Carlos Hughes

To Whom It May Concern, I live and work in China and will do for the foreseeable future, more than likely until the day I retire. I am a British citizen who has 15 years of NI contributions on my record and was born, raised and schooled in the UK thus I am qualified to pay Class 2 credits as I worked immediately before leaving the UK to live abroad in 2013, however, and this has been going on for two years now, the HMRC keep insisting that I am not eligible to pay class 2 credits even though I fulfil all the criteria, can anyone ask what would disqualify me from being able to pay class 2 credits when I am eligible (according to the wording of the eligibility criteria)? It doesn't say there is a qualifying period of how much work you had to have done before leaving the UK, just that you have had to have worked immediately before leaving the UK. All I get from them is 'you haven't paid enough credits' though I have actually paid 15 years, no-one has explained why I haven't paid enough credits?