Kregzde

MEMORANDUM **

Rimas Juozas Kregzde, a native of Lithuania, *120 1 petitions pro se for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirming an immigration judge’s denial of his applications for asylum and withholding of deportation under 8 U.S.C. §§ 1158 (a) & 1253(h), and the denial of his application for suspension of deportation under 8 U.S.C. § 1254 (a)(1). We have jurisdiction over the asylum and withholding applications pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(a), 2 and we deny that portion of the petition. We lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s discretionary decision that Kregzde failed to show extreme hardship, Torres-Aguilar v. INS, 246 F.3d 1267, 1270 (9th Cir.2001), and we therefore dismiss that portion of the petition.

We review for substantial evidence the BIA’s determination that an applicant has not established eligibility for asylum, and we must uphold the BIA’s decision unless the evidence compels a contrary result. Kazlauskas v. INS, 46 F.3d 902, 905 (9th Cir.1995). Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s determination that, due to the political changes in Lithuania, Kregzde failed to establish an objectively well-founded fear of future persecution.…