Gonfa

MEMORANDUM **

Bizework Gonfa, a citizen of Ethiopia, petitions for review of the Board of Immi *187 gration Appeals’ (“BIA”) affirmance of an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her applications for asylum and withholding of removal, and request for relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). Gonfa also petitions for review of the BIA’s denial of her motion to reopen proceedings so that she may present new evidence. We deny the petition as to the asylum and withholding of removal claims, and we do not have jurisdiction to consider Gonfa’s CAT claim. We also deny Gonfa’s motion to reopen in light of new evidence.

I

The IJ’s adverse credibility finding was supported by substantial evidence. There are a number of discrepancies in Gonfa’s application that supports the IJ’s finding. Primarily, Gonfa conceded that she initially consciously misrepresented the length of her husband’s tenure in prison, which is information that she understood to be material and central to her initial asylum claim. Also supporting the IJ’s adverse credibility finding were Gonfa’s unpersuasive account of the rapes, her misrepresentations to an INS officer upon arrival in the United States, her…