Updated with new headline and comment from Martin Reisch at 2:10 PM PST.

Earlier this morning, reports that a Canadian gentleman passed through U.S. customs using nothing but an image of his passport on his iPad 2 started circling the Internet.

“Great Scott! Nothing but an iPad!” you say. “How tremendously forward-thinking of our government officials!”

But, alas, according to U.S. customs, the story being circulated doesn’t share the whole picture of the incident. You cannot enter the U.S. using a scanned image of your passport on a mobile device.

The original article, reported by the Canadian...