METV (from your home country)will give you 9 months if timed correctly & extended. following up with a SETV from a neighbouring country extended will give you 12 months stay.
Virtually every twat there all using an ‘agent’ to provide accommodation & forwarding tickets & having to slip 200bht in their passport at immigration as proof of funds. My observations. If your a legitimate Tourist you can obtain a TV anywhere.
You choose possibly the worst border crossing in Thailand, you didn’t have the required 20k in bht or slip 200bht in your passport & you wonder why you got ‘red stamped’. The amount of time you’ve been here I would have thought some research as to lawful requirements would have seen you walk through.