Nikoghosyan

MEMORANDUM ****

Petitioner Viktoria Nikoghosyan petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeal’s (“BIA”) summary affirmance of the immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her application for asylum. We grant the petition for review and remand for further proceedings. Because the parties are familiar with the factual and procedural history of the case, we will not recount it here.

I

To determine whether substantial evidence supports the IJ’s credibility determination, we evaluate each ground cited by the IJ for the finding. See Wang v. Ashcroft, 341 F.3d 1015, 1021 (9th Cir.2003). To support an adverse credibility determination, the IJ must have a “legitimate, articulable basis to question the petitioner’s credibility, and must offer a specific, cogent reason for any stated disbelief.” Id. at 1022 (quoting Osorio v. INS, 99 F.3d 928, 931 (9th Cir.1996)).

Whether Nikoghosyan was attacked by two or four people is of no matter, see He v. Ashcroft, 328 F.3d 593, 600 (9th Cir.2003) (‘Whether five people or ten people came to take his wife for involuntary sterilization, it would nonetheless have been involuntary.”), particularly because Nikoghosyan does not claim in her…