Zohrabyan

MEMORANDUM **

Petitioner Hrant Zohrabyan (“Zohra-byan”) seeks review of two orders by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA” or the “Board”): (1) the Board’s December 20, 2004 order, affirming, without opinion, the decision of the Immigration Judge (“IJ”) denying Zohrabyan’s application for asylum, withholding of removal, relief under the Convention Against Torture, and voluntary departure; and (2) the Board’s June 21, 2005 order denying Zohrabyan’s motion to reconsider.

Our review is limited to the Board’s opinion, except where the Board adopted the IJ’s findings. See Castillo v. INS, 951 F.2d 1117, 1120 (9th Cir.1991). Where the Board adopts the IJ’s findings, as here, we review the decision of the IJ as if it were that of the Board. See Al-Harbi v. INS, 242 F.3d 882, 887 (9th Cir.2001). We review the Board’s factual determinations under the substantial evidence standard. See INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). Under the substantial evidence standard, this court must uphold the Board’s findings if they are “supported by reasonable, substantial and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole.” Id. (internal quotation…