Acosta v. Gonzales, ___ F.3d ___, ___ n.7 (9th Cir. Feb. 23, 2006) (noncitizen inadmissible for accruing more than one year of unlawful presence is eligible for penalty-fee adjustment of status: "We therefore reject the Governments attempted reliance on 8 C.F.R. 245.10(m) which states that an alien eligible for penalty-fee adjustment of status continues to accrue unlawful presence under 1182(a)(9)(C). We need not defer to this agency regulation because it is not based on a permissible construction of the statute. Akhtar, 384 F.3d at 1198."); but see Mortera-Cruz v. Gonzales, 409 F.3d 246, 254-256 (5th Cir. 2005) (reaching opposite result), based in part on Berrum-Garcia v. Comfort, 390 F.3d 1158 (10th Cir. 2004).

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