Rui Huang v. Ashcroft

MEMORANDUM **

Rui Huang and Zhi Ming Dong, husband and wife and natives and citizens of China, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision summarily affirming an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying their applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence an adverse credibility determination, see Malhi v. INS, 336 F.3d 989, 992 (9th Cir.2003), and we deny the petition.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s adverse credibility finding. Petitioners submitted a first asylum application which contained false incidents of past persecution and prepared fraudulent supporting documents. They then submitted a second application which alleged a new story of past persecution. See Al-Harbi v. INS, 242 F.3d 882, 889-90 (9th Cir.2001) (affirming adverse credibility finding based *558 on applicant’s “propensity to change his story regarding incidents of past persecution”); Akinmade v. INS, 196 F.3d 951, 955-56 (9th Cir.1999) (presentation of fraudulent documents, “submitted to prove a central element of the claim in an asylum…