Australia vowed to never let these men settle on its soil. Some just got visas

The day Farhad Bandesh turned 39, he heard the words he'd come to believe weren't possible, after almost eight years in Australian immigration detention facilities: "You're free to go."

source https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/20/australia/australia-refugee-visas-intl-dst-hnk/index.html