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UNUM Life Insurance Company of America
2211 Congress Street
Portland, Maine 04122
May 7, 1999
VIA EDGAR TRANSMISSION
Securities and Exchange Commission
Office of Insurance Products
Division of Investment Management
Judiciary Plaza
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: UNUM Life Insurance Company of America VA-I Separate Account
File No. 33-45846
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Commissioners:
On behalf of UNUM Life Insurance Company of America (the "Company") and
UNUM Life Insurance Company of America VA-I Separate Account (the "Account"). I
hereby certify, pursuant to paragraph (j) of Rule 497 under the Securities Act
of 1933, that the form of the Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information
("SAI") being used in connection with certain deferred variable annuity
contracts offered by the Company through the Account and otherwise required to
be filed under paragraph C of Rule 497 do not differ from the Prospectus and SAI
contained in the Post-Effective Amendment No. 9 for the Account filed on April
29, 1999.
If you have any questions, please contact me at (219) 455-4929.
Sincerely
/s/ Catherine M. Currie
Catherine M. Currie, CFP
Copy to: Kim Smith, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan
Rosemary Moore, Esq.
William Galeota, Esq.
