Case Name: Sveta ARUTUNYAN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-06-08
Citations: 382 F. App'x 604
Docket Number: No. 07-73348
Parties: Sveta ARUTUNYAN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: CANBY, THOMAS, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 382
Pages: 604–605

Head Matter:
Sveta ARUTUNYAN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 07-73348.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted May 25, 2010.
Filed June 8, 2010.
Anna A. Davitian, Esquire, Law Offices of Anna A. Davitian, Burbank, CA, for Petitioner.
OIL, Marshall Tamor Golding, Esquire, Allen W. Hausman, Esquire, Jeffrey L. Menkin, Esquire, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Ronald E. LeFevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: CANBY, THOMAS, and W. FLETCHER, 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
Sveta Arutunyan, a native and citizen of Armenia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge's decision denying her application for asylum. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence an adverse credibility determination, Sidhu v. INS, 220 F.3d 1085, 1088 (9th Cir.2000), and we deny the petition for review.
Substantial evidence supports the agency's adverse credibility determination based upon Arutunyan's submission of a fraudulent birth certificate, see Desta v. Ashcroft, 365 F.3d 741, 745 (9th Cir.2004) (fraudulent documents going to the heart of the claim may justify an adverse credibility finding), the omission from Arutu-nyan's testimony of election activities that according to her asylum application led her 2003 beating and detention, see Li v. Ashcroft, 378 F.3d 959, 962 (9th Cir.2004), and Arutunyan's misidentification of her party's candidate during the 2003 elections, see id. In the absence of credible testimony, Arutunyan's asylum claim fails. See Farah v. Ashcroft, 348 F.3d 1153, 1156 (9th Cir.2003).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.