Zilfugharyan

MEMORANDUM ***

Narine Zilfugharyan (“Zilfugharyan”), her husband Grigor Simirjyan (“Mr. Simirjyan”) and their sixteen-year-old daughter Araksya Simirjyan (collectively “petitioners”), natives and citizens of Armenia, petition for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”), summarily affirming the denial by Immigration Judge Beverly M. Phillips (the “IJ”) of their applications for asylum, withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). The BIA also summarily affirmed the IJ’s approval of petitioners’ request for voluntary departure.

The parties are presumed to be familiar with the facts and procedural history of this case. Because the IJ found Zilfugharyan’s testimony credible, and the BIA did not make a contrary finding, we accept the facts given by petitioners and the reasonable inferences to be drawn from them as true. See Zheng v. Ashcroft, 382 F.3d 1186 , 1189 n. 4 (9th Cir.2003).

I. Eligibility for Asylum

The IJ found that Zilfugharyan and her family had suffered past persecution, but that they were ineligible for asylum because they did not have a subjectively genuine and objectively reasonable well-founded fear of…