why not fly to Cambodia "for or Vietman for example", stay there for a while. come back to Thailand if/when you want, do visa exempt :if you are eligible".

4 hours ago, Trvlr55 said:

why not fly to Cambodia "for or Vietman for example", stay there for a while. come back to Thailand if/when you want, do visa exempt :if you are eligible".

This is akin to (in normal times) having a certificate from a doctor to the effect that you are seriously ill and not fit to fly back to your home country. The immigration official turns around and says you are quite fit enough to travel by ambulance to the border, and leave Thailand by land. That might be technically true, but it is unreasonable.

 

Similarly, in the spirit of the Covid extensions, a genuine inability to return to your home country ought to be sufficient to qualify. The intention was never that you be able to prove, not only that you could not return to your home country, but there was no other country that would allow you to enter. Assuming the OP is truthful about his current situation, he ought to qualify for the extension.

Wish I could have replied earlier, but getting the covid extension in phuket is very simple. You pick up your passport the day after you apply.