Case Name: Edvard Romanos YERITSYAN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2013-11-08
Citations: 544 F. App'x 734
Docket Number: No. 09-73108
Parties: Edvard Romanos YERITSYAN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: PREGERSON, WARDLAW, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 544
Pages: 734–735

Head Matter:
Edvard Romanos YERITSYAN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 09-73108.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Oct. 9, 2013.
Filed Nov. 8, 2013.
Peter A. Hosharian, Esquire, Law Offices of Peter A. Hosharian, Glendale, CA, for Petitioner.
Erica Miles, Oil, DOJ-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: PREGERSON, WARDLAW, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Edvard Romanos Yeritsyan, a native and citizen of Armenia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals's ("BIA") dismissal of his appeal from an Immigration Judge's ("IJ") denial of his applications for asylum, withholding of re moval, and relief under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252, and we deny the petition for review.
Yeritsyan submitted his asylum application on June 26, 2007. Since the application was filed on or after May 11, 2005, it is governed by the provisions of the REAL ID Act. See Shrestha v. Holder, 590 F.3d 1034, 1039 (9th Cir.2010).
Substantial evidence supports the BIA's denial of relief on adverse credibility grounds based on discrepancies between Yeritsyan's testimony, his Petition for Alien Fiancé(e) (I-129F), his nonimmi-grant visa application, and his asylum application.
In particular, Yeritsyan's testimony conflicts with his immigration applications regarding the identity of his employer in December 2006. Yeritsyan testified at his December 2007 merits hearing that by January 6, 2006, he was no longer working at Shirak Ltd.: "I was actually not working. [Shirak] . was close[d] . and we couldn't work." This conflicts with his nonimmigrant visa application, which states that as of December 2006 he was still employed by Shirak Ltd. in Gyumri, Armenia. Yeritsyan's asylum application states that he was employed by the Ken-tron television station in Yerevan, Armenia, in December 2006, and his cousin's declaration also states that Yeritsyan worked at the television station. The IJ provided Yeritsyan several opportunities to explain the inconsistencies between his testimony and his visa documents regarding his employment history and prior arrests, yet Yeritsyan failed to resolve where he was employed in December 2006. The discrepancies regarding his employment cast doubt on his credibility because Yerit-syan alleges that his final arrest and detention was due to his complaint against his employer at Kentron television station, a company allegedly sympathetic to the ruling party in Armenia.
The BIA's assessment that Yeritsyan lacked a genuine relationship with his putative fiancée is also supported by substantial evidence. The BIA noted that Yeritsyan had limited interactions with his putative fiancée, which amounted to three days in Armenia during their first meeting, one day in Moscow about a year later, and brief internet phone calls in 2005 and 2006. According to Yeritsyan's I-129F Petition for Alien Fiancé(e) signed in July 2006, his putative fiancée submitted and was denied an initial fiancée petition within the first two months of having known Yeritsyan. Yeritsyan also admitted that he never saw or lived with his fiancée in the United States and never married her.
The inconsistencies and lack of detail in Yeritsyan's various petitions for relief provide substantial evidence to support the BIA's decision that Yeritsyan was not credible. The BIA's reasons are "specific and cogent," and the adverse credibility determination is "reasonable" under the totality of the circumstances. Shrestha, 590 F.3d at 1048.
Because his- testimony is not credible, Yeritsyan's asylum and withholding of removal claims fail. See Farah v. Ashcroft, 348 F.3d 1153, 1156 (9th Cir.2003). Because there is no evidence in the record that compels a finding that it is more likely than not that he would be tortured at the direction of or with the consent or acquiescence of the Armenian government, his CAT claim also fails. See 8 C.F.R. § 1208.18(a)(1), (7).
For the foregoing reasons, we DENY the petition for review.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.