<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by best:
Please forgive if this is a naive question: When you qualify for Diamond--is that for the next 12 months, following calendar year, or for ever? </font>
Once status is earned, benefits are for the rest of the current calendar year and the calendar year after that. i.e. if you earned diamond today, your diamond benefits would be for the rest of '02, and all of '03.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Do you have to keep qualifying each year to keep it?</font>
as Eugene said "Normally, yes."