Singh

MEMORANDUM

Bachitar Singh (along with his wife and two children, whose applications are derivative to his) petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeal’s decision affirming an Immigration Judge’s denial of his application from asylum. We conclude that the Board’s decision was supported by substantial evidence. We therefore deny the petition. See Go v. Holder, 640 F.3d 1047, 1052 (9th Cir.2011).

The Board found Singh’s account of past persecution credible but reasoned that the presumption of a reasonable and well-founded fear of future persecution was rebutted by evidence that Singh escaped persecution in the past by relocating to Mumbai and, later, Ludhiana. See 8 C.F.R. § 1208.13 (b). Petitioners argue that Singh avoided persecution elsewhere only by hiding from police. He testified, however, that he was able to marry, travel, raise children, and supervise his farm while he lived in those cities. This testimony is substantial evidence in favor of the Board’s conclusion that relocation within India is a feasible alternative to asylum.

Petitioners also point out that we held in Singh v. Moschorak, 53 F.3d 1031, 1034 (9th Cir.1995), that “[i]t has never been thought…