Hakobyan v. Holder

MEMORANDUM ***

Hakob Hakobyan, a native and citizen of Armenia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) final order affirming the Immigration Judge’s (IJ) adverse credibility finding. We deny the petition.

In this pre-REAL ID Act case, the IJ’s adverse credibility determination will be upheld only if supported by substantial evidence. 1 Lei Li v. Holder, 629 F.3d 1154, 1157 (9th Cir.2011). However, we will affirm an adverse credibility determination even if “some of the factors the IJ relied upon are either unsupported or irrelevant, ‘so long as one of the identified…