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Australia Has Released Its Agreement to Send the NZYQ Cohort to Nauru. The Promise Against Onward Return Depends on a Thirty-Year Visa.
RNZ Pacific reported on 9 September 2026 that the Australian government had released the memorandum of understanding under which Nauru, which the United Nations now lists as Naoero, is to take people from the group known as the NZYQ cohort: non-citizens released after the High Court held in 2023 that Australia could not keep detaining people whose removal was not reasonably foreseeable. The memorandum was signed on 29 August 2025, when the Home Affairs minister, Tony Burke, met Nauru’s President, David Adeang, his cabinet and the Nauruan Parliament.
Two Advocates General Have Advised the Court of Justice on Italy’s Centres in Albania. The Court Has Not Yet Ruled.
In opinions of 23 April and 11 June 2026, two Advocates General told the Court of Justice of the European Union that EU law does not in principle prevent Italy from holding people in centres in Albania. The second opinion proposes that the Court find several features of the arrangement incompatible with EU law. No judgment has been delivered.