Singh

MEMORANDUM **

Petitioners Hardip Singh and his wife Atinder Kaur, natives and citizens of India, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) final order of removal and denial of eligibility for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (a)(1), and deny the petition for review.

Because the BIA expressly adopted and affirmed the immigration judge’s (IJ) entire decision, we review the IJ’s decision as if it were that of the BIA. Abebe v. Gonzales, 432 F.3d 1037, 1039 (9th Cir.2005) (en banc). We review for substantial evidence, and reversal is proper only if the evidence compels a contrary result. INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992); Ali v. Ashcroft, 394 F.3d 780, 784 (9th Cir.2005).

The IJ denied Kaur’s asylum and withholding claims because she found Kaur’s testimony not credible. We uphold the adverse credibility ruling. The IJ gave “specific and cogent” reasons for her findings that went to the “heart of the asylum claim.” Kaur v. Ashcroft, 379 F.3d 876, 884 (9th Cir.2004) (citation and quotation omitted). The IJ cited…