Fei Chen v. Holder

MEMORANDUM **

Fei Chen, a native and citizen of China, petitions this Court for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) decision affirming an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his application for asylum and withholding of relief from removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 and deny the petition. Where, as here, the BIA affirms the decision of the IJ and cites to its decision in Matter of Burbano, 20 I. & N. Dec. 872 (BIA 1994), the BIA adopts the IJ’s decision in its entirety and we review the IJ’s decision as the BIA’s. Abebe v. Gonzales, 432 F.3d 1037, 1040-41 (9th Cir.2005) (en banc).

The record is not such as permits us to conclude that we are compelled to reverse the IJ’s adverse credibility finding. Given the totality of circumstances, including Chen’s unpersuasive explanation that he simply forgot to mention being beaten in his asylum application, his inability to describe in any detail what he saw at the registered church that he pui’portedly attended, and his unexplained failure to corroborate his account with testimony from the local pastor or his uncle in Hawaii, we conclude that there was sufficient evidence in the record to sustain the…