Chapter 3 investigates the role of identity documents, visas and residency permits in the production and governing of migrant irregularity. The chapter sets out by tracing the trajectoriestrajectories of Kemal, Camil and Ania, illustrating how my interlocutors had been irregularized at the intersection of particular historical events, shifts in migratory regimes, personal histories and timing. Looking into practices of queuingqueuequeuing for, issuing and forging papers, I analyse documents as temporal technologies through which migrants are governed and govern themselves by developing ‘documentary habits’ and assembling ‘personal archivesdocumentation’. These technologies are circumvented and appropriated as migrants struggle to avoid the consequences that lacking documents entails.