Child was recommended to Angelina Jolie · 2007-03-14 17:18
Film star Angelina Jolie could soon be taking home a three-year-old Vietnamese boy after the country's authorities speeded up the adoption process.
Vu Duc Long, head of the country's international adoption department, said just the final pieces of paperwork had yet to be processed.
He originally said the adoption could take up to three months to go through official channels.
Jolie has already adopted two children and has another with partner Brad Pitt.
The actors spent last November's Thanksgiving holiday at an orphanage near Ho Chi Minh City playing with the children.
Jolie, 31, filed adoption papers without Pitt because under Vietnamese law unmarried couples may not adopt children, BBC informs.
Vu Duc Long had previously said the child was a boy aged between three and four years from the Tam Binh orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City.
The director of a related orphanage told the Associated Press that Jolie and Pitt had not chosen the child themselves.
"The child was recommended by us, just like any other adoption case," said Nguyen Van Trung, director of the Tam Binh 2 orphanage.
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