Former chess world champion Bobby Fischer has been offered a new home in the Nordic country of Iceland, but it remains unclear if he will be able to travel there from Japan, where he is currently being detained. Iceland's authorities have extended a residency permit to Fischer, who is fighting deportation to the United States, which may pave the way for him to leave Japan after almost six months in detention. Fischer, 61, is wanted in the US for violating economic sanctions against Yugoslavia by playing a chess game there in 1992. Born to a Jewish mother, he also stirred controversy with repeated anti-Semitic remarks. He has been held in Japan after been stopped with a passport that US officials said was invalid. An official at Iceland's embassy in Tokyo said that a diplomat planned to visit Fischer and give him the permit. Japanese authorities had ordered Fischer to be deported to the United States, but a court granted an injunction in September until it ruled on a lawsuit seeking to have the order quashed.