ISU Rules
Due to the advantages of switching countries, the International Skating Union has set down rules requiring skaters to wait up to two years between representing countries and must meet residency requirements in order to represent his or her new country. The IOC's requirements are much stricter, requiring every person representing a country to hold citizenship from that country. Therefore, multinational pair and ice dancing teams may not able to qualify for Olympic Games due to citizenship problems. Such a team, however, could still represent that country at the World Figure Skating Championships, as ISU rules allow skaters to represent a country as residents, rather than citizens.
The skaters' previous home federations must also release the skater before they can compete for a different country as a resident in international competition.
Read more about this topic: Country Changes In Figure Skating
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