Case Name: Collins Sabum SCOTT, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2004-10-28
Citations: 111 F. App'x 698
Docket Number: No. 03-1209
Parties: Collins Sabum SCOTT, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 111
Pages: 698–698

Head Matter:
Collins Sabum SCOTT, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 03-1209.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted: Oct. 18, 2004.
Decided: Oct. 28, 2004.
Edwin K. Fogam, Silver Spring, Maryland, for Petitioner.
Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Mark C. Walters, Assistant Director, R. Lynne Harris, Senior Trial Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.
Before: WILKINSON, TRAXLER, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.
Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. See Local Rule 36(c).

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Collins Sabum Scott, a native and citizen of Cameroon, seeks review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (Board) affirming without opinion the immigration judge's denial of his application for asylum. We have reviewed the administrative record and the immigration judge's decision, designated by the Board as the final agency determination, and find that substantial evidence supports the immigration judge's conclusion that Scott failed to establish the past persecution or well-founded fear of future persecution necessary to establish eligibility for asylum. See 8 C.F.R. § 1208.13(a) (2003) (stating that the burden of proof is on the alien to establish eligibility for asylum); INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 483, 112 S.Ct. 812, 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992) (same). We will reverse the Board only if the evidence " "was so compelling that no reasonable fact finder could fail to find the requisite fear of persecution.'" Rusu v. INS, 296 F.3d 316, 325 n. 14 (4th Cir.2002) (quoting EliasZacarias, 502 U.S. at 483-84, 112 S.Ct. 812). We have reviewed the immigration judge's credibility determinations and find them supported by specific, cogent reasoning and therefore entitled to substantial deference. See Figeroa v. INS, 886 F.2d 76, 78 (4th Cir.1989). Thus, the administrative record supports the immigration judge's conclusion that Scott failed to establish his eligibility for asylum.
We deny Scott's petition for review. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
PETITION DENIED