Man enters US without passport - thanks to his iPad

Key -
Question 1
a) False. Martin Reisch was a half hour from the border when he decided to try to gain entry rather than turn back and make a two-hour trek back home to Montreal to fetch his passport.
b) False. the officer seemed mildly annoyed when he handed him the iPad. "I thought I'd at least give it a try," Mr Reisch said. "He took the iPad into the border hut. He was in there a five or six minutes
c) False. Mr Reisch, 33, said he took a scanned photo of his passport years ago
d) True. He said he also successfully used the passport on his iPad to get through Canadian Customs on the way home later that day.

Question 2
a) Mr Reisch was travelling to the USA to deliver Christmas gifts to his friend’s children.
b) Martin Reisch hope that in the future, personal identification for travellers will be accepted in digital format, in a similar way to air companies accepting electronic boarding passes.

Question 3
a) (a) trek
b) (a) hut
c) (a) device

Question 4
a) If the US immigration officer had not accepted the scan of Mr Reisch’s passport, he would have had to go back to fetch his passport.
b) US Customs and Border Protection said: “We only accept a passport, an enhanced driver’s licence or a Nexus pass from Canadian citizens who enter at land crossings. The list does not mention facsimiles, like scans and photocopies.”
c) Since 2009, Canadians have needed more than a driver’s licence for identification for US land border crossings.