What options do I have for extending my stay in Thailand after my 45-day visa expires?

Okay you're on a free 45 day visa exempt entry that you got from a land crossing when you did a border bounce,

You can extend that ONE time for 30 days at the immigration office where you stay for 1900baht then you're done.

You aren't gonna get those covid extensions out of your passport and when you come back by air even if you're gone a month they'll probably pull you aside.

In Chiang Mai the closest border to bounce out and back at is the Chiang Khong / Huay Xai border with Lao in Chiang Rai province about 5 hours away.

As I said in the other comment you can get TWO free visa exempt entries in a calendar year. So you got one more you can pull this year by bouncing out and back and then once the year rolls over you got two more 🙂

May I suggest you read this post of Tod Daniels... it's important for you.

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Depends on your passport.

I doubt you're from one of the 17 countries that BUY a Visa On Arrival when you show up here for 2000baht 😕 I think you're actually talking about a "visa exempt entry" <- where you show up without a visa and get stamped in free because of the country you come from 😉

I'd say your best option is to bounce out and back by land to get a new 45 day visa exempt entry, take the 30 day extension on that, then before the end of the year bounce one more time to get a new 45 day visa exempt entry (which means you used BOTH of the visa exempt entries by land this year) get a 30 day extension on that too.

Then next year (Jan 1) the count resets and you can get TWO more visa exempt entries. If you play the dates right you can get FOUR visa exempt entries (2 this year, 2 next) and the 30 day extensions.

You run a far higher risk of being questioned, and/or denied entry doing those bounces by air than you do bouncing by land.

To get the right advice read this post first

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