Alam

MEMORANDUM **

Mohammed Feroz Alam, a citizen of Pakistan, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) decision affirming the Immigration Judge’s denial of Alam’s requests for asylum and withholding of deportation and denying his motion to reopen to pursue suspension of deportation and relief under the Convention Against Torture. We deny Alam’s petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s conclusion that Alam’s submission of a fraudulent writ that he represented as truthful undermined his asylum claim in its entirety. See Akinmade v. INS, 196 F.3d 951, 955-56 (9th Cir.1999). The fraudulent *328 writ supports an adverse credibility determination because it goes to persecution, one of the critical elements of Alam’s asylum claim. In re O-D-, 21 I. & N. Dec. 1079, 1082-83 (BIA 1998). Further, the Immigration Judge gave Alam ample opportunity to explain his submission of the fraudulent writ, but Alam provided no credible explanation for its presentation.

Because Alam did not meet the standard for granting asylum, it follows that he also did not satisfy the more stringent standard for withholding of deportation. See Mejia-Paiz v. INS, 111 F.3d 720…