Spaho

MEMORANDUM ***

Ervini Spaho, a native and citizen of Albania, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ dismissal of his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his applications for asylum, withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review the IJ’s order as the final agency determination. See Falcon Carriche v. Ashcroft, 350 F.3d 845, 849 (9th Cir.2003). We review for substantial evidence, see Gui v. INS, 280 F.3d 1217, 1225 (9th Cir.2002), and we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s adverse credibility determination because Spaho testified that he was arrested and beaten on two separate occasions by members of the communist Albanian government yet failed to mention these central arrests in either his application for asylum or the accompanying declaration, and when given a reasonable opportunity, was unable to offer a cogent explanation for the omission. The IJ was “not unreasonable *197 in considering that, if truthful, [Spaho] would have thought to mention his most serious allegation[s] of mistreatment when he detailed the…