Parikian

MEMORANDUM **

Izabella G. Parikian, a native and citizen of Bulgaria, petitions pro se for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge’s denial of her application for asylum and withholding of deportation. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § llOSa(a), 1 and we deny the petition.

We review for substantial evidence the BIA’s determination that Parakian has failed to establish asylum eligibility because she has failed to demonstrate persecution or well-founded fear thereof on account of membership in a particular social group, political opinion, or any other prohibited ground. See Singh v. INS, 134 F.3d 962, 966 (9th Cir.1998). To reverse the BIA’s decision we must find that the evidence not only supports a contrary conclusion, but compels it. Id.

We deny Parildan’s petition for review because the evidence does not compel the conclusion that her testimony was credible. See INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 482 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). Because the evidence does not compel a finding of eligibility for asylum, it necessarily does not compel a finding that Pari-kian has satisfied the more…