SailingSam17

For peace of mind, just renew. Here is a decent site that explains the various options for renewall and typical turnaround times:

https://www.howtogetapassport.org/passport-processing-time-frames.html

"We are worried about the Israeli visa, which is required for Indian nationals with Indian passports, residing in India. We would prefer not to apply for the Israel visa."

Why not just get the Israeli visa? Sure sounds complicated but I think one of the online visa services could probably handle it. I used http://www.itseasy.com for an e-visa for India and it was pretty straight forwrd. Good luck!

Seems that you have plenty of time to renew, may as well just go for it!

Do you really have to fly to NYC to get a visa for China? Couldn’t you just use an online service? My sister-in-law used http://itseasy.com for a trip that required multiple visas and she seemed happy enough. Gotta be cheaper than flying to NYC?:confused: