Siqueira

MEMORANDUM **

Flavio Soares Siqueira, a native and citizen of Brazil, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal from the immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, Molina-Estrada v. INS, 293 F.3d 1089, 1093 (9th Cir.2002), and we deny the petition.

The record does not compel the conclusion that Siqueira’s untimely filing of his asylum application should be excused. See 8 C.F.R. § 1208.4 (a). Accordingly, we deny the petition as to Siqueira’s asylum claim.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s finding that Siqueira’s fear of future persecution is not on account of a protected ground, but stems from his personal relationships with his former co-workers. See Zayas-Marini v. INS, 785 F.2d 801, 806 (9th Cir.1986). We reject Siqueira’s argument that his co-workers from the police department attributed an anti-government corruption view to him because he never refused to accede to the corruption. Cf. Desir v. Ilchert, 840 F.2d 723, 727 (9th…