Angelina Jolie avoided the media Monday on her way from the airport at
Hanoi to the US Embassy where she will complete the visa procedures necessary to
take her adopted son Pax Thien Jolie to his new home in America.
The 31-year-old actress arrived after flying from Ho Chi Minh City, where she
adopted the newest member of her family at an orphanage on the outskirts of the
city last week.
Jolie was expected to meet with US Embassy officials yesterday. Once the visa
is issued, she can take him to the United States. She was expected to leave
Hanoi today.
Jolie's oldest child, 5-year-old Maddox, who was adopted from Cambodia, came
with her to Vietnam. She also has two daughters: Zahara, 2, who was adopted from
Ethiopia, and 9-month-old, Shiloh, who was born to Jolie and her partner, Brad
Pitt, in May.
Ever since she was young she has wanted to adopt children, Jolie said in an
interview published Friday in a Vietnamese newspaper.
"Everyone would agree that children need to have a family," the paper quoted
the Oscar-winning actress as saying. "I have the ability to help children
fulfill that desire. Why should I say no?"
