Case Name: SONG LIN YUAN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-07-21
Citations: 444 F. App'x 221
Docket Number: No. 08-71922
Parties: SONG LIN YUAN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: SCHROEDER, ALARCÓN, and LEAVY, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 444
Pages: 221–222

Head Matter:
SONG LIN YUAN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 08-71922.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted July 12, 2011.
Filed July 21, 2011.
Daniel Fong, Fong Law Group, Inc., Monterey Park, CA, for Petitioner.
Juria L. Jones, 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: SCHROEDER, ALARCÓN, and LEAVY, 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
Song Lin Yuan, a native and citizen of China, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge's decision denying her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence. Quan v. Gonzales, 428 F.3d 883, 885 (9th Cir.2005). We deny in part and grant in part the petition for review, and we remand.
Substantial evidence supports the BIA's denial of CAT relief because Yuan failed to establish it is more likely than not that she will be tortured if returned to China. See Ahmed v. Keisler, 504 F.3d 1183, 1201 (9th Cir.2007).
Substantial evidence does not support the BIA's adverse credibility determination based on a perceived inconsistency regarding the circumstances of Yuan becoming a Christian, see Quan, 428 F.3d at 887, or the omissions from Yuan's application of details regarding her arrest and release from detention, see Bandari v. INS, 227 F.3d 1160, 1166-67 (9th Cir.2000); see also Lopez-Reyes v. INS, 79 F.3d 908, 911 (9th Cir.1996).
In addition, substantial evidence does not support the BIA's finding that Yuan failed to show her business was closed on account of a protected ground. See Canales-Vargas v. Gonzales, 441 F.3d 739, 744-45 (9th Cir.2006). Because the agency did not consider this incident when evaluating Yuan's past persecution claim, we remand for the agency to do so in the first instance. See INS v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 16-18, 123 S.Ct. 353, 154 L.Ed.2d 272 (2002) (per curiam).
Accordingly, we grant the petition with respect to Yuan's asylum and withholding of removal claims, and remand to the agency, on an open record, for further proceedings consistent with this disposition. See id.; see also Soto-Olarte v. Holder, 555 F.3d 1089, 1093-96 (9th Cir.2009).
Each party shall bear its own costs for this petition for review.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; GRANTED in part; REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.