Singh

MEMORANDUM *

Gurpreet Singh petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) order dismissing his appeal from the Immigration Judge’s (IJ’s) denial of his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture. We conclude that substantial evidence supports the conclusion that Singh’s seven-year experience living in India without incident before coming to the United States rebuts any presumption of future persecution and so deny the petition, without reaching the credibility issue.

1. Once a petitioner has established past persecution, a rebuttable presumption of a well-founded fear of future persecution arises, and the burden shifts to the government to rebut that presumption. Boer-Sedano v. Gonzales, 418 F.3d 1082, 1090 (9th Cir.2005). Here, assuming Singh had established past persecution in the Punjab, substantial evidence supports the BIA’s conclusion that the government has rebutted the well-founded fear presumption.

Singh testified that he lived in or around Bhopal for seven years without encountering hostility. During this time, Singh operated a successful trucking business and engaged in several transactions with…