Reid

MEMORANDUM ***

Valentina Chigrina Reid, a citizen of Ukraine, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) summary affirmance of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her application for asylum and withholding of deportation. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(a), and we deny the petition for review.

Petitioner’s challenge to the BIA’s summary affirmance procedure is foreclosed by Falcon Carriche v. Ashcroft, 350 F.3d 845, 849-50 (9th Cir.2003).

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s adverse credibility determination, as well as the determination that petitioner failed to establish persecution on account of an enumerated ground. We review adverse credibility determinations under a substantial evidence standard. See Mendoza Manimbao v. Ashcroft, 329 F.3d 655, 658 (9th Cir.2003). The determination must be upheld because the IJ made an express credibility finding and offered specific, cogent reasons for disbelief, which go to the heart of petitioner’s claim of persecution. See Wang v. INS, 352 F.3d 1250, 1259 (9th Cir.2003). Among other things, petitioner’s application and testimony contain material inconsistencies with regard to her…