OPINION
Supramaniyam Satheeskumar, a Sri Lankan citizen of Tamil ethnicity, attempted to enter the United States on November 20, 2010. After a credible fear interview, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) issued him a Notice to Appear charging him as removable under Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) § 212(a)(7)(A)(i)(I) [8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(7)(A)(i)(I) ]. On January 3, 2011, Satheeskumar submitted an application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention against Torture (“CAT”). In support of his application, Satheeskumar claimed that he is eligible for relief because the Sri Lankan army believes that he supported the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (“LTTE”), a separatist group. Specifically, he alleged that the Sri Lankan army had beaten his brother and killed his uncle in the early 1990s, if not earlier. After those events, but before 1993, Satheesku-mar dug bunkers for the LTTE. In April 2009, the Sri Lankan army forced him to stay in an internment camp, where he was beaten. He was able to escape the camp in February 2010 by paying a bribe.
An Immigration Judge (“IJ”) found him removable, denied his applications for asylum and withholding of removal based on, inter alia, an adverse credibility determination, and concluded that he was not eligible for CAT protection. On September 15, 2011, the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA” or “Board”) dismissed Sa-theeskumar’s appeal, concluding that the IJ’s adverse credibility determination was not clearly erroneous.1
In October 2011, Satheeskumar filed a petition for review of the BIA’s September 15, 2011 order. At the same time, he filed a motion for relief with the BIA premised on changed circumstances in Sri Lanka. After full briefing of his petition before us, *130the BIA granted his motion to reopen and remanded the record to the IJ for further proceedings related to Satheeskumar’s request for relief under the CAT. The Government then filed a motion to dismiss Satheeskumar’s petition for review, and Satheeskumar filed a motion to hold his case in abeyance. We determined that the reopening of Satheeskumar’s proceedings rendered the removal order non-final and granted the Government’s motion to dismiss. See Satheeskumar v. Att’y Gen., 480 Fed.Appx. 121, 123-24 (3d Cir. May 15, 2012). We specifically noted that our decision “in no way precludes Satheeskumar from seeking judicial review of the BIA’s denial of asylum and withholding of removal once the agency has fully adjudicated his CAT application and entered a final order.” Id. at 123.
On July 17, 2012, the IJ granted Sa-theeskumar CAT protection, holding that he “presented sufficient evidence to establish that he would ‘more likely than not’ personally be at risk of torture if he were removed to Sri Lanka” as a “returning Tamil asylum seeker.” See Silva-Rengifo v. Att’y Gen., 473 F.3d 58, 64 (3d Cir.2007) (noting that, after implementation of the CAT, it became “the policy of the United States not to expel ... or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country in which there are substantial grounds for believing the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture .... ” (alterations in original) (quoting Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (“FARRA”), Pub.L. No. 105-277, div. G., tit. XXII, § 2242, 112 Stat. 2681-822 (codified at 8 U.S.C. § 1231 note))); see also Ali v. Achim, 468 F.3d 462, 471 n. 5 (7th Cir.2006) (“Deferral of removal [under the CAT] does not confer permanent immigration status on an alien, and an alien who has been granted this form of relief may be removed to another country where there is no likelihood of torture.” (citing 8 C.F.R. § 1208.17(b)(2))). The DHS did not appeal that decision to the BIA. Satheeskumar filed the instant petition for review on August 17, 2012.
We have jurisdiction under INA § 242.2 Because the BIA adopted the findings of the IJ and also commented on the sufficiency of the IJ’s determinations, we review the decisions of both the BIA and *131the IJ. Kaita v. Att’y Gen., 522 F.3d 288, 296 (Bd Cir.2008). Our review of these decisions is for substantial evidence, considering whether they are “supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole.” Lin-Zkeng v. Att’y Gen., 557 F.3d 147, 155 (3d Cir.2009) (en banc) (internal citation omitted). We will uphold an adverse credibility determination under the substantial evidence standard “ ‘unless any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary.’ ” Lin v. Att’y Gen., 543 F.3d 114, 119 (3d Cir. 2008) (internal citation omitted). Because Satheeskumar filed his applications for relief after the enactment of the REAL ID Act, the inconsistencies, inaccuracies, or falsehoods upon which the adverse credibility finding is based need not go to the heart of his claim. Id. at 119 n. 5. Rather, the REAL ID Act permits credibility determinations to be based on observations of Satheeskumar’s demeanor, the plausibility of his story, and the consistency of his statements. INA § 208(b)(l)(B)(iii) [8 U.S.C. § 1158(b)(l)(B)(iii) ]; Gabuniya v. Att’y Gen., 463 F.3d 316, 322 n. 7 (3d Cir.2006).
We conclude that the adverse credibility determination is supported by substantial evidence. The IJ identified four omissions and inconsistencies, “the cumulative effect of [which] rendered [Satheeskumar’s] testimony not credible”: (1) Satheeskumar testified on cross examination that the Sri Lankan army destroyed his hardware store in 1996, but did not mention that incident in his written asylum application or during his direct testimony; (2) he testified that the army shot and killed his cousin in 1988, but failed to include that allegation in his written application; (3) he stated in his written application that he was beaten in the internment camp on “three different occasions,” but testified that he was assaulted two times; and (4) he claimed in his asylum application that he helped the LTTE by digging bunkers “for nearly one year,” but testified that he dug bunkers only “three times.”
Although Satheeskumar has challenged each of these discrepancies/omissions, his responses to the first three of them are unavailing.3 In particular, he attempts to characterize as “trivial” the destruction of his hardware store, the death of his cousin, and the beatings while in the internment camp. The details of those incidents, however, are central to Satheeskumar’s underlying claim that he fears persecution by the Sri Lankan army. In this connection, we reject Satheeskumar’s suggestion that we should ignore these inconsistencies because his asylum claim is based solely on his “escape! ] from the camp in 2009.” In sum, the inconsistencies indentified by the IJ clearly undermined Satheeskumar’s credibility and, based on the record before us, we cannot find that “any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled” to reach a contrary conclusion than that reached by the IJ and BIA in this ease. Gabuniya, 463 F.3d at 321.
For the foregoing reasons, we will deny the petition for review.