Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says there's no pause in US interviews with detainees on Nauru, amid uncertainty over whether America will honour a refugee settlement deal.
Detainees applying to settle in America under the deal had their planned second-round interview dates with US officials postponed indefinitely, Reuters reported on Friday.
But Ms Bishop told reporters in while on the election trail in WA on Saturday that she understood interviewing and vetting was still taking place.
"The agreement is to be honoured by the Trump administration (so) I'm pleased this agreement will continue," she told the ABC.
Under the settlement deal, the US will take refugees currently held on Manus Island and Nauru in return for Australia accepting refugees from Central America.
US President Donald Trump has said the refugees would be subject to "extreme vetting", and has decribed it as a "dumb deal".
Separately, Mr Trump was under increasing pressure after a Seattle federal judge on Friday put a nationwide block on US President Donald Trump's week-old executive order that had temporarily barred refugees and nationals from seven countries from entering the US.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton earlier said authorities were working to get refugees off Manus Island and Nauru as quickly as possible but it was a "difficult juggling act".
"We are keen to get people off there as quickly as possible ... we've got unfinished business," he told 2GB radio on Friday.
"There's a long way to go before we can get people off."
Australian officials have been working with US counterparts to look at the individual cases of those held in immigration detention, Mr Dutton said.
