Case Name: XIUQIN LIANG, Petitioner, v. Jeff B. SESSIONS, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-02-22
Citations: 677 F. App'x 419
Docket Number: Nos. 14-71490, 14-72969
Parties: XIUQIN LIANG, Petitioner, v. Jeff B. SESSIONS, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: GOODWIN, FARRIS, and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 677
Pages: 419–420

Head Matter:
XIUQIN LIANG, Petitioner, v. Jeff B. SESSIONS, Attorney General, Respondent.
Nos. 14-71490, 14-72969
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted February 14, 2017
Filed February 22, 2017
Xiaosheng Huang, Esquire, Attorney, Law Huang International Ltd., Las Vegas, NV, for Petitioner
OIL, DOJ—U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel ICE, Office of the Chief Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Hillel Ryder Smith, DOJ—U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent
Before: GOODWIN, FARRIS, and FERNANDEZ, 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
Xiuqin Liang, 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 and withholding of removal (No. 14-71490), and of the BIA's subsequent denial of her motion to reopen proceedings (No. 14-72969). Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence the agency's factual findings, applying the standards governing adverse credibility determinations created by the REAL ID Act, Shrestha v. Holder, 590 F.3d 1034, 1039-40 (9th Cir. 2010), and review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reopen, Sharma v. Holder, 633 F.3d 865, 872 (9th Cir. 2011). We deny the petitions for review.
Liang's renewed request to refer this case to mediation is denied in light of our resolution of her previous request (No. 14-71490, Docket Entry No. 9; No. 14-72969, Docket Entry No. 7).
We lack jurisdiction to consider Liang's request for prosecutorial discretion. See Vilchiz-Soto v. Holder, 688 F.3d 642, 644 (9th Cir. 2012) (order).
As to petition No. 14-71490, substantial evidence supports the agency's adverse credibility determination based on Liang's inability to recall the address of the business she claimed to have run from 1999 to 2006, the discrepancy as to whether Liang's husband was beaten after Liang escaped China, and the agency's findings regarding Liang's trips to the hospital where she allegedly underwent two abortions. See Shrestha, 590 F.3d at 1048 (adverse credibility finding reasonable under the totality of the circumstances). The agency reasonably rejected Liang's explanations. See Zamanov v. Holder, 649 F.3d 969, 974 (9th Cir.2011) ("the record does not compel the finding that the IJ's unwillingness to believe [the explanation] was erroneous"). In the absence of credible testimony, in this case, Liang's asylum and withholding of removal claims fail. See Huang v. Holder, 744 F.3d 1149, 1156 (9th Cir. 2014).
As to petition No. 14-72969, the BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Liang's motion to reopen where Liang failed to present clear and convincing evidence of a strong likelihood that her marriage to a United States citizen was bona fide. See Sharma, 633 F.3d at 872 (applicant must offer evidence "probative of the motivation for marriage, not just the bare fact of getting married")(internal citation and quotation omitted).
PETITIONS FOR REVIEW DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.