Immigration Minister Scott Morrison says he makes no apologies for an assertive video telling asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru that they will never be resettled in Australia and should consider returning home.

Mr Morrison said the video, which was shown as an "orientation message" to new arrivals in offshore detention centres, was recorded after his first visit to Papua New Guinea and Nauru in September.

It mirrors the same message the minister personally delivered to the asylum seekers at the centre, Mr Morrison told Fairfax Media.

“I make no apologies for being up front about the reality of the situation that transferees were now faced with. This is in stark contrast to the lies told to them by people smugglers and the false hope being peddled by others who claimed the government would not follow through with our policies," he said.