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Brangelina to Adopt a Boy from Vietnam
Friday March 2, 2007

The couple in Ho Chi Minh city, Nov. 23, 2006.
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As Us Weekly first reported, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are in the process of adopting a child from Vietnam.

"Yes, they have started the procedure to adopt a child in Vietnam," Vu Duc Long, director of Vietnam's International Adoption Agency, confirms to Us Weekly.

Last week sources told Us that Jolie, 31, and Pitt, 43, had filed paperwork with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to adopt a boy from the country, reportedly around 3 or 4 years of age.

However, the Mr. & Mrs. Smith costars have a way to go before the adoption process is complete.

"They have to follow all the procedures like any other American," Long tells Us. "They will have to work with the American side. No priority will be given to them, that means they will be treated equally as any other people."

Indeed, Jolie has discussed the adoption red tape with CNN's Larry King. "I'm fingerprinted, I'm checked," she said. "I go through everything to prove I'm a decent citizen, I'm a good human being."

Long did not name the U.S. adoption agency working with Jolie, who applied to adopt as a single parent.

The couple visited Vietnam last Thanksgiving, and toured the Tam Binh orphanage on the edge of Ho Chi Minh City.

Jolie, 31, has said in the past that her intent is to have a multi-racial family. She and Pitt, 43, already have a 5-year-old Cambodian son, Maddox, and a 2-year-old Ethiopian daughter named Zahara (or “Z” for short). Daughter Shiloh, 9 months, has citizenships from both America and Namibia, the southern African country where she was born.

“Next, we’ll adopt,” Jolie told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in an interview last June. “We don’t know [from] which country. It’s gonna be the balance of what would be best for Mad and for Z right now. It’s, you know, another boy, another girl, which country, which race would fit in best with the kids.”

Alejandro González Iñárritu, who directed Pitt in Babel, already sends his best wishes to the parents. "[Brad] and Angelina are very down to earth people," he recently told Us. "It is great they are adopting more kids. They are a great couple. They are doing what they need to do."

Pitt’s rep has no comment.

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