A court ruled that the Ministry of Justice's decision to not allow the application for nationality of a foreigner who illegally stayed in the country 20 years ago with a passport under someone else's name and was ordered to leave the country was legal. According to the legal community, on the 29th, the 2nd Administrative Division of the Seoul Administrative Court (Presiding Judge Gong Hyun-jin) ruled that the plaintiff lost in the lawsuit filed by Mr. Mr. A entered Korea as an industrial trainee. At the time, Mr. A was working at a company in Daegu, but in October of the same year, he left his workplace without permission and stayed illegally in the metropolitan area. Five years later, in December 2008, he received a departure order from the Ministry of Justice and voluntarily left the country. Afterwards, in February 2012, Mr. A re-entered Korea with a short-term general (C-3-1) visa issued in his name, and in the same year, he received a departure order from the Ministry of Justice. In May, I changed my visa to work visit status. Mr. A, who had left for China again, entered Korea in January 2015 with a visiting employment status, and changed his status to an overseas Korean in December 2018 to stay in Korea.