Passports are today a normalised document that individuals in Western societies rarely question. The passport is the most determining document that shapes and limits our rights to international mobility as humans. This document rose as the central document of the modern global mobility regime. Passports have been studied in the European and Western contexts. However, its imposition in the rest of the world through the colonial enterprise has rarely been studied This is even more the case for the Maghreb where no study has been realised on the passport. Due to the highly racialised nature of passport/visa regimes, the passport and the mobility, or rather immobility, implications the document materialises are most felt in these (post)colonised societies, including the Maghreb. Thereby, passports occupy a central place in how many in (post)colonised societies imagine and perceive international mobility. Studying the passport in (post)colonial settings becomes a crucial endeavour in order to understand global (im)mobilities. In this context, an important part of studying this document is understanding its imposition through the colonial endeavour. This research proposes to look into the specific case of the Moroccan Sharifian passport. This document was put in place by the French authorities in Morocco in 1931 and remained crucial throughout the colonial period in Morocco which ended in 1956. In this research, I will explore along the following questions: How could we grasp the stakes of (im)mobility and identification in a colonial situation through this one document? how did the categories of race, gender, and class shape this document? What could this tell us about the (post)colonial present passport/visa regimes? In exploring these questions, I will use archival material collected in the Diplomatic archives in Nantes, the Historical Services of the Defence Ministry, the French National Archives, and the Spanish Archivo General de la Administracion, among other sites.