Originally Posted by
link2110
You could always book a fully refundable (either on points or cash) flight for ~90 days out from when you plan to enter the country, and then just cancel that when you secure your points flight out.
Ive thought about that and have also spoken to a few "digital nomad" friends who say when they run into these sort of problems they use a company called onewayfly that'll "book" them a ticket to be able to show the return/exit. I'd never heard of them before.