What Brazilian Clients Delegate to a Personal Assistant in Paris: Apostilles, the 90-Day Rule, CPAM and a Second Home Run Properly

Many Brazilian families we support live in two cities: São Paulo or Rio most of the year, Paris for a season, a semester or a summer. The Paris side looks simple until it is not: the residence has a syndic, a tax return, insurance and a boiler; the children have a school interview; a parent needs a specialist; and every counter wants a document that exists only in Portuguese.

With Brazil four to five hours behind Paris, the working overlap is a few hours a day. The families who enjoy Paris rather than administer it delegate the following five files.

Brazilian nationals do not need a visa for short stays in the Schengen area, but the rule is 90 days in any 180 — counted across all Schengen countries, not just France. A Paris spring plus a summer in Italy can quietly become an overstay. We keep the count, plan the season around it and, when the family wants more, prepare the long-stay visa file instead.

Birth certificates, marriage certificates, diplomas, criminal records, proof of income: France asks for them apostilled in Brazil and translated by a traducteur assermenté in France — the right kind of translator, or the document is refused. We tell you exactly which documents to have apostilled before you leave, then handle the sworn translations and keep a clean digital file so nothing is requested twice.

For a year of schooling, a posting or a longer presence, the VLS-TS long-stay visa is obtained in Brazil and validated with the OFII after arrival; the CPAM registration follows, with the apostilled birth certificate and its translation. Deadlines, appointments, follow-ups and the inevitable request for one more document — carried by us, reported to you.

Paris has a strong network of Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking GPs, paediatricians, specialists and dentists, and the Brazilian community knows who they are. We book them with the right introduction, organise specialist consultations and medical stays end to end, and hold the healthcare file for the whole family.

A residence that is lived in for three months and empty for nine still has a syndic, a taxe foncière, insurance renewals, utilities and the occasional leak. We are the local contact: mail opened and handled, works supervised, artisans vetted before the emergency, the home ready — heated, stocked, staffed — the day the family lands. And the season itself: tables, drivers, tickets, the children's activities, arranged for the quarter.

One WhatsApp conversation from São Paulo, Rio or Brasília, in English or French — Portuguese-speaking contacts on request — six weeks before the season. A written plan within 48 hours: documents to apostille, the 90-day count, the appointments, the residence checklist. Then a single weekly message while you are in Paris, and a quiet monthly one while you are not. Open every day, 8:00 to 20:00 Paris time — 24/7 for members. You ask. We handle it.