temporary resident under [INA § 210(a)(1) ], and if the alien’s status is thereafter automatically adjusted to lawful permanent resident without further inquiry into admissibility, the government may institute removal proceedings against the alien. But the government must do so on the premise that the alien is a lawful permanent resident alien rather than that the alien is inadmissible. Perez-Enriquez, 463 F.3d at 1010-1011 (emphasis added). Lopez was lawfully admitted as a temporary resident and automatically adjusted to lawful permanent resident status under the provisions of the SAW statute. INA § 210(a). Therefore, Lopez must be treated as a lawful permanent resident, and his application for relief under INA § 212(c) must be allowed to go forward. PerezEnriquez, 463 F.3d at 1010 (<HOLDING>). GRANTED IN PART, DISMISSED IN PART, AND
holding that we have jurisdiction to review an aliens legal eligibility for relief under former ina  212c holding that section 212c relief is unavailable to a lawful permanent resident convicted of a firearms offense qualifying under 8 usc  1227a2c holding that an alien is only lawfully admitted for permanent residence for purposes of the ina if his or her adjustment to lawful permanent resident complied with substantive legal requirements and that because the alien failed to show that she had complied with the relevant substantive legal requirements the ij correctly determined that she had not been lawfully admitted for permanent residence and was not entitled to  212c relief holding that a lawful permanent resident alien is entitled to seek relief under ina  212c holding that adjustment of status was permitted even if deportable alien had entered the country as a lawful permanent resident