Vietnamese authorities have speeded up Angelina Jolie's adoption of a Vietnamese boy and the Hollywood star could be able to take him home by next month, the country's top adoption official said on Wednesday.
The child Angelina Jolie plans to adopt in Vietnam is a 3 year old little boy. If the adoption goes through, it means the Hollywood star will have four children - two boys and two girls.
It is said that Jolie, 31, and her partner Brad Pitt chose him during a visit to an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City.The youngster, who is three, is expected to join his new family in the US after completing the formalities of adoption.
While a Justice Ministry spokesman said it normally takes four months to complete the adoption, Vietnamese authorities have speed-ed up the process to make him reach US in a shorter time
As per Vu Duc Long who is the director of the Justice Ministry’s International Adoption department has announced that the communist –run southeast Asian country had approved most of the papers and most of the process was completed in Hanoi but waiting for relevant authorities in Ho Chi Minh City to finish up with the remaining documents.
As per Vietnamese law, unmarried couple may not adopt a child. Keeping this in mind, Jolie had filed the papers with out her partner Brad Pitt.
The boy is expected to leave for the US in April though earlier it was announced as three months.
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 aged between 3 and 4 years from the Tam Binh orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City. But on Wednesday, he declined to confirm the details, adding: "We have been asked to keep the boy's details confidential".
Jolie and Pitt visited Ho Chi Minh City last November and met children at the orphanage. They have one biological child, Shiloh Nouvel who was born last year, and two adoptive children -- son Maddox from Cambodia and daughter Zahara from Ethiopia.
Jolie and Pitt, who starred in the 2005 movie "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", have said they have no plans to marry but are committed to raising their children together. They are also working together on the film "A Mighty Heart" about the killing of a U.S. journalist by Pakistani militants.
Jolie won an Oscar in 1999 for best supporting actress in "Girl, Interrupted". She starred in the 2001 movie "Tomb Raider" which was filmed in Cambodia, neighbouring Vietnam.
