Ghazaryan

MEMORANDUM **

Iskuhi Ghazaryan, a native and citizen of Armenia, petitions for review of the Board *708 of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision dismissing her appeal from an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her application for asylum and withholding of removal.

We lack jurisdiction to consider whether extraordinary circumstances excuse Ghazaryan’s failure to file her asylum application within the one-year time limit because she failed to raise it in her brief to the BIA, see Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 677-78 (9th Cir.2004).

We have jurisdiction over Ghazaryan’s withholding of removal claim under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence an adverse credibility finding. Malhi v. INS, 336 F.3d 989, 992 (9th Cir. 2003).

Substantial evidence supports the Id’s and BIA’s denial of the withholding of removal claim based on an adverse credibility determination. Ghazaryan testified inconsistently with her asylum application regarding matters that go to the heart of her claim, including whether the arson of her family’s bakery was politically or religiously motivated, and whether she was initially accosted by neighbors who were government employees prior to her…