{"id":21175,"date":"2025-07-25T13:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/21175\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T13:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:16:09","slug":"nicole-kidman-and-keith-urban-planning-to-acquire-portuguese-residency-but-will-retain-nashville-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/21175\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban planning to acquire Portuguese residency but will retain Nashville home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are moving ahead with plans to acquire residency in Portugal but will keep Nashville as their primary base, a source close to the stars has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Portuguese media outlet SIC Not\u00edcias initially broke the story on Tuesday and claimed the Oscar-winning actress has <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/lifestyle\/celebrity-life\/nicole-kidman-reportedly-files-residency-application-for-portugal-with-no-mention-of-husband-keith-urban\/news-story\/f3451cbe7f6325f94fb9c83cd5fb89e9\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"f3451cbe7f6325f94fb9c83cd5fb89e9\" data-tgev-label=\"lifestyle\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">submitted residency paperwork to the country&#8217;s Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to SIC Not\u00edcias, Kidman was recently house hunting around the Costa Terra Golf &amp; Ocean Club in Comporta while taking a break from shooting Practical Magic 2 in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Costa Terra is popular with global A-listers including George Clooney and Paris Hilton and is also a base for royal family member Princess Eugenie.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood Kidman, 58, and Urban, 57, already own an apartment in Lisbon\u2019s ritzy Parque das Na\u00e7\u00f5es district.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports suggested Urban did not accompany his wife and their two daughters to the visa appointment.<\/p>\n<p>However, a source close to the Oscar-winning actress told SkyNews.com.au that Urban was unable to join his family due to his tour schedule and will also have an appointment at the visa office. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeith is scheduled to have an appointment at the visa office at a later date as his tour schedule conflicted with the date that Nicole and their daughters were able to secure while Nicole is currently shooting Practical Magic 2 in the UK,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>SkyNews.com.au understands applicants must be physically present to apply for a residency visa in Portugal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The source also clarified that the family will continue to be based \u201cprimarily\u201d in Nashville but are eager to spend more time in Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeith, Nicole and the girls will continue to live primarily in Nashville however they do own property in Portugal,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>The sunny European nation is popular with celebrities and jetsetters because of its ideal climate, favourable tax benefits and relative privacy.<\/p>\n<p>The Dead Calm star and her country star husband own an impressive globe-spanning property portfolio spanning Sydney, Los Angeles, New York and Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>The family\u2019s main home is a sprawling 20-room mansion in Nashville that the stars acquired in 2008, two years after their fairytale wedding.<\/p>\n<p>In Sydney, the couple own six combined apartments overlooking Sydney Harbour in tony Milson\u2019s Point where they often host New Year\u2019s Eve parties.<\/p>\n<p>The Kidman-Urban clan also own a breathtaking 45-acre rural property called Bunya Hill in the Southern Highlands, complete with cattle and alpacas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are moving ahead with plans to acquire residency in Portugal but will keep&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,2899,7438,7722],"class_list":["post-21175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-keith-urban","tag-nicole-kidman","tag-portugal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}