Kaur
Kaur v. Gonzales
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM ***
Harjeet Kaur, a native and citizen of India, and her three children, Reema Bedi, Joyjeet Singh Bedi, and Reecha Bedi, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) summary affirmance of the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of 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, Chebchoub v. INS, 257 F.3d 1038, 1042 (9th Cir.2001), and we deny the petition.
Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s adverse credibility finding. The IJ offered specific, cogent reasons for her findings based on an inconsistency between Kaur’s testimony that Muslim militants kidnaped her husband in India in 1999 and that she never saw or communicated with him *748 again and documents submitted by the government at the hearing which show that her husband entered the United States three times after 1999 and listed Kaur’s address in the United States as his intended address. See id. at 1043 .
Because Kaur failed to show that she was eligible for asylum, it follows that she did not satisfy the more…