What Chinese Clients Delegate to a Personal Assistant in Paris: Visas, the Maisons, Doctors and a Time Zone That Never Aligns

When Shanghai finishes lunch, Paris has not opened. When Paris closes its counters, Beijing is asleep. A French file that needs three phone calls and a document takes a Chinese client living on China time two to three weeks — not because it is hard, but because the windows never overlap.

The Chinese clients we support solved this by delegating the execution: they decide, on their time; we act, on Paris time; they receive a written summary on WeChat when they wake. Below are the five files they hand over most often.

Chinese nationals need a Schengen visa for short stays and a long-stay visa (VLS-TS) for anything beyond 90 days — student, employee, talent, visitor or family categories. French consulates in China are precise about documents: itinerary, accommodation, insurance, financial proof, invitation letters where relevant, all translated correctly. We prepare the dossier and the supporting documents from the Paris side — including invitation letters and confirmed bookings — so the appointment in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou or Chengdu is a formality.

Paris is the home of the houses our Chinese clients know best, and the boutiques on the rue Saint-Honoré and avenue Montaigne are busiest precisely when everyone arrives. A private appointment with a client advisor, a preview of the season, a made-to-order piece followed up — arranged in advance, with the détaxe (VAT refund) paperwork done properly and validated at the airport without a queue. Discretion is total; your name is mentioned only where you want it.

Paris has excellent Mandarin- and Cantonese-speaking GPs, specialists and dentists, and world-class hospitals for medical stays. We book the consultations, translate what needs translating, organise hospital stays end to end — admission, accommodation, driver, interpreter — and, for long-stay residents, run the CPAM registration and carte Vitale file.

Whether a bilingual primary school in the 16th, an international lycée or a grande école application, the file is the same: target list, translated records, applications in sequence, interviews scheduled around a Chinese calendar, follow-ups that do not stop, and a Parisian guardian contact for a student far from home. You attend the interviews; we handle everything around them.

A French bank account for a non-resident Chinese client requires the right bank, the right branch and a complete dossier — source-of-funds documentation included — prepared once and properly. For residents: OFII validation, titre de séjour renewals through ANEF, impôts, insurance, the syndic. Filed, followed up, closed, and reported to you in one message.

One conversation on WeChat or WhatsApp, in English or with a Mandarin-speaking contact on request, four to eight weeks before arrival. A written plan within 48 hours. Visa documents, appointments and the arrival itinerary ready before the flight. Once in Paris, a single point of contact for everything, every day, 8:00 to 20:00 Paris time — and 24/7 for members. You ask. We handle it.