Kaur

MEMORANDUM **

Kashmir Kaur, a national and citizen of India, petitions for review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), adopting and affirming an immigration judge (IJ), which denied her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (a)(1), and deny the petition for review.

Although not every one of the IJ’s credibility findings is justifiable, there is substantial evidence to support the adverse credibility determination. Wang v. INS, 352 F.3d 1250, 1259 (9th Cir.2003) (“So long as one of the identified grounds is supported by substantial evidence and goes to the heart of [the] claim of persecution, we are bound to accept the IJ’s adverse credibility finding.”). Kaur’s testimony regarding her husband’s affiliation with Akali Dal Mann was inconsistent, ranging from her husband not participating in politics at all to merely being a supporter who never worked for the party to being, according to her own exhibit, an active member who had worked for the party. Given that her alleged persecution arose, at least in part, out of her husband’s affiliation with…