Case Name: JIAJIE LUO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-03-01
Citations: 417 F. App'x 645
Docket Number: No. 08-70519
Parties: JIAJIE LUO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: CANBY, FERNANDEZ, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 417
Pages: 645–646

Head Matter:
JIAJIE LUO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 08-70519.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Feb. 15, 2011.
Filed March 1, 2011.
Mark E. Kondas, Esquire, L.A. Baumann & Associates, Hagatna, GU, for Petitioner.
Brooke Maurer, OIL, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, AGU-District Director, Esquire, Office of the District Director, Hagatna, GU, Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: CANBY, FERNANDEZ, and M. SMITH, 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
Jiajie Luo, a native and citizen of China, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge's ("IJ") decision denying his applications for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo questions of law and for substantial evidence factual findings. Husyev v. Mukasey, 528 F.3d 1172, 1177 (9th Cir.2008). We deny the petition for review.
Substantial evidence supports the agency's adverse credibility finding based on the inconsistency between Luo's original and subsequent accounts of the factual basis for his claim, see Husyev, 528 F.3d at 1183 (omission of petitioner's political activism in his application and interview went to the heart of his claim), and based on the implausible account of the omission of his father's flight from China in his original application, see Li v. Ashcroft, 378 F.3d 959, 963-64 (9th Cir.2004) (adverse credibility finding supported where petitioner omitted wife's forced sterilization from prior accounts and immigration judge addressed proffered explanation for omission). We also reject Luo's contention that the agency erred by failing to consider two corroborating documents because the IJ stated that she examined the documentary evidence, and Luo has not overcome the presumption that the agency reviewed the record. See Fernandez v. Gonzales, 439 F.3d 592, 603 (9th Cir.2006). Accordingly, in the absence of credible testimony, we deny the petition as to Luo's asylum and withholding of removal claims.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.