Enhong Lin v. Keisler

MEMORANDUM **

Enhong Lin, a native and citizen of China, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) summary *642 affirmance of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review an adverse credibility determination for substantial evidence, Chebchoub v. INS, 257 F.3d 1038, 1042 (9th Cir.2001), and we deny the petition.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s adverse credibility decision, which was based in part on inconsistencies between petitioner’s application and testimony regarding monthly visits by government officials and an outstanding warrant for his arrest, inconsistencies between his testimony and documentary evidence regarding when he was terminated from his job, an inconsistency within his testimony as to whether he was in hiding, and implausible testimony regarding events before petitioner’s departure from China. See Wang v. INS, 352 F.3d 1250, 1257-58 (9th Cir.2003) (holding discrepancy between testimony and termination notice supported adverse credibility finding); Alvarez-Santos v. INS, 332 F.3d 1245, 1254 (9th Cir.2003) (holding inconsistency…