Pavitar Gill v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Pavitar Gill, an Indian citizen, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his applications for withholding of removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1231 (b)(3) and for protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . For the following reasons, we deny the petition.

A.

The law and the evidence of record support the BIA’s determination that Mr. Gill is not entitled to withholding of removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1231 (b)(3).

First, the BIA applied the correct legal standard. It stated that Mr. Gill had to demonstrate that he “more likely than not” would be persecuted if he returned to India, Delgado v. Holder, 648 F.3d 1095, 1101 (9th Cir.2011) (internal quotation marks omitted), and that his actual or imputed religious beliefs or political opinion would be “one central reason” for that persecution, Matter of C-T-L-, 25 I. & N. Dec. 341, 348 (BIA 2010) (internal quotation marks omitted); see also Zetino v. Holder, 622 F.3d 1007, 1015 (9th Cir.2010).

Second, substantial evidence supports the Board’s determination that Mr. Gill has…