Baghdasaryan

MEMORANDUM **

Hrach Baghdasaryan and Siranush Tamrazyan, husband and wife, natives of the former Soviet Union and citizens of Armenia, petition pro so for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ summary affirmance without opinion of an Immigration Judge’s (“U”) order denying then-applications for asylum and withholding of removal and for protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review the IJ’s decision for substantial evidence, Ramos-Vasquez v. INS, 57 F.3d 857, 861 (9th Cir.1995), and we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s adverse credibility finding in that inconsistencies between Baghdasaryan’s written statement and his oral testimony regarding whether or not Baghdasaryan filed a complaint after his son’s kidnapping go to the heart of his claim that he was persecuted in Armenia. See Wang v. INS, 352 F.3d 1250, 1257-58 (9th Cir.2003) (holding that an inconsistency between a document proffered by a petitioner and a petitioner’s testimony can constitute substantial evidence supporting an adverse credibility finding). Substantial evidence also supports the IJ’s adverse…