Karapetyan

MEMORANDUM

Petitioner Ruzanna Karapetyan (“Karapetyan”), a native of Armenia, challenges the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) decision affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) adverse credibility determination and corresponding denial of Karapetyan’s application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). This court has jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s adverse credibility determination. In pre-REAL ID Act cases, such as this one, the IJ’s determination must be upheld if supported by substantial evidence in the record. Lei Li v. Holder, 629 F.3d 1154, 1157 (9th Cir.2011). As long as one of the identified grounds underlying an adverse credibility finding is supported by substantial evidence and goes to the heart of the claim of persecution, this court must affirm that finding. Li v. Ashcroft, 378 F.3d 959, 964 (9th Cir.2004).

While the purported inconsistences identified by the IJ are not supported by substantial evidence, the implausibility findings are supported. Don v. Gonzales, 476 F.3d 738, 741 (9th Cir.2007) (holding that an IJ’s credibility…