Kaur

MEMORANDUM **

Parminder Kaur, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) decision affirming the Immigration Judge’s (IJ) denial of her request for asylum and withholding of deportation. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(a), *** and we deny the petition for review.

*637 DISCUSSION

Kaur may establish her eligibility for asylum by showing that she is “unable or unwilling to return to [her] home country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of ... political opinion.” See Zahedi v. INS, 222 F.3d 1157, 1162 (9th Cir.2000) (internal quotations omitted). She may do so by presenting “credible, direct, and specific evidence [demonstrating] an objectively reasonable basis for the claimed fear of persecution.” See Singh-Kaur v. INS, 183 F.3d 1147, 1149 (9th Cir.1999). Both the IJ and the BIA found that Kaur’s testimony was not credible. Most notably, both found that although Kaur claimed to have been persecuted for her activity in the All-India Sikh Student Federation (AISSF), she could not articulate the group’s goals or recall that the AISSF had vigorously boycotted a national…