Opinion ID: 2612
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The BIA Affirmance

Text: Li appealed the IJ's adverse credibility finding to the BIA. The brief submitted by counsel to the Board on Li's behalf contains just over two pages of argument. Nowhere therein does Li mention, much less challenge, the identified inconsistencies between her relief application and her hearing testimony regarding the circumstances of her past arrest. Nor does the brief fault the IJ for rejecting Li's credibility based on her unconvincing demeanor and failure to adduce reasonably available corroborative evidence from her husband. Instead, Li's administrative appeal argued that the IJ erred in finding her not to be credible based on the vagueness of her testimony, contradictory website information about Falun Gong, and the lack of authentication for corroborative documentary evidence. The BIA summarily rejected these arguments, prompting this petition for review.