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Attention: National Federations and Players who would like to transfer federation:

Application procedure to change federation

In order to officially apply to transfer federation, a player should provide the Elista FIDE Office
(federations@fide.com, or fax +7 84722 39839) with the following:

1. the official confirmation from the new federation (by e-mail) that it agrees to accept the transferee as its new member, and that the new federation agrees to pay a notification fee (in accordance with FIDE regulations C.05 ) in the amount of 130 Euro for the transfer. On receipt of their agreement, the transfer shall be announced and the new federation shall be invoiced.

Please note that the notification fee payment can be made by bank transfer to the FIDE bank account. Please download the details of FIDE Bank account. We would like to ask you to send us the scanned image of the bank transfer order. Upon receipt of this document, the change of federation will be made.

2. a statement by the former federation (e-mail) that it has no objection to the transfer. Otherwise, the notification will be posted on the FIDE site for the period of three months after which it can be considered as valid and the transfer will be made without the former federation's approval.

3. the scanned image of a player's passport (photo and citizenship)

4. the scanned image of a residence certificate if any.

5. the filled in Application form. Please draw special attention to the last FIDE event under the flag of the former federation.

Eligibility to Participate in FIDE Events Under the New Flag

In order to avoid any misinterpretation of the regulations, we would like to underline some points of the regulations for the players wishing to represent the new federation in FIDE events after the transfer:

1. a transferred player can represent the New federation in FIDE events only in 10 months after the notification date.

2. a transferred player wishing to represent the new federation in a FIDE event that will take place during the three years starting from the Date of eligibility to participate in FIDE events (in 10 months) may do so on condition of a FEE and is supposed to pay a one-time Transfer fee in accordance with the Transfer fee structure of the regulations.

3. a transferred player can represent the new federation in the FIDE event that will take place after 36 months from the Notification date Without Fee.

4. a transferred player who did not represent the former federation 5 years prior to the notification date, is eligible to represent the New Federation in one year after the Notification date Without Fee.

5. a transferred player with dual citizenship (including the country of the new federation) who did not represent the former federation in a FIDE event during the preceding year, is eligible to represent the new federation right after the transfer Without Fee.

6. a transferred player with dual citizenship who participates in FIDE events under the former federation during the preceding year is required to pay the respective Fee.

See C.0.5 General Rules of participation in the FIDE events for your kind information.