Case Name: Yinhui SHI, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2015-09-24
Citations: 617 F. App'x 792
Docket Number: No. 12-72549
Parties: Yinhui SHI, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: GRABER, RAWLINSON, and WATFORD, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 617
Pages: 792–793

Head Matter:
Yinhui SHI, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 12-72549.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Sept. 2, 2015.
Filed Sept. 24, 2015.
Michael A. Rohr, Esquire, Law Offices Of Michael A. Rohr, West Covina, CA, for Petitioner.
Jeffery R. Leist, Trial, Oil, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: GRABER, RAWLINSON, and WATFORD, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Yinhui Shi, a native and citizen of China, petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") denying his claims for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). The immigration judge found Shi not credible and denied his application, and the BIA affirmed. Substantial evidence supports the determination that Shi was not credible and therefore cannot establish eligibility for relief.
Shi testified that he was arrested in China on March 26, 2004, after being discovered with a copy of a publication critical of the Chinese government. He later testified that his son was two months old at the time. But he also testified and stated in his application that his son was born on March 17, 2004, just nine days before his arrest. Shi also testified that, two days after being released by the police, he went to a hospital, where he was told that a bone in his nose was dislocated. Shi claimed he was punched in the nose on the first day of his detention and punched in his head and kicked five days later. Shi testified that he was not released until nine or ten days after that. However, medical records showed that Shi went to the hospital five days after he claimed to be released, not two, and that he told the doctor that his nose had been painful for only one day.
"[Mjinor discrepancies in dates that . cannot be viewed as attempts by the applicant to enhance his claims of persecution have no bearing on credibility." Ren v. Holder, 648 F.3d 1079, 1086 (9th Cir.2011) (ellipsis in original) (quoting Singh v. Gonzales, 403 F.3d 1081, 1092 (9th Cir.2005)). But it was not unreasonable for the BIA to expect Shi to remember that his second child was born just nine days, rather than two months, before he was supposedly arrested, beaten.by police, and detained for over two weeks. Nor was it unreasonable to expect him to recall when he sought treatment for the injuries he allegedly suffered. We thus cannot say that the record in this case compels a contrary result. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(4)(B); Garcia v. Holder, 749 F.3d 785, 789-91 (9th Cir.2014).
PETITION DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.
. Shi made no argument in his opening brief regarding the BIA's rejection of his CAT claim. That claim is thus waived. See Martinez-Serrano v. INS, 94 F.3d 1256, 1259 (9th Cir.1996).