Can I use my Covid/Amnesty visa for reentry into Thailand or should I apply for a multi-entry visa instead?

Even if you don't get any visa in the USA, you will be stamped for 30days on a visa-exempt scheme entering Thailand on 12th Jan, longer than the rest of your current covid extension.

Why even bother to think about re-entry on that...

I'd say your best bet would be get a 6 month METV (your posting history shows you had that before) from the thai consulate in the US using the online evisa system.

That visa (at least in theory) will buy you almost 9 months of stay by bouncing out and in.

Hopefully with the new year the nearby countries will open the land borders making bouncing out and back easier OR at least you can fly out and back to countries that are open as long as you meet the entry requirements to get in the country you're bouncing to and then back in to thailand when you return. 🙂

At this time with the thousands of people here on covid extensions there are exactly ZERO reports of ANYONE who is on a covid extension being able to get a re-entry permit, leave and come back on it.

Keep in mind you get covid extensions based on "inability to travel" SO you leaving and wanting to come back kinda negates the reason for you to have a covid extension dontcha think?

For the new visa, easy way is a new Single Entry Non Immigrant B visa, get the 90 days on entry and then apply for the 1 year Extension of Stay at Immigration. No border runs and stress of where to go.

Keep in mind the covid extension is NOT a visa. It's a concessional extension designed to tide you over until you are able to leave. As Benjamin has said, once you leave, its purpose is served

> Can I get the reentry permit before I leave and then get back into Thailand on my original Covid/amnesty visa?

A person receives a 60 day extension of stay based on unable to travel due to COVID-19 because they are unable to travel due to COVID-19. If you are able to travel due to COVID-19, then the extension of stay becomes void when you leave.

>2) Can I get the multi entry visa in the USA and then do a border hop with it like pre Covid times?

Is this a multiple entry tourist (METV) visa? If the borders are reopen, and the Thai consulate sells the METV, then yes.

>if I can get the multi entry visa, then will they force me to use that when I enter Thailand and not allow me to continue on my previous visa?

From your post, you do not have a visa; you have a 60 day extension of stay based on unable to travel due to COVID-19. If you acquire a multiple entry tourist visa, the 60 day extension of stay based on unable to travel due to COVID-19 is automatically voided, and you will enter on the multiple entry tourist visa.

Remember, on a 6 month multiple entry tourist visa, you are stamped into Thailand for 59 days on each entry, and you can get ONE 30 day extension of stay based on tourism.