Suri

MEMORANDUM **

Nawal Amritlal Suri, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the opinion of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), affirming the decision of an Immigration Judge (IJ) finding him not credible and denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture. The BIA adopted the IJ’s credibility determination and added reasons of its own. We review both the IJ’s and the BIA’s decisions. See Kalubi v. Ashcroft, 864 F.3d 1134 , 1137 n. 3 (9th Cir.2004).

We will uphold an IJ’s credibility determination if it includes specific, cogent reasons and is supported by substantial evidence, reversing only if the evidence compels a contrary result. See Don v. Gonzales, 476 F.3d 738, 741 (9th Cir.2007). The IJ concluded that Suri was not credible because his declaration in his 2000 application for asylum did not mention the fact that the Indian police were still looking for him, while at the hearing in 2004 Suri testified that the police had visited his family and asked about Suri within the last several months. The IJ faulted Suri for answering yes when asked, at the beginning of his hearing, whether his application…