Case Name: Gui Yun CHEN, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2004-06-25
Citations: 103 F. App'x 179
Docket Number: No. 03-71323; Agency No. A77-309-494
Parties: Gui Yun CHEN, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 103
Pages: 179–180

Head Matter:
Gui Yun CHEN, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 03-71323. Agency No. [ AXX-XXX-XXX ].
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted June 15, 2004.
Decided June 25, 2004.
William Kiang, San Gabriel, CA, for Petitioner.
Regional Counsel, Laguna Niguel, CA, CAC-District Counsel, Los Angeles, CA, Ronald E. LeFevre, Chief Legal Officer, San Francisco, CA, Shelley R. Goad, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before LEAVY, THOMAS, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Gui Yun Chen, a native and citizen of China, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' order affirming an immigration judge's ("IJ") denial of her application for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review the IJ's adverse credibility finding for substantial evidence, Wang v. INS, 352 F.3d 1250, 1253 (9th Cir.2003), and we deny the petition for review.
The IJ identified specific and cogent reasons for the adverse credibility finding, including inconsistencies within Chen's testimony regarding whether she told immigration officials she had suffered a forced abortion and the approximate dates of her conception and abortion. See id. at 1256-57. Because these inconsistencies go to the heart of Chen's asylum claim, substantial evidence supports the IJ's conclusion. See id. at 1253.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.