If you are a player then everything is restored. However, if you are a TD I believe that there is a clause that says that you can't let your membership expire or you lose your TD certification.
Expired USCF Membership
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No, no ...I'm just a player with 2 provisional games under my belt.
Jan 2, 2016
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I let mine expire for three months a year ago. Now, I must renew when its is time because I rejoined just before a tournament that I prefer never to miss.
You do not lose anything except a couple of issues of the magazine, which no one reads anyway. You also need to reregister if you want to vote.
Jan 2, 2016
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#5
I believe there's some kind motto that goes "once rated, always rated"
No, you don't lose anything :) They'll just want to collect some $$ before you can enter a tournament.
Ziryab wrote:
I let mine expire for three months a year ago. Now, I must renew when its is time because I rejoined just before a tournament that I prefer never to miss.
You do not lose anything except a couple of issues of the magazine, which no one reads anyway. You also need to reregister if you want to vote.
So I literally have nothing to worry about if I just renew it tonight or whatever? It's like I never let it expire?
0110001101101000 wrote:
I believe there's some kind motto that goes "once rated, always rated"
No, you don't lose anything :) They'll just want to collect some $$ before you can enter a tournament.
Cool...I got it. Same member #, too?
Jan 2, 2016
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#8
Same here, I renewed online about an hour before a tourney in the hotel lobby once. It all worked out.
Yeah, you keep your number.
Jan 2, 2016
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#9
Ziryab wrote:
You do not lose anything except a couple of issues of the magazine, which no one reads anyway.
I'm curious as to why you don't like the magazine.
0110001101101000 wrote:
Same here, I renewed online about an hour before a tourney in the hotel lobby once. It all worked out.
Yeah, you keep your number.
Awesome. Thank you again.
ChrisWainscott wrote:
Ziryab wrote:
You do not lose anything except a couple of issues of the magazine, which no one reads anyway.
I'm curious as to why you don't like the magazine.
I think it's interesting enough, too.
Jan 2, 2016
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#12
I let my membership expire for 19 years...came back to the same number and same rating.
Jan 2, 2016
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ChrisWainscott wrote:
Ziryab wrote:
You do not lose anything except a couple of issues of the magazine, which no one reads anyway.
I'm curious as to why you don't like the magazine.
I like the magazine. But when it arrives, most of the news is something that I read several months ago. Recent exceptions include the issue with Walter Browne on the cover and the issue with an article about Kenneth Regan.
That's two good articles in one year.
ChrisWainscott wrote:
I let my membership expire for 19 years...came back to the same number and same rating.
Haha, really? Cool...
Jan 2, 2016
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Warbringer33 wrote:
ChrisWainscott wrote:
I let my membership expire for 19 years...came back to the same number and same rating.
Haha, really? Cool...
Mine was expired for fourteen and they had no records of my previous existence. I rejoined in 1995. Mine has expired several times since. Last year's three month gap was the longest in the past twenty years.
Jan 2, 2016
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Ziryab wrote:
Recent exceptions include the issue with Walter Browne on the cover and the issue with an article about Kenneth Regan.
That's two good articles in one year.
I thought the Second Golden Age of American Chess article was OK. lol
Jan 2, 2016
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Ziryab wrote:
Mine was expired for fourteen and they had no records of my previous existence. I rejoined in 1995. Mine has expired several times since. Last year's three month gap was the longest in the past twenty years.
It was just a weird flukey thing that I happened to remember my membership number for all those years.
Jan 2, 2016
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#19
I lost mine for about a month without knowing and went to a tournament. I paid like 50 dollars for 2 years on the site and everything was good for me.
I got busy around the New Year and had to go out of town on short notice. I let my USCF membership expire after December 31st. What happens now? Do I lose my ratings? What if I just go and purchase the membership again? Will they activate my old member # and just pick up where I left off or will I be assigned a new member #?
Thanks