Case Name: Anastasia ELVIYANTI, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2004-10-29
Citations: 112 F. App'x 840
Docket Number: No. 03-4114
Parties: Anastasia ELVIYANTI, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.
Judges: Before: SCIRICA, Chief Judge, and FISHER and GREENBERG, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 112
Pages: 840–841

Head Matter:
Anastasia ELVIYANTI, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.
No. 03-4114.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
Submitted under Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a) Oct. 29, 2004.
Decided Oct. 29, 2004.
Alfonso Caprara, Philadelphia, PA, for Petitioner.
Linda S. Wernery, John M. McAdams, Jr., United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: SCIRICA, Chief Judge, and FISHER and GREENBERG, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
GREENBERG, Circuit Judge.
This matter comes on before this court on Anastasia Elviyanti's petition for review of a decision and order of the Board of Immigration Appeals entered September 17, 2003, affirming a decision of an immigration judge of February 1, 2002, in this case. The immigration judge set forth the background of the matter in his oral opinion denying Elviyanti's request for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture. The proceedings had been instituted against Elviyanti because she overstayed her authority to remain in the United States after being admitted as a non-immigrant visitor. In rejecting her application, the immigration judge found that she had "been totally incredible and therefore [had] not established a well-founded fear of persecution . if she were returned to Indonesia."
On appeal the BIA indicated:
We will affirm the decision of the Immigration Judge. See Matter of Burbano, 20 I & N Dec. 872, 974, 1994 WL 520994 (BIA 1994) (noting that adoption or affirmance of a decision of an Immigration Judge, in whole or in part, is 'simply a statement that the Board's conclusions upon review of the record coincide with those the Immigration Judge articulated in his or her decision'). Even if we were to find the respondent's claim to be credible, she has not established past persecution, for nothing actually happened to her in her home country that was of a level of harm amounting to persecution. Moreover, she has established no nexus between her attackers and her religion, or any other protected ground. Finally, the respondent has not established that she fears persecution from the government, or from a group the government was unwilling or unable to control. Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed.
We recently set forth the jurisdictional basis for review of removal orders in Chen v. Ashcroft, 376 F.3d 215 (3d Cir.2004), and in the same opinion set forth our standard of review in such cases. It is sufficient to note that our jurisdiction is under section 242(a)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(1), and that "[w]e review adverse credibility determinations for substantial evidence. Under this deferential standard of review, we must uphold the credibility determination of the BIA or IJ unless 'any reasonable adjudication would be compelled to conclude to the contrary.' 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(4)(B). Accordingly, we are required to sustain an adverse credibility determination 'unless . no reasonable person' would have found the applicant incredible." Chen, 376 F.3d at 222 (citations omitted).
After our review of the matter and exercising the appropriate standard of review we find no basis to grant Elviyanti relief. Accordingly, we will deny the petition for review.