Angelina Jolie applies to adopt Vietnamese orphan

Actress Angelina Jolie arrives at the 64th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills January 15, 2007. Jolie has applied to adopt a Vietnamese child, state media reported on Saturday.

HANOI (Reuters) - Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie has applied to adopt a Vietnamese child, a top Vietnamese adoption official said on Saturday.

"She has made an application to adopt a boy aged between 3 and 4 years old and her paperwork will be processed according to the regulations like everyone else," Vu Duc Long, director of the Ministry of Justice's International Adoption Department, told Reuters.

Long said the boy Jolie wanted to adopt lives in Tam Binh orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City. He did not give further details.

"Normally it takes about four months to process an adoption request but if she has found the child, it could take much less," he said.

Jolie filed her application through an American adoption agency a few days ago, state media reported.

Jolie and Brad Pitt made a surprise visit to Ho Chi Minh City last November during which they also went to the orphanage to meet children there.