Shaoping Hou v. Loretta E. Lynch

MEMORANDUM

Shaoping Hou, a native and citizen of China, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence the agency’s factual findings, applying the standards governing adverse credibility determinations created by the REAL ID Act, Shrestha v. Holder, 590 F.3d 1034, 1039-40 (9th Cir. 2010), and we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s adverse credibility determination based on an inconsistency as to the reason for Hou’s second IUD, the omission from Hou’s declaration of family planning policy enforcement actions against her, and an inconsistency as to where she attended house church meetings in China. See id. at 1046-47 (although inconsistencies no longer need to “go to the heart” of the claim under the REAL ID Act, where an inconsistency does go to the heart of the claim, “it doubtless is of great weight”); Zamanov v. Holder, 649 F.3d 969, 973-74 (9th Cir. 2011) (adverse…