Bassi

MEMORANDUM **

Karnail Singh Bassi, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order affirming the immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying Bassi’s application for asylum, withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 and deny the petition.

We review for substantial evidence a finding of adverse credibility. Gui v. INS, 280 F.3d 1217, 1225 (9th Cir.2002). An adverse credibility determination will be upheld when “it is based on a specific, cogent reason,” such as “serious inconsistencies in the applicant’s testimony that go to the heart of his application.” Alvarez-Santos v. INS, 332 F.3d 1245, 1254 (9th Cir.2003) (internal citations omitted). We must uphold the IJ’s and BIA’s findings unless the evidence presented would compel a reasonable finder of fact to reach a contrary result. See Singh-Kaur v. INS, 183 F.3d 1147, 1149-50 (9th Cir.1999).

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s and BIA’s adverse credibility determination. As the IJ and BIA found, Bassi’s explanation that he did not leave India before 1999 because he did not have any…