Singh

MEMORANDUM *

Vikram Singh argues that the Immigration Judge (IJ) did not make an individualized analysis of his credibility. He claims, therefore, that the IJ’s adverse credibility finding and denial of his claims for asylum and withholding of deportation cannot stand.

Contrary to petitioner’s claim, the IJ undertook an individualized analysis of Singh’s credibility. Among other things, the IJ reasonably inferred that if the police suspected Singh of being a terrorist they would not have promoted him to the status of “career sepoy” and trained him to use FN assault rifles, submachine guns, various pistols and revolvers, hand grenades, and a heavy machine gun. See Saballa-Cortez v. INS, 761 F.2d 1259, 1264-65 (9th Cir.1985) (denying petition where adverse credibility finding was based on the reasonable inference that if petitioner were subject to official persecution because of his draft resistance, he would not have been given a passport); see also Ceballos-Castillo, 904 F.2d at 521. As in Saballo-Cortez, the IJ here properly found that Singh “was not a credible witness because his testimony and the statements in his application for asylum were internally inconsistent and lacked…