 Jolie is expected to fly back to the United States on Wednesday |
Actress Angelina Jolie has arrived in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi to obtain the visa that will let her take her new adopted son home to the US. Three-year-old Pax Thien - who is Jolie's fourth child - had been living in an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City.
US agency Adoptions From The Heart has rebutted a claim by a Vietnamese official that she was "fast-tracked" to complete her application more quickly.
"She received no preferential treatment," the organisation insisted.
'Move faster'
The country's senior adoption official, Vu Duc Long, suggested 10 days ago that the process could "move faster" because Jolie was "a celebrity and she has already found a child".
Generally it can take about six months to complete an adoption in Vietnam.
 Jolie has been followed by dozens of photographers during her trip |
The agency stressed that the process had begun last summer, and added that Jolie had neither made, nor promised to make, "any financial contributions" to the orphanage involved. Jolie is expected to meet with officials at the US embassy in Hanoi on Tuesday to apply for her new son's visa.
She was joined in Vietnam by her five-year-old son Maddox, who was adopted from Cambodia.
She also has two daughters - Zahara, who is two and originally came from Ethiopia, and Shiloh, who was born to the actress and her partner, Brad Pitt, last year.
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