MILAN (AP) — Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s program to screen asylum seekers outside the European Union Albania’s borders had a new problem on Monday when a court in Rome refused to rule on an official request to detain seven migrants transferred to the Balkans the nation last week.

The decision means the seven migrants, from Bangladesh and Egypt, will be brought to Italy on a naval ship just days after they arrived in Albania.

Albanian media showed images of a minibus accompanied by Italian police vehicles entering the Albanian port of Shengjin, where migrants were seen boarding a small ship.

It’s a repeat of what happened with the first 12 migrants in the program, who were also returned to Italy by another court order last month, shortly after the opening of two Italian-operated migrant screening centers in Albania.

In both cases, the courts referred the cases to the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg to decide whether the migrants’ countries of origin are considered safe countries for repatriation. The top 12 were also from Egypt and Bangladesh.

The move by the courts has angered Meloni’s far-right government, which has sought strategies to ease the pressure on Italy from the arrival of migrants seeking a better life in Europe.

In its latest ruling, the court said it sought clarification on which countries are designated as safe “only to identify which procedure to apply.”

“The exclusion of a state from the list of safe countries of origin does not prevent the repatriation and/or expulsion of those migrants whose asylum applications have been rejected,” the court said in its ruling.

Under a five-year deal, Albania would allow Italy to run two migrant centers on its territory, with the capacity to screen up to 3,000 migrants a month to be screened for asylum or returned to their countries of origin.

Human rights groups and non-governmental organizations active in the Mediterranean criticized the agreement as a dangerous precedent that conflicts with international laws.

So far, Italy has been unable to identify anywhere near that number for possible screening in Albania, despite thousands of arrivals on Italian shores since the centers opened. Migrants sent to Albania must be male adults, traveling without family members and coming from countries considered safe.