As filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on May 8, 2020
1933 Act Registration No. 333-210186
1940 Act Registration No. 811-23147
United States
Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form N-1A
Registration Statement Under the Securities Act of 1933
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Pre-Effective Amendment No. __
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Post-Effective Amendment No. 130
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[X]
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and/or
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Registration Statement Under the Investment Company Act of 1940
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Amendment No. 132
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[X]
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First Trust Exchange-Traded
Fund VIII
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in charter)
120 East Liberty Drive, Suite 400
Wheaton, Illinois 60187
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)
Registrant’s Telephone
Number, including Area Code: (800) 621-1675
W. Scott Jardine, Esq., Secretary
First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII
First Trust Advisors L.P.
120 East Liberty Drive, Suite 400
Wheaton, Illinois 60187
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
Copy to:
Eric F. Fess, Esq.
Chapman and Cutler LLP
111 West Monroe Street
Chicago, Illinois 60603
It is proposed that this filing will become effective
(check appropriate box):
[ ] immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
[X] on June 7, 2020 pursuant to
paragraph (b)
[ ] 60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
[ ] on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
[ ] 75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
[ ] on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485.
If appropriate, check the following box:
[X] this post-effective
amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment.
Contents of Post-Effective
Amendment No. 130
This Registration
Statement comprises the following papers and contents:
The Facing
Sheet
The sole purpose
of this filing is to delay the effectiveness of the Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 122, as it relates to the
First Trust Multi-Manager Small Cap Core ETF, a series of the Registrant, until June 7, 2020.
Parts A, B and C of the Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 41 under the Securities Act of 1933 as it relates to the
First Trust Multi-Manager Small Cap Core ETF, filed on May 16, 2019, are incorporated by reference herein.
Signatures
Signatures
Pursuant to
the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant certifies that it meets
all of the requirements for effectiveness of this Registration Statement under rule 485(b) under the Securities Act and has duly
caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Wheaton, and
State of Illinois, on the 8th day of May, 2020.
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First Trust
Exchange-Traded Fund VIII
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By:
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/s/ James M. Dykas
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James M. Dykas, President and
Chief Executive Officer
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Pursuant to
the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the
capacities and on the date indicated:
Signature
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Title
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Date
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/s/ James M. Dykas
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President and Chief Executive
Officer
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May 8, 2020
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James M. Dykas
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/s/ Donald P. Swade
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Treasurer, Chief Financial Officer
and Chief Accounting Officer
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May 8, 2020
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Donald P. Swade
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James A. Bowen*
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Trustee )
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Richard E. Erickson*
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Trustee )
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Thomas R. Kadlec*
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Trustee )
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By:
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/s/ W. Scott Jardine
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Robert F. Keith*
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Trustee )
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W. Scott Jardine
Attorney-In-Fact
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May 8, 2020
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Niel B. Nielson *
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Trustee )
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Original powers of attorney authorizing James A. Bowen, W. Scott Jardine, James M. Dykas, Eric F. Fess and Kristi A.
Maher to execute Registrant's Registration Statement, and Amendments thereto, for each of the trustees of the Registrant on whose
behalf this Registration Statement is filed, were previously executed, filed as an exhibit and are incorporated by reference herein.
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