Karapetian

MEMORANDUM **

Petitioners, Karine Yladmir Karapetian and her son Georgi Agamelian, seek review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) affirmance of the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) order denying their petition for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”) based on an adverse credibility determination, as well as the denial of their motion to reopen. We dismiss in part, and grant and remand in part.

We review the adverse credibility determination for substantial evidence. Garrovillas v. INS, 156 F.3d 1010, 1013 (9th Cir.1998). Although this standard is “ ‘extremely deferential,’ ” Singh-Kaur v. INS, 183 F.3d 1147, 1149 (9th Cir.1999) (quoting Ghaly v. INS, 58 F.3d 1425, 1431 (9th Cir.1995)), we do “not accept blindly an IJ’s conclusion that a petitioner is not credible. Rather, we examine the record to see whether substantial evidence supports that conclusion, and determine whether the reasoning employed by the IJ is fatally flawed.” Aguilera-Cota v. INS, 914 F.2d 1375, 1381 (9th Cir.1990).

In arriving at its adverse credibility determination, the agency relied on three principal inconsistencies in the Petitioners’ case…