Prabh Sirmar v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Prabh Kaur Sirmar petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) decision affirming the Immigration Judge’s (IJ) denial of her claims for asylum, withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). We deny the petition.

■The BIA’s determination that there has been a fundamental change in India such that Sirmar no longet has a well-founded fear of persecution is supported by substantial evidence. See Singh v. Holder, 753 F.3d 826, 830 (9th Cir.2014). The IJ and BIA credited a 2008 State Department report, India Issue Paper on the Treatment of Sikhs, which found that conditions for Indian Sikhs had changed dramatically in recent years, that “persecution of Sikhs based on political or religious beliefs would be widely covered” by the media in India today and that “[t]here is no indication that Sikhs are singled out for police abuse.” The IJ applied this report on the situation in India to Sirmar’s individual circumstances, see Lopez v. Ashcroft, 366 F.3d 799, 805 (9th Cir.2004), finding that Sirmar’s claim that she was targeted because her brother was a supporter of a Sikh nationalist party “provides no basis in today’s India…