Mundi

MEMORANDUM **

Zora Singh Mundi, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) dismissal of his appeal from the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his applications for asylum and withholding of removal. Because the BIA affirmed without opinion the decision of the IJ, we review the IJ’s decision as if it were the opinion of the *549 BIA. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.1 (a)(7)(iii). The IJ’s denial of relief was based on an adverse credibility determination. We review adverse credibility determinations under the “substantial evidence” standard. See Gui v. INS, 280 F.3d 1217, 1225 (9th Cir.2002). Because we find that the IJ’s adverse credibility determination was supported by substantial evidence, we deny Mundi’s petition for review.

The IJ in this case pointed to a number of specific and cogent flaws in Mundi’s testimony: (1) Mundi testified that his brother Sher was arrested and held for three days, while Sher stated in his Canadian asylum application that he was detained for seven months; (2) Mundi was inconsistent in his testimony about which sarpanehe 1 aided him in the release from his first arrest; (3) Mundi’s testimony was…