Jolie arrives in Vietnam to adopt child
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Reports of Angelina Jolie and partner Brad Pitt's intentions to adopt a Vietnamese boy now appear to be truth as Jolie and son Maddox arrived in Vietnam today to collect the new addition.
The Vietnamese boy, described by officials as a healthy three to four year-old, would be the fourth child for the movie star family.
All they need now is a signature from the vice mayor of Ho Chi Minh City to give the final approval," said Vietnam's top adoption official, Vu Duc Long, who is director of the International Adoption Department.
Sources said Jolie would attend a "giving and receiving" ceremony with Vietnamese officials in the southern city. The US consulate would issue the child a passport to travel to the United States.
Its alleged that Jolie, 31, filed adoption papers in early March through an unidentified American agency without her partner Brad Pitt because under Vietnamese law, an unmarried couple may not adopt a child. Single people may adopt children under the law.
In Vietnam, adoptions have been known to take as little as one month if background checks and issues of whether the adopting family can support a child are quickly resolved. However, the process can take six months or longer in some cases.
Long had said the child was a boy from the Tam Binh orphanage in the city of eight million people, Vietnam's largest urban area. He has been in the orphanage since 2003.
Jolie and Pitt have one biological child and two adopted children at present.
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