No onshore arrivals in 57 days: govt

There have been no onshore arrivals from asylum seeker boats this week, the Department of Immigration says.

Passengers after an asylum seeker boat capsized off Christmas Island

The Department of Immigration says no asylum seeker boats made it on shore this week. (AAP)

No asylum seeker boats made it on shore this week, the immigration department says.

In its weekly Operation Sovereign Borders report, the Department of Immigration said there now had been no onshore arrivals for 57 days.

Over the week, 60 people were transferred to the offshore processing centre in Nauru; 19 people elected to go home.

Two detainees were forcibly removed.

Authorities last Friday arrested an Iraqi man in Queensland and charged him with one count of people smuggling.


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