Hovanisyan

MEMORANDUM

Samvel Hovanisyan (“Samvel”), a native of the former USSR and a citizen of Azer baijan, and his son Karen Hovanisyan (“Karen”), a native of the former USSR and a citizen of Armenia or Azerbaijan, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) dismissal of their appeal of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) decision ordering them removed from the United States. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (a)(1), and we deny Samvel’s and Karen’s petition for review. The BIA’s adverse credibility finding is supported by substantial evidence.

The facts of this case are known to the parties. We do not repeat them.

I

“[W]hen the BIA incorporates the IJ’s decision as its own, we treat the IJ’s reasons as the BIA’s.” He v. Ashcroft, 328 F.3d 593, 595-96 (9th Cir.2003).

We review findings of fact for substantial evidence. Zhao v. Mukasey, 540 F.3d 1027, 1029 (9th Cir.2008). We will uphold the BIA’s decision if it is “supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole.” Abebe v. Gonzales, 432 F.3d 1037, 1039-40 (9th Cir.2005) (en banc) (internal quotation marks omitted).

II

The BIA’s adverse credibility finding…