Singh

Singh v. Holder

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359 F. App'x 822
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitDecember 15, 2009No. 08-73958California545 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Baj Singh (“Singh”), a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (“BIA”) dismissal of his appeal of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying Singh’s applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). The IJ denied all relief because she did not find Singh credible. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 , and we deny the petition for review.

We review the IJ’s decision when the BIA adopts and affirms the IJ’s decision by citing to Matter of Burbano, 20 I. & N. *823 Dec. 872 (BIA 1994), as it did here. Moreno-Morante v. Gonzales, 490 F.3d 1172, 1174 (9th Cir.2007). We review an IJ’s adverse-credibility finding under the substantial evidence standard. Tawadrus v. Ashcroft, 364 F.3d 1099, 1102 (9th Cir.2004). We will uphold the IJ’s finding if it is “supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole,” INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992), and we cannot reverse “unless the evidence presented would compel a reasonable finder of fact to reach a contrary result,”…

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