Gulilat

MEMORANDUM *

Petitioner Demelash G.M. Gulilat (“Gulilat”) appeals an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”), summarily affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying Gulilat’s application for asylum, withholding of removal, and request for relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We affirm.

Where, as here, the BIA summarily affirms the IJ, we review the IJ’s decision. See Tapia v. Gonzales, 430 F.3d 997, 999 (9th Cir.2005). The IJ denied Gulilat’s application based on an adverse credibility determination. We review the IJ’s adverse credibility determination for substantial evidence, although “the IJ must provide specific, cogent reasons for reaching an adverse credibility determination, and minor inconsistencies or factual omissions that do not go to the heart of the asylum claim are insufficient to support it.” Singh v. Ashcroft, 367 F.3d 1139, 1143 (9th Cir.2004) (internal citation omitted). Where the IJ identifies several grounds supporting the adverse credibility determination, we must affirm so long as one of those grounds is supported by substantial *50 evidence and goes to the heart of the claim of persecution. See Li v. Ashcroft, 378…