Case Name: YUNQIN ZHENG, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2013-08-16
Citations: 537 F. App'x 770
Docket Number: No. 11-72936
Parties: YUNQIN ZHENG, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 537
Pages: 770–771

Head Matter:
YUNQIN ZHENG, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 11-72936.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Aug. 13, 2013.
Filed Aug. 16, 2013.
Jisheng Li, Law Office of Jisheng Li, Honolulu, HI, for Petitioner.
Gerald Alexander, OIL, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, ICE, Chief Counsel, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: HAWKINS, THOMAS, and McKEOWN, 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
Yunqin Zheng petitions for review from the Board of Immigration Appeals' decision denying her claims for asylum and withholding of removal. We deny the petition for review. Because the parties are familiar with the history of this case, we need not recount it here.
Substantial evidence supports the immigration judge's (IJ's) adverse credibility determination, which the Board adopted and affirmed. The IJ found Zheng's testimony that she worked forty-hour weeks inconsistent with her later testimony that she worked seven days a week for eight or nine hours a day. Zheng had two opportunities to explain this inconsistency but did not do so. Though "trivial inconsistencies" cannot support an adverse credibility finding, Shrestha v. Holder, 590 F.3d 1034, 1044 (9th Cir.2010), this inconsistency about Zheng's hours was significant because much of Zheng's testimony concerned her claim that her work schedule prevented her from attending church more frequently. Therefore, we deny the petition for review on the basis of this incon sistency without opining on the sufficiency of the rest of the IJ's reasons for finding Zheng not credible. See Rizk v. Holder, 629 F.3d 1083, 1088 (9th Cir.2011) ("we must uphold the IJ's adverse credibility determination so long as even one basis is supported by substantial evidence").
Substantial evidence supports the Board's determination that Zheng failed to establish a well-founded fear of persecution based on evidence or testimony independent of her own non-credible testimony. See Gu v. Gonzales, 454 F.3d 1014, 1021-22 (9th Cir.2006).
PETITION DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.