Qureshi

MEMORANDUM **

*615 Aamer Nisar Qureshi, a native and citizen of Pakistan, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order summarily affirming an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his applications for cancellation of removal, asylum, withholding of removal, and 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, see Gormley v. Ashcroft, 364 F.3d 1172, 1176 (9th Cir.2004), and we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s determination that Qureshi had not accrued ten years of continuous physical presence at the time he was served with the Notice to Appear (“NTA”) in June 1997. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(d)(1). Qureshi’s contention that the NTA was defective (and therefore did not “stop the clock”), because it did not contain the full title of the asylum officer who signed it, lacks merit.

Substantial evidence also supports the IJ’s determination that Qureshi failed to establish eligibility for asylum and withholding of removal. Even if the incidents described by Qureshi rise to the level of persecution, the record does not…