Xiaolong Chen v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

The BIA’s affirmance of the immigration judge’s adverse credibility finding is supported by substantial evidence. The immigration judge, and the BIA, listed “specific instances in the record that form[ed] the basis of the agency’s adverse credibility determination,” Shrestha v. Holder, 590 F.3d 1034, 1042 (9th Cir.2010), including Chen’s incoiisistent and inherently implausible testimony regarding his travels to and within the United States, for which Chen could not provide any documentation or corroborating evidence to support. The immigration judge, and the BIA, also properly relied on Chen’s inconsistent statements regarding when he discovered what happened to the people who were with him when, he claims, the Chinese police interrupted his religious gathering. Considering the “totality of the circumstances,” 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (b)(l)(B)(iii); Shrestha, 590 F.3d at 1039-40 , nothing in the record “compels a contrary conclusion.” Singh v. Gonzales, 439 F.3d 1100, 1105 (9th Cir.2006).

The BIA’s conclusion that Chen failed to provide reasonably obtainable corroborating evidence — such as affidavits from his family or fellow Chinese home church members, or any…