Jolie expected in Vietnam to adopt three-year-old boy

US actress Angelina Jolie is expected to arrive in Vietnam later today to adopt a three-year-old boy, adoption officials said.

Ms Jolie is expected to attend an adoption ceremony with Vietnamese officials in Ho Chi Minh City tomorrow morning.

After she receives the child, Ms Jolie will meet with 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 take the child home by the weekend, officials said.

The boy was abandoned at a Ho Chi Minh City hospital as a baby and then taken to the nearby Tam Binh orphanage, where he has lived ever since, said Nguyen Van Trung, the orphanage director.

Shortly after he arrived at the orphanage, the Tam Binh staff tried unsuccessfully to locate the boy’s birth parents.

The adoption is being processed quickly because the boy is an older child, and his files were nearly complete before Jolie decided to adopt, Trung said.

Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt 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.