Case Name: Sofokly DALIPI, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General; Carol Jenifer, District Director; Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondents
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2004-06-08
Citations: 100 F. App'x 461
Docket Number: No. 02-4441
Parties: Sofokly DALIPI, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General; Carol Jenifer, District Director; Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 100
Pages: 461–462

Head Matter:
Sofokly DALIPI, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General; Carol Jenifer, District Director; Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondents.
No. 02-4441.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
June 8, 2004.
Simon Edelstein, Berry Moorman, Birmingham, MI, for Petitioner.
Shelley Goad, Linda S. Wendtland, John C. Cunningham, U.S. Department of Justice, for Respondents.
Before SILER and GIBBONS, Circuit Judges; and REEVES, District Judge.
The Honorable Danny C. Reeves, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
ORDER
Sofokly Dalipi, a native and citizen of Albania, appeals from an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") affirming the immigration judge's decision to deny Dalipi's application for asylum and withholding of removal. The parties have waived oral argument, and this panel unanimously agrees that oral argument is not needed. Fed. R.App. P. 34(a).
On June 11, 1999, Dalipi arrived at the Newark International Airport in the United States, but was not admitted or paroled into the country because he sought admission through fraud or willful misrepresentation and did not possess valid travel documents. On July 14, 1999, the Immigration and Naturalization Service commenced removal proceedings on that basis.
On June 13, 2000, the immigration judge ("IJ") conducted a removal hearing. Dali-pi testified about alleged instances of past persecution and his reasons for believing that he will be subjected to future persecution should he return to Albania. He also provided the IJ with several documents intended to support his testimony. The IJ found that Dalipi was not credible and knowingly filed a frivolous application for asylum. The IJ denied Dalipi's application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Torture Convention. The BIA affirmed the IJ's decision without opinion.
The BIA's decision was supported by substantial evidence, Daneshvar v. Ashcroft, 355 F.3d 615, 624 (6th Cir.2004), and Dalipi has not presented compelling evidence sufficient to warrant reversal of the BIA's order. Ouda v. INS, 324 F.3d 445, 451 (6th Cir.2003).
Because the BIA's decision was supported by substantial evidence, the petition for review is denied.