Mkrtchyan

MEMORANDUM

Artem Mkrtchyan (“Artem”), a native of the former Soviet Union and a citizen of Armenia, and his wife Inga Bastermajyan (“Inga”) and their two daughters, natives and citizens of Armenia, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying their application for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, Tekle v. Mukasey, 533 F.3d 1044, 1051 (9th Cir.2008), and we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s adverse credibility determination based on the omission from Artem’s asylum application of his alleged beatings during his September 2002 detention, see Alvarez-Santos v. INS, 332 F.3d 1245, 1254 (9th Cir.2003) (omission of a “dramatic, pivotal event” from asylum application supported adverse credibility determination), and the discrepancies between Inga’s asylum application and her testimony regarding the physical harm she and Artem allegedly suffered during the January 2003 incident, see Li v. Ashcroft, 378 F.3d 959, 962-63 (9th Cir.2004). Further, because the agency had reason to…