Singh

MEMORANDUM

Thakur Singh and Gurcharan Kaur, natives and citizens of India, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) decision affirming the immigration judge’s (“U”) denial of asylum, withholding of removal, protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”), and voluntary departure. We deny the petition for review. Because the parties are familiar with the factual and procedural history of the case, we need not recount it here.

I

Substantial evidence supports the adverse credibility determination in this case. The record is replete with testimonial inconsistencies and discrepancies in Petitioners’ application documents that provide substantial evidence to support the IJ’s adverse credibility finding. Of particular note are the inconsistencies concerning the number and the dates of the alleged arrests. Petitioners concede that at least some of the inconsistencies go to the heart of the their claim. See Li v. Ashcroft, 378 F.3d 959, 962 (9th Cir.2004) (“An adverse credibility ruling will be upheld so long as identified inconsistencies go to the ‘heart of the asylum claim.’ ”) (citation omitted). Petitioners contend that these inconsistencies were the…