Harjinder Singh-Kaur v. Loretta E. Lynch

MEMORANDUM

Harjinder Singh-Kaur, also known as Jagtar Singh, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) termination of his prior grant of asylum and rejection of his claims for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture. We deny his petition for review.

1. The BIA properly upheld the Immigration Judge’s termination of Singh-Kaur’s prior grant of asylum under 8 C.P.R. § 1208.24(a)(1).

Singh-Kaur conceded before the BIA and concedes here that he committed fraud in his 1994 asylum application.

Substantial evidence supports the Immigration Judge’s determination that Singh-Kaur’s application fraud, together with his false representations in his removal hearing and asylum interview and the inconsistencies in the stories of persecution presented in his 1994 and 1996 asylum applications, rendered him ineligible for asylum at the time it was granted because they fatally undermined his credibility. See 8 C.F.R. § 1208.24 (a)(1).

Singh-Kaur misrepresented his name, date of birth, marital status, and parental status in his 1994 application. Then, in his 1996 asylum application, he misrepresented the dates of an incident in India…