Married petitioners Demesi Kedei (“Kedei”) and Lite Rokosipo Kedei are natives and citizens of Fiji who seek asylum and withholding of removal. Immigration Judge (“IJ”) Dana Marks Keener denied relief, and the Board of Immigration Appeals affirmed without opinion. We review the IJ’s decision directly as it is the final agency determination, Falcon Carriche v. Ashcroft, 350 F.3d 845, 849 (9th Cir.2003), and we deny the petition for review. Kedei is the lead petitioner and was the only witness at the petitioners’ asylum hearing. He testified that his mother is a Solomon Islander, and that he was persecuted in Fiji by members of his own family because of hi , 520 (9th Cir.1990) (<HOLDING>). PETITION DENIED. * This disposition is not
holding that the use of a fraudulent document to escape persecution does not undermine a petitioners credibility in asylum proceedings holding when one identified ground for an adverse credibility determination is supported by substantial evidence and goes to the heart of petitioners claim of persecution the court is bound to accept the ijs adverse credibility determination holding that substantial evidence supported an adverse credibility finding where the petitioners two asylum applications differed significantly regarding past persecution holding that material alterations in the applicants account of persecution are sufficient to support an adverse credibility finding holding that substantial evidence supported an adverse credibility finding where inter alia the petitioners claimed guerrilla persecution on their asylum applications but later claimed government persecution