Shakhijanyan

MEMORANDUM ***

Sandukht Shakhijanyan, an elderly widow with medical problems, petitions for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals affirming the immigration judge’s denial of her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under Article 3 of the Convention Against Torture. We deny the petition.

Shakhijanyan challenges the IJ’s adverse credibility determination. We review adverse credibility findings under the substantial evidence standard, under which “the administrative findings of fact are conclusive unless any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary.” See 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (b)(4)(B); INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478 , 481 n. 1, 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). An adverse credibility finding must be “based on specific, cogent reasons that bear a legitimate nexus to the finding.” Zahedi v. INS, 222 F.3d 1157, 1165 (9th Cir.2000).

The IJ denied Shakhijanyan’s requested relief after finding that “the instant case is replete with inconsistent information, all of which goes to the very heart of [her] claim.” Indeed, Shakhijanyan stated in her application for relief that she “escaped from Armenia” after having…