Singh

MEMORANDUM **

Ramandeep Singh, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirming an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) order denying Singh’s applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”) based on an adverse credibility determination. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 , and deny the petition for review.

*655 We review for substantial evidence an adverse credibility determination and will reverse only if the record compels a contrary conclusion. Singh-Kaur v. INS, 183 F.3d 1147, 1149-50 (9th Cir.1999).

Substantial evidence supports the adverse credibility determination because Singh’s written declaration in support of his asylum application differed in material ways from his later asylum hearing testimony when his declaration omitted three arrests in which Indian police allegedly beat him. This omission goes to the “heart of [the] asylum claim” because the arrests form the core of Singh’s asylum claim. See Li v. Ashcroft, 378 F.3d 959, 962 (9th Cir.2004); see also Alvarez-Santos v. INS, 332 F.3d 1245, 1254 (9th Cir. 2003) (concluding that the…