Important update on 25 June 2025
From July 2022 to June 2025, a programme was in effect between Australia and New Zealand allowing eligible refugees subject to offshore processing to express interest in resettlement in New Zealand. The programme was for people transferred offshore to Nauru or Papua New Guinea by Australia between 19 July 2013 and 31 December 2014, and who were in Nauru or Australia. The programme provided for up to 450 eligible refugees to be resettled to New Zealand. The programme is now closed and UNHCR is not accepting further expressions of interest in New Zealand resettlement.
If you were transferred offshore between 19 July 2013 and 31 December 2014, and are interested in being considered for any similar programme should future resettlement opportunities arise, you may register your details here. Submitting your information here is not a formal expression of interest, nor does it mean that you will be considered for resettlement. In the form, you will be asked for basic identity information, contact details, and information about the date and context of your arrival in Australia.
Outside the scope of the Australia-New Zealand resettlement arrangement, UNHCR continues its work for those remaining in Papua New Guinea.
If you would like to register your details so that UNHCR may contact you if a future opportunity arises, please proceed here: Abbreviated Resettlement Interest Form