Yajie Liu v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Yajie Liu, a native and citizen of China, petitions pro se 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 protection 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, ap plying the new 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 review de novo claims of due process violations, Colmenar v. INS, 210 F.3d 967, 971 (9th Cir.2000). We deny the petition for review.

Liu testified that she was arrested and fired from her job for preaching the gospel to patients at the hospital of Chinese medicine where she was a doctor. Substantial evidence supports the agency’s adverse credibility determination because Liu’s claim that she is a doctor of Chinese medicine was inconsistent with her household register, which indicated she is an engineer, and the agency reasonably rejected her explanations for the inconsistency. See Shrestha, 590 F.3d at…