Luo

MEMORANDUM

Jiajie Luo, a native and citizen of China, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his applications for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review de novo questions of law and for substantial evidence factual findings. Husyev v. Mukasey, 528 F.3d 1172, 1177 (9th Cir.2008). We deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s adverse credibility finding based on the inconsistency between Luo’s original and subsequent accounts of the factual basis for his claim, see Husyev, 528 F.3d at 1183 (omission of petitioner’s political activism in his application and interview went to the heart of his claim), and based on the implausible account of the omission of his father’s flight from China in his original application, see Li v. Ashcroft, 378 F.3d 959, 963-64 (9th Cir.2004) (adverse credibility finding supported where petitioner omitted wife’s forced sterilization from prior accounts and immigration judge addressed proffered explanation for omission). We also reject Luo’s contention that the agency…