"I am 50 should, I make Class 3 contributions to UK pension?"

Fast enough reply time with online application. In my case just over 4 weeks between application and letter confirming class 2. Postal applications seem to take much longer, possibly several months. The important thing now is to get the application in, or to register with a call back from future pensions. Once you do this before April 5th they will honour your application.
 
So it looks like you absolutely need at least 3 years work in UK to qualify for class 2, if you have less probably get class 3 but nobody I have seen on these forums has got class 2 contributions with less than 3 years work record in UK?
 
I had 3 free years, and worked part-time for 18 months that straddled three tax years. None of the working years had full contributions and I qualified for Class 2.
 
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Yes but you were lucky enough on their system to be credited with 3 years, if somehow your work did not straddle 3 years you would not have qualified for class 2, that seems to be how they have done it
 
I had 3 free years, and worked part-time for 18 months that straddled three tax years. None of the working years had full contributions and I qualified for Class 2.
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More or less what I'm looking at and now appealing, complicated by the fact that a lot of my contributions don't seem to have been returned :-(
 
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You can qualify for Class 2 contributions with three years of residency if you have a shorter work record. This was the case for a relative of mine, who had only one year of paid contributions, but lived there as a child.
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I have a similar scenario to the above.

I got a payment schedule for class 3. I have just phoned them and asked for it to be reviewed. The guy on the phone said it should be class 2 but needs to go to the International team for review.
 
I got a letter (in august) saying it's class 3 after all. so 3 months ago i sent my payments for 13 years (2006-2019). it hasn't updated online yet
 
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I just logged in and instead of Full Year for every year between 2006 and 2019, it now says

2018 to 2019
Year is not full

2017 to 2018
Year is not full

All the others are Full.

I presume it's a website error because those two should be Full - but I will have to call them on Monday to check !
 
They've told me the payments have been re-allocated but had no information why that was done.

So a request has gone to the allocations team.

My guess is someone has updated it incorrectly following one of my live chats

Will phone them from now on
 
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