To all who are looking for their "blue bird"! The first part of Alla Barkan's "Emigrant's Handbook" trilogy - "The Basics of Emigration" - is devoted to the peculiarities of preparation for the emigration process and life in immigration. The book is based on various sources, such as media and scientific research, but not only. It also provides data from the author's personal experience. The book also summarizes the results of numerous consultations given by the author to Russian-speaking emigrants. Among the latter are both adults and children, people who have left for different waves of emigration, live in different countries of the world and emigrated for a variety of reasons: from labor migration to emigration such as "marry abroad."