Yes technically he could have come back after 21 years, which would mean starting from 2007(hence Suri is not eligible)

"How about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy
asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join
the master race. How's that for a religion?"
-- Frank Zappa, to a concert audience at the Rockpile, Toronto, May 1969

"There's one thing that has stayed constant throughout time. It's an instinctual part of man to conquer evil. The battle of good over evil in this world has not changed. It has remained constant throughout the millennia." - Kyle Thomas Brennan