Adoptions in Vietnam can often take up to six months, and Vu Duc Long had originally said the adoption could take up to three months to go through the necessary official channels.
Angelina Jolie, 31, had filed adoption papers without partner actor Brad Pitt because under Vietnamese law unmarried couples are not allowed to adopt children.
Nguyen Van Trung, director of the Tam Binh 2 orphanage described the little boy Angelina Jolie is adopting as follows: "He is three and a half years old. He is in good health. He is a little bit shy."
