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Angelina Adoption Fast-Tracked
Good things don't always come to those who wait. Sometimes good things come to those who breeze through the entire process.
According to one of Vietnam's top adoption officials, Angelina Jolie's adoption application is being processed with such haste—by the books haste, that is—that the star could be united with her chosen son within a few weeks.
Vu Duc Long, the media-friendly director of Vietnam's International Adoption Department, told the Associated Press Tuesday that Jolie will in all likelihood be able to pick up her three-and-a-half-year-old son by the end of the month.
Ho Chi Minh City officials are currently in the process of reviewing Jolie's single-mother application for the boy, whom she met and selected during a trip to the capital city's Tam Binh orphanage last November.
According to Long, Jolie will be able to pick up the boy, described by Tam Binh director Nguyen Van Trung as being both "in good health" and "a little bit shy," any time after her application is approved.
Trung told the AP that the boy, whose name has not been released, gets along well with the other children at the orphanage, where he was brought as a baby after being found abandoned at a Ho Chi Minh City hospital, and that he loves playing soccer.
Which already sounds a perfect fit for would-be papa Brad Pitt, who quipped to E! News' Ryan Seacrest at the Golden Globes that he and Jolie would stop adopting kids when they had enough to field their own soccer team.
While Jolie filed for adoption as a single parent, the paperwork is merely a technicality and will likely be amended, postadoption, to include Pitt—much like the couple did with fellow adoptive children Maddox, five, and Zahara, two.
Vietnamese law prohibits unmarried couples from adopting, limiting the scope of their prospective parents to either "one single person or one married couple."
As for the new sibling, who will be the duo's fourth child but falls just below five-year-old Maddox in the age hierarchy (Shiloh brings up the rear at just 10 months), his adoption took less time than most—four months is the typical wait in Vietnam—due to both his advanced age of almost four years, as well as the fact that his file was nearly completed prior to Jolie's decision to adopt, per Trung.
While the entire process kicked off months ago, it was only two weeks ago that Long revealed Jolie had filed an application for adoption. Last week, he let slip that the child would be a boy.
And, lest the latest celebrity adoption prompt a Madonna-like wave of controversy, Trung told the AP that the Tam Binh staff had tried, and failed, to find the boy's birth parents.
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