Galstyan

*531 MEMORANDUM **

Tigran Leva Galstyan (“Galstyan”), a native and citizen of Armenia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (“BIA”) decision summarily affirming an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal and request for relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 .

Because the BIA summarily affirmed the IJ’s opinion, “the IJ’s decision becomes the BIA’s decision and we evaluate the IJ’s decision as we would that of the Board.” Lanza v. Ashcroft, 389 F.3d 917, 925 (9th Cir.2004) (citation omitted). Here, the IJ found Galstyan not credible and denied his application for asylum and withholding of removal on the basis of: (1) Galstyan’s unresponsiveness to questioning; (2) an inconsistency between Galstyan’s testimony and his asylum application statement regarding the dates that his father served in Parliament; and (3) the lack of detail in Galstyan’s asylum application regarding a physical beating in 2000 and regarding the identities of persons who threatened him on several occasions. We conclude that the IJ’s adverse credibility determination was not…