Patatanyan

Patatanyan v. Gonzales

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132 F. App'x 124
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitMay 12, 2005No. 04-70962California327 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM ***

Anahit Patatanyan, a native of Iran and citizen of Armenia, petitions for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals’ summary affirmance without opinion of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) order denying her ap *126 plication for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review an adverse credibility determination for substantial evidence, Gui v. INS, 280 F.3d 1217, 1225 (9th Cir.2002), and we deny the petition for review.

The IJ’s adverse credibility determination is supported by Patatanyan’s failure to produce evidence that she is a practicing Jehovah’s Witness, despite her testimony that she had attended services three times a week for several months in the United States. See Mejia-Paiz v. INS, 111 F.3d 720 , 723-24 (9th Cir.1997).

The IJ was reasonable in requiring corroborating evidence given inconsistencies in Patatanyan’s testimony, her “non-responsive” demeanor, and the fact that another asylum application with an entirely different legal and factual basis had been submitted on Patatanyan’s behalf. See Sidhu v. INS, 220 F.3d 1085, 1092 (9th Cir.2000)…

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