Amazing Couple

Jolie due to adopt Viet boy today

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Angelina Jolie was expected to arrive in Vietnam late Wednesday night to adopt a three-year-old boy, officials said.

Jolie was expected to attend an adoption ceremony with Vietnamese officials in Ho Chi Minh City this morning, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

After she receives the child, Jolie will meet US consular officials, who must review the adoption before a passport can be issued for the boy.

If all goes according to plan, Jolie could bring the child home by the weekend.

The boy has been living at the Tam Binh orphanage on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City since he was abandoned at a hospital as an infant, according to adoption officials.

The boy is healthy, friendly and a little bit shy, they said.

He gets along well with other children and loves to play soccer.

Jolie filed adoption papers as a single parent, because she and her superstar partner Brad Pitt are not married.

The couple have three children: five- year-old Maddox, adopted from Cambodia; two-year-old Zahara, adopted from Ethiopia; and another daughter, Shiloh, who was born to the couple in May.

The pair made a surprise visit to the Tam Binh orphanage at Thanksgiving, when they were seen cruising around Ho Chi Minh City on a motorbike.

Jolie is a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and has traveled extensively to countries in the developing world.

Jolie's security team arrived in Ho Chi Minh City earlier Wednesday to lay the groundwork for the star's arrival, adoption officials said.

After the adoption of Jolie's newest child is complete, she is expected to visit the Tam Binh orphanage to play with the children who live there.

Jolie adopted her first child, Maddox, in 2002. Zahara joined the family in 2005.

The new boy's name has not been revealed.