Bedi

MEMORANDUM ***

Kewal Krishan Bedi, his wife Chandan, and their two minor children, natives and citizens of India, appeal the orders of the Board of Immigration Appeal (“BIA”), which affirmed the decision of the immigration judge (“IJ”) to deny their applications for asylum and withholding of removal. The IJ denied the Bedis’ applications, finding that neither Mr. Bedi nor Mrs. Bedi was credible. Because substantial evidence in the record supports this decision, we affirm.

The IJ discusses numerous inconsistencies and implausibilities in the Bedis’ applications. Admittedly, some of the IJ’s reasons for finding the Bedis’ testimony not to be credible are based on impermissible speculation and conjecture, see Bandari v. INS, 227 F.3d 1160, 1167 (9th Cir.2000), and some of the inconsistencies the IJ cites are minor and, standing alone, could not justify an adverse credibility finding, see Vilorio-Lopez v. INS, 852 F.2d 1137, 1142 (9th Cir.1988). However, several of the grounds cited by the IJ are supported by the record and go to the heart of the Bedis’ claims; therefore, we must uphold the IJ’s adverse credibility finding. See Wang v. INS, 352 F.3d 1250, 1259 (9th…