Case Name: Zhozef KARAPETIAN, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-08-15
Citations: 141 F. App'x 655
Docket Number: No. 03-74138
Parties: Zhozef KARAPETIAN, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 141
Pages: 655–656

Head Matter:
Zhozef KARAPETIAN, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 03-74138.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Aug. 1, 2005.
Decided Aug. 15, 2005.
Zhozef Karapetian, Glendale, CA, pro se.
Regional Counsel, Western Region Immigration & Naturalization Service, Laguna Niguel, CA OIL, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Div./Office of Immigration Lit., Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: O’SCANNLAIN, CALLAHAN and BEA, Circuit Judges.
This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Zhozef Karapetian, a native and citizen of Iran, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") decision, which summarily affirmed the Immigration Judge's ("IJ") order denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We deny the petition for review.
"Where, as here, the BIA adopts the IJ's decision while adding its own reasons, we review both decisions." See Kataria v. INS; 232 F.3d 1107, 1112 (9th Cir.2000). We review for substantial evidence an adverse credibility determination. Chebchoub v. INS, 257 F.3d 1038, 1042 (9th Cir.2001).
Substantial evidence supports the IJ's adverse credibility determination based upon the omissions in Karapetian's testimony of incidents that he described in his asylum application. See id. at 1043. Karapetian failed to mention both that the police beat his wife and that she subse quently suffered a miscarriage, and that the police arrested him in 1997 and broke his arm by throwing him out of a moving car. Because these omissions go to the heart of his asylum claim, substantial evidence supports the IJ's credibility finding. See id.
Because Karapetian did not establish that he was eligible for asylum, it follows that he did not satisfy the more stringent standard for withholding of removal. See Farah v. Ashcroft, 348 F.3d 1153, 1156 (9th Cir.2003).
We lack jurisdiction to consider Karapetian's CAT claim because he failed to exhaust the issue with the BIA. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir.2004).
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.