You are 30 years away from pension which at the moment is if I am not mistaken (assuming it's the state pension) becomes due at 67 ( you had better be paying your NI stamps if you want it) yet you claim to be retired their seems to be a contradiction.
I’m around 20 years from state pension. I have one year of NI contributions remaining. I am retired, I am not a pensioner.
It's even worse in the USA ... I have a friend that many years ago travelled to the US from Europe and left the USA over the Canadian border to go skiing before returning home. When the USA created their electronic database, there was a huge amount of missing entry/exit data and my friend was one of the ones affected so they had no electronic record of him having left the US.Haha you’ve not spent much time at the Home Office then
Butt you said you were 30 years away from retirement earlier so your credibility is somewhat punctured if you can't get that right. So now we can deduce you are somewhere around 47 give or take 5 to 10 years. All depending on when you started employment and how long you have been retired. Piece of string really.
Not sure why you’re so concerned about my life plans.
The typo, the last refuge of the scoundrel
If I were him I would avoid the country completely. It is a very unwelcoming place at the moment and people are being "detained" at the border crossings for any number of reasons, even simple ones such as your friend's. Their Border Control process is so overwhelmed by the various imposed whims of their president that there aren't enough people to deal with the backlog and a lot of, otherwise legal, entrants end up locked up in a detention facility until someone eventually sorts out their particular issue. The conditions they face would be comparable to rough camping on a platform at Piccadilly Circus tube station.
I don't think he particularly cares about you or your life plans but seems to be pointing out inconsistencies in your postings which, individually and in cumulation, do affect your credibility. As for your contributions, many of them end up in variations on you being "...right on this, trust me..." and, for me anyway, that is hard to do when those little inconsistencies are waving in the background and insulting arrogance becomes the foreground.
I had the same experience and was at the point of not renewing my UK licence as I am a duel national but realised that the convenience of using two passports for departure and entry from and to different countries would make renewing worthwhile. It was a surprisingly efficient and seamless process and service.
The passport office was a total shambles, but now is an examplar of government efficiency. Whoever turned it around needs to fix the rest of government. The NHS, HMRC, Planning etc.
and the thought of the flight to the UK is a larger deterrent.