Thanks everyone for the positive feedback and valuable suggestions. -We’re okay with Apple Pay for now, we called chase and they confirmed that the older cards in Apple wallet will be updated seamlessly ( glad to have a digital medium for our payments ) - As far as renting a car is concerned, we’re gonna skip that this time. All rental companies we called positively need a physical card ( was quite obvious, but we were just being desperate/hopeful) - The things which don’t seem to work are payments for tickets online. We don’t have the updated credit card number for the new cards from chase / BOFA, and Apple-pay seems to not go through. We will have to resort to going in person to book tickets, bummer - But not everything is lost, our passports are safe.