Australia refuses to resettle any of them and President Donald Trump has agreed to honour an Obama administration deal to take up to 1,250 of them. However, Trump added that they will undergo “extreme vetting.”
Officials from the US State Department’s Resettlement Support Center left Nauru last week after initial interviews with refugee candidates and a team arrived on Papua New Guinea’s men-only camp on Manus Island on Tuesday to commence interviews there, refugee advocate Ian Rintoul said.
The US Embassy in Canberra did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Manus Island interviews.
