Singh

MEMORANDUM **

Nirbhai Singh, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) order affirming without opinion the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) order denying Singh’s applications for asylum and withholding of removal and for protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . Where the BIA affirms without opinion, the IJ’s decision becomes the final agency determination and we review it as we would a decision of the BIA. Lanza v. Ashcroft, 389 F.3d 917, 925 (9th Cir.2004). We review the agency’s factual findings for substantial evidence, and reverse such findings only if “the evidence not only supports that conclusion, but compels it.” INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478 , 481 n. 1, 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992) (emphasis in original); 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (b)(4)(B). We deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s adverse credibility determination because Singh stated in his written declaration that authorities arrested him in 1995 for his alleged involvement in an assassination and arrested him in 1999 for selling various anti-national items, whereas at his…