A New Day For Border Crossing?

Last week, a traveler from Montreal, Martin Reisch, got to the U.S. border and realized he'd forgotten his passport at home, two hours away. The border officer allowed Reisch to use a scanned copy of his passport that was on his iPad and come through from Quebec. He was attempting to deliver Christmas presents to a friend's kids, and that information, coupled with the passport and his driver's license were enough for the officer to make an exception. Reisch also successfully used the scanned passport later in the day to get through Canadian customs. Currently, U.S. Customes and Border Protection doesn't allow for scans and photocopies, but the digital revolution can't be that far off.