for trauma-informed, language and accessibility support
What to prepare privately
Keep sensitive records secure. This website does not need passports, SINs, banking credentials, immigration portal passwords or complete case files for an initial inquiry.
- Official notices and deadlines
- Safe contact information
- Immediate household needs
- Preferred language
- A private chronology for a qualified legal professional
How to use this resource
- Use qualified legal help for case advice
- Protect confidential documents
- Connect with verified settlement organizations
Before you continue
Can I rely on this guide?
Use it to understand the process, organize questions and choose the next step. It does not make a government decision or replace advice for an individual case.
What changes most often?
Eligibility rules, forms, fees, processing information, program availability, service hours and contact details can change. The review dates below show when our sources were checked.
When should I get help?
Use a verified settlement or community service for navigation. Seek an authorized professional when legal interpretation, strategy, a refusal, a hearing or an important deadline is involved.
Continue on DurhamImmigration.com
Your next step should stay on this site. Official-source links are kept separately below for final verification only.
Official sources checked
The guide above is written to answer the practical question on DurhamImmigration.com. These links are supporting evidence and the final place to confirm details that can change. Last reviewed: August 30, 2026.