Angelina Jolie: adoption will be completed within weeks

Angelina Jolie’s adoption of a Vietnamese boy will be completed by the end of the month, according to an official in the country.

Vu Duc Long, the director of the country’s International Adoption Department, told the Associated Press earlier today that the paperwork should be finished by 31 March at the latest and Angelina will be free to collect the child at any time after that.

The director of the Tam Binh orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Nguyen Van Trung, has released some details about the three-and-a-half year old boy. The child was abandoned at a local hospital as an infant and taken to the orphanage after the hospital were unable to find his parents.

Trung added that the boy likes playing soccer and “is in good health. He is a little bit shy.”

Angelina reportedly began the adoption procedure shortly after the birth of her daughter Shiloh last May but as had to apply as a single parent instead of with partner Brad Pitt as Vietnamese law makes it difficult for unmarried couples to adopt.

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Great. Now there’ll be three little ethnic kids to beat the c**p out of poor Shiloh.

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Crabbie, that was a very unneccessary comment. I have to say, she does seem to be getting very extra special treatment, I wonder why! It notmally takes four months from when everythings been finalised (in Vietnam), hers was taking 3 months as she had already ‘picked’ the child, now all of a sudden its taking a month, after which she could go and ‘collect’ the child whenever she pleases. Good on Angie for adopting and all that, and being an African myself I truly laud her efforts, but it seems she is letting these silly vietnames officials, through her, to treat these kids as commodities. The fact that we’re not american, european or from a western country does not mean we or our little ones are of any lesser value. This is not an Angie dig, its aimed at the officials in these countries, who upon seeing a foreigner, more especially a white one, and to top it off a wealthy hollywood celeb, they see $$$$$. I heard Angie promised them $2 million dollars if she was able to adopt. Hopefully she comes through with that but should give it directly to the orphanage AND NOT THE GOVERNMENT, ‘cuz they will just spend the money. I’d know.

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