Case Name: Sushil Kumar SHARMA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-05-12
Citations: 433 F. App'x 538
Docket Number: No. 07-72733
Parties: Sushil Kumar SHARMA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: GOODWIN and PAEZ, Circuit Judges, and O’GRADY, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 433
Pages: 538–539

Head Matter:
Sushil Kumar SHARMA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 07-72733.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted May 10, 2011.
Filed May 12, 2011.
Ashwani K. Bhakhri, Joseph John Siguenza, Esquire, Law Offices of Ashwani K. Bhakhri, Burlingame, CA, for Petitioner.
Aliza Bessie Alyeshmerni, Trial, OIL, Jeffrey Bernstein, Senior Litigation Counsel, Richard M. Evans, Esquire, Assistant Director, 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: GOODWIN and PAEZ, Circuit Judges, and O’GRADY, District Judge.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument.
See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
The Honorable Liam O’Grady, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Sushil Kumar Sharma, a citizen of India, was denied asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) as a result of an adverse credibility determination. His asylum application was also denied for failure to establish by clear and convincing evidence that he applied for asylum within one year of arrival in the United States. 8 U.S.C. 1158(a)(2)(B).
Sharma claims he joined the Jammu and Kashmir Human Rights Council (Council) in October 1999, and that his membership in this organization led to persecution. Sharma submitted a report of the Council that states that Sushil Sharma, as an officer of the Council, investigated human rights incidents in 1991. Sharma also submitted a 2001 affidavit that claimed that he had been involved in a human rights organization for six years.
The documentary evidence and Sharma's testimony suggest three different and inconsistent dates for Sharma joining the Council. The evidence of Sharma's involvement in the Council is an attempt to enhance Sharma's asylum claim and goes to the heart of that claim. See Zi Lin Chen v. Ashcroft, 362 F.3d 611, 617, 620 (9th Cir.2004). Sharma was given opportunities, but failed to resolve these discrepancies. See Joseph v. Holder, 600 F.3d 1235, 1244-45 (9th Cir.2010). These discrepancies provide substantial evidence to support a finding of adverse credibility. Singh v. INS, 134 F.3d 962, 966 (9th Cir. 1998). A reasonable fact-finder is not compelled to overturn the adverse credibility finding. Id.
Because the adverse credibility determination is dispositive of all of Sharma's claims, we need not reach the question of whether Sharma's asylum application met the one-year bar.
PETITION DENIED.
xhiS disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.