Singh

MEMORANDUM **

Jeet Singh, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision, which summarily affirmed the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) order denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 .

Where, as here, the BIA affirms without an opinion, we review the IJ’s decision directly. See Falcon Carriche v. Ashcroft, 350 F.3d 845, 849 (9th Cir.2003). We review for substantial evidence, Gonzalez-Hernandez v. Ashcroft, 336 F.3d 995, 998 (9th Cir.2003), and we deny the petition for review.

The IJ found that, even assuming Singh’s testimony was credible and that past persecution was established, the government submitted evidence establishing that Singh no longer had a well-founded fear of future persecution because of changed country conditions. Because the IJ performed a sufficiently individualized analysis of the State Department’s country profile reports regarding the current treatment of Sikhs in India, substantial evidence supports this finding. See 8 C.F.R. § 208.13 (b)(1); see also Gonzalez-Hernandez, 336 F.3d at…