The Board of Immigration Appeals has dismissed the appeal of a Somali asylum applicant found not credible based on inconsistencies regarding his name, nationality, clan membership, and use of a fraudulently obtained Kenyan passport.
The Board held that identity is a threshold and critical element of any asylum claim, and that the immigration judge did not clearly err in finding the respondent failed to establish his identity given multiple unresolved discrepancies in his testimony and documentary evidence. Because the same discredited testimony was the only evidence supporting the CAT claim, the Board upheld the denial of that relief as well.
The full text of Matter of I-S-M- can be found here: https://www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1455271/dl?inline