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Angelina Jolie in Vietnam

by Sherry on March 14th, 2007

The AP is reporting that Angelina Jolie was being expected to arrive in Vietnam Wednesday night and will attend a special adoption ceremony on Thursday morning. After she has permission to receive the three year old boy, she has to meet with US consular officials who will have to review the adoption and then issue a passport for her new son.

If it all goes smoothly, the newest Jolie-Pitt (well, just Jolie for now) will be home in the US by the weekend.

According to the article:

Jolie’s security team had 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, adoption officials said.

The article also explains some of the history of Vietnamese adoptions in the US:

Vietnam suspended its adoption programs for several years due to concerns that children were being trafficked and exploited. After the government implemented new regulations to address those concerns, the United States and Vietnam signed a new adoption agreement in 2005.

U.S. adoptions resumed last year, and since then a growing number of Americans have been coming to Vietnam for children. More than 450 U.S. adoptions have been processed since January 2006.

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