Gasparyan

MEMORANDUM **

Ofeliya Gasparyan and her husband Hurutyun Nazaryan, both natives and citizens of Armenia, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) decision affirming the Immigration Judge’s (IJ) order denying their applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). Where, as here, the Court cannot determine whether the BIA conducted a de novo review of the IJ’s decision, the Court may “look to the IJ’s oral decision as a guide to what lay behind the BIA’s conclusion.” Avetova-Elisseva v. INS, 213 F.3d 1192, 1197 (9th Cir.2000). ‘We review the IJ’s findings of fact for substantial evidence and will uphold these findings if they are supported by ‘reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole.’ ” Abebe v. Gonzales, 432 F.3d 1037, 1039-40 (9th Cir.2005). A petitioner contending that the IJ’s findings are erroneous must establish that the evidence compels reversal. See Singh v. INS, 134 F.3d 962, 966 (9th Cir.1998). We deny the petition for review.

The IJ and the BIA based the adverse credibility determinations on numerous inconsistencies in Petitioners’ testimony, as well…