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The Nauru Regional Processing Centre is an offshore Australian immigration detention facility in use from 2001 to 2008, from 2012 to 2019, and from September 2021. It is located on the South Pacific island nation of Nauru and run by the Government of Nauru .
Australian immigration detention facilities comprise a number of different facilities throughout Australia, including the Australian territory of Christmas Island. [1] Such facilities also exist in Papua New Guinea and Nauru, namely the Nauru Regional Processing Centre and the Manus Regional Processing Centre.
Nauru Regional Processing Centre: Operational: Maximum: Broadspectrum with security subcontracted to Wilson Security, [13] [5] and then later Canstruct (October 2017 – November 2018) 2001–2008, 2012–present [14] 1,200: Nauru: Northern Immigration Detention Centre: Operational: Maximum: Department of Immigration and Border Protection ...
The number of asylum seekers assessed as genuine refugees via the Pacific Solution process was lower than for onshore processing. [citation needed] 68 per cent of the asylum seekers were deemed genuine refugees and less than 40 per cent of asylum seekers sent to Nauru received resettlement in Australia.
The Christmas Island Detention Centre, designed as a temporary holding centre, was set up, and asylum seekers were directed from there to nearby island nations Papua New Guinea, to be housed in the Manus Island Regional Processing Centre and Nauru, to the Nauru Regional Processing Centre. There, asylum seekers had to undergo a lengthy process ...
Australia said on Tuesday its funding for the refugee centre, which is a key part of its policy to deter asylum seekers arriving in Australian waters by boat, hasn't changed. "Nauru remains an ...
Nauru is a small and remote Pacific Island nation that uses Australian currency and generates revenue from fishing licences and hosting a regional processing centre for refugees for the Australian ...
In 2014, the status of asylum seekers sent to offshore processing centres in Nauru Regional Processing Centre and Manus Regional Processing Centre was decided: 13 people (9 people from Iran and 4 people from Pakistan) were granted asylum, while 7 people (from Iran, Pakistan, and Cameroon) received negative assessments. The asylum protection in ...