Yunqin Zheng v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Yunqin Zheng petitions for review from the Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision denying her claims for asylum and withholding of removal. We deny the petition for review. Because the parties are familiar with the history of this case, we need not recount it here.

Substantial evidence supports the immigration judge’s (IJ’s) adverse credibility determination, which the Board adopted and affirmed. The IJ found Zheng’s testimony that she worked forty-hour weeks inconsistent with her later testimony that she worked seven days a week for eight or nine hours a day. Zheng had two opportunities to explain this inconsistency but did not do so. Though “trivial inconsistencies” cannot support an adverse credibility finding, Shrestha v. Holder, 590 F.3d 1034, 1044 (9th Cir.2010), this inconsistency about Zheng’s hours was significant because much of Zheng’s testimony concerned her claim that her work schedule prevented her from attending church more frequently. Therefore, we deny the petition for review on the basis of this incon sistency without opining on the sufficiency of the rest of the IJ’s reasons for finding Zheng not credible. See Rizk v. Holder, 629 F.3d 1083, 1088…