Case Name: Kulwant KAUR; et al., Petitioners, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2015-06-02
Citations: 606 F. App'x 361
Docket Number: No. 12-71522
Parties: Kulwant KAUR; et al., Petitioners, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: PAEZ and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges and KOBAYASHI, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 606
Pages: 361–362

Head Matter:
Kulwant KAUR; et al., Petitioners, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 12-71522.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted May 11, 2015.
Filed June 2, 2015.
Alan Mark Kaufman, Esquire, Kaufman & Kaufman, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioners. ■
Matt Crapo, 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: PAEZ and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges and KOBAYASHI, District Judge.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
The Honorable Leslie E. Kobayashi, District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Kulwant Kaur, Manpreet Kaur, and Gurpreet Singh petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing their appeal of the Immigration Judge's ("IJ") decision to" reopen removal proceedings and terminate then-grant of asylum on the basis of fraud. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(1). For the following reasons, we deny the petition for review.
1. The IJ did not abuse her discretion in granting the Department of Homeland Security's ("DHS") motion to reopen removal proceedings. See Valeriano v. Gonzales, 474 F.3d 669, 672 (9th Cir.2007). The DHS submitted with its motion an affidavit from a United States Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS") offi-eer who had reviewed Petitioners' immigration documents and interviewed Petitioners' family and neighbors. From this investigation, the officer concluded that Petitioner Kulwant Kaur ("Kaur") had falsely asserted in her 1997 asylum application that her husband was missing in India when, in fact, he was residing in the United States and even attended her 1998 asylum hearing. Because Petitioners' asylum claim was predicated on Kaur's husband's disappearance, the IJ did not err in finding that the officer's affidavit demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits. See Matter of A-N- & R-M-N-, 22 I. & N. Dec. 953, 955-56 (BIA 1999).
2. Substantial evidence supported the IJ's decision to terminate Petitioners' grant of asylum. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(4)(B). The DHS established by a preponderance of the evidence that Petitioners' grant of asylum had been obtained through fraud. See 8 C.F.R. § 1208.24(a)(1), (f). The IJ did not err in crediting the USCIS officer's testimony nor in drawing a negative inference from Petitioners' failure to testify.
DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.