UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 05-2311
JEAN BOSCO MURENZI,
Petitioner,
versus
ALBERTO R. GONZALES, Attorney General,
Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration
Appeals. (A95-903-144)
Submitted: September 25, 2006 Decided: October 16, 2006
Before WILKINSON, NIEMEYER, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.
Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Ivan Yacub, LAW OFFICE OF IVAN YACUB, Falls Church, Virginia, for
Petitioner. Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Carol
Federighi, Mark L. Gross, Andrew G. Braniff, Office of Immigration
Litigation, Civil Division, 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Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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:
Jean Bosco Murenzi, a native of Uganda and citizen of
Rwanda, petitions for review of an order of the Board of
Immigration Appeals (Board) affirming without opinion the
immigration judge’s denial of his applications for asylum,
withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against
Torture.* Because the Board affirmed under its streamlined
process, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.1(e)(4) (2006), the immigration
judge’s decision is the final agency determination. See Camara v.
Ashcroft, 378 F.3d 361, 366 (4th Cir. 2004).
Murenzi challenges the Board’s finding that his testimony
was not credible, and that he otherwise failed to meet his burden
of proof to qualify for asylum. We will reverse this decision only
if the evidence “was so compelling that no reasonable fact finder
could fail to find the requisite fear of persecution,” Rusu v. INS,
296 F.3d 316, 325 n.14 (4th Cir. 2002) (internal quotations and
citations omitted), and uphold credibility determinations if they
are supported by substantial evidence. See Tewabe v. Gonzales, 446
F.3d 533, 538 (4th Cir. 2006).
We have reviewed the administrative record and the
Board’s decision and find that substantial evidence supports the
*
As Murenzi’s brief raised no claims concerning the denial of
withholding of removal or protection under the Convention Against
Torture, any such claims are waived. Edwards v. City of Goldsboro,
178 F.3d 231, 241 n.6 (4th Cir. 1999).
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adverse credibility finding and the ruling that Murenzi failed to
establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future
persecution as necessary to establish eligibility for asylum. See
8 C.F.R. § 1208.13(a) (2006) (stating that the burden of proof is
on the alien to establish eligibility for asylum); INS v.
Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 483 (1992) (same).
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.
PETITION DENIED
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