Saavedra Calderon v. Ashcroft

MEMORANDUM **

Augusto Brigido Saavedra Calderon, a native and citizen of Peru, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) summary affirmance of an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his applications for asylum and withholding of removal, and request for relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence an adverse credibility finding and will uphold the IJ’s decision unless the evidence compels a contrary conclusion. Malhi v. INS, 336 F.3d 989, 992-93 (9th Cir.2003). We deny the petition for review.

According to the INS Forensic Document Laboratory, documents Saavedra Calderon supplied in support of his asylum claim were found to have been produced by the same typewriter, despite the fact that they purported to originate from dif *790 ferent entities. Substantial evidence therefore supports the IJ’s decision that Saavedra Calderon’s claim to asylum was fraudulent and had no basis in fact. See Zahedi v. INS, 222 F.3d 1157, 1165 (9th Cir.2000) (the same standards governing credibility determinations of testimonial evidence apply to documentary evidence); Akinmade v. INS, 196…