UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 04-2085
PAMELA NEG TINONG,
Petitioner,
versus
ALBERTO R. GONZALES, Attorney General,
Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration
Appeals. (A96-094-252))
Submitted: April 27, 2005 Decided: May 19, 2005
Before NIEMEYER, WILLIAMS, and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges.
Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Danielle Beach-Oswald, NOTO & OSWALD, P.C., Washington, D.C., for
Petitioner. Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, M.
Jocelyn Lopez Wright, Assistant Director, Larry P. Cote, UNITED
STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:
Pamela Neg Tinong (“Tinong”), a native and citizen of
Cameroon, petitions for review of an order of the Board of
Immigration Appeals (Board) affirming the immigration judge's (IJ)
denial of her application for asylum and withholding of removal.
Tinong challenges the IJ's finding that she failed to present
credible testimony and thus did not meet her burden of proof to
qualify for asylum.
To obtain reversal of a determination denying eligibility
for relief, an alien "must show that the evidence he presented was
so compelling that no reasonable factfinder could fail to find the
requisite fear of persecution." INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S.
478, 483-84 (1992). We have reviewed the evidence of record and
conclude that the IJ's negative credibility findings are supported
by specific, cogent reasons. Figeroa v. INS, 886 F.2d 76, 78 (4th
Cir. 1989). Accordingly, Tinong fails to show that the evidence
compels a contrary result.
Finally, we lack jurisdiction over Tinong’s challenge to
the denial of her applications for withholding of removal and
protection under the Convention Against Torture because she failed
to properly exhaust these claims in her appeal to the Board. See
8 U.S.C. § 1252(d)(1) (2000); Asika v. Ashcroft, 362 F.3d 264, 267
n.3 (4th Cir. 2004), cert. denied, 125 S. Ct. 861 (2005).
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Accordingly, we deny the petition for review. We
dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions
are adequately presented in the materials before the court and
argument would not aid the decisional process. Respondent’s
motions to strike documents in the joint appendix and to file a
supplemental appendix are denied.
PETITION DENIED
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