Filed on February 16, 2024

485BXT			File Nos. 333-268963
Allianz Index Advantage+ NF			811-05618
			Class ID: C000241317
	UNITED STATES
	SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
	WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
	FORM N-4
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Pre-Effective Amendment No.
Post-Effective Amendment No.		4		X
and/or
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940
Amendment No.		609		X
(Check appropriate box or boxes.)
ALLIANZ LIFE VARIABLE ACCOUNT B
(Exact Name of Registrant)
ALLIANZ LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA
(Name of Depositor)
5701 Golden Hills Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55416-1297
(Address of Depositor's Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
(763) 765-7494
(Depositor's Telephone Number, including Area Code)
John P. Hite, Senior Counsel, Associate General Counsel
Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America
5701 Golden Hills Drive
Minneapolis, MN 55416-1297
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check the appropriate box):

_____immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b) of Rule 485

__X___on March 15, 2024 pursuant to paragraph (b) of Rule 485

____60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) of Rule 485

_____on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) of Rule 485

If appropriate, check the following:

___X__this post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment.

Approximate Date of the Proposed Public Offering: May 1, 2024

Titles of Securities Being Registered: Individual Flexible Purchase Payment Variable and Index-linked Deferred Annuity Contract

Parts A, B and C were filed in Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 to Form N-4 on December 20, 2023 and are incorporated by reference.

Pursuant to Rule 485(b)(1)(iii) of the Securities Act of 1933, the sole purpose of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 is to delay the effective date of Post-Effective Amendment No. 3, which was filed on December 20, 2023. The Post-Effective Amendment does not amend or delete the currently effective Prospectus, Supplements or Statement of Additional Information or any other part of the Registration Statement except as specifically noted herein. We will make a filing pursuant to Rule 485(b) at a future date which incorporates all staff comments and any required missing information or items.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America on behalf of the Registrant certifies that it has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Minneapolis and State of Minnesota, on this 16th day of February, 2024.

ALLIANZ LIFE VARIABLE ACCOUNT B
(Registrant)

By: ALLIANZ LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA
(Depositor)

By: /s/ JOHN P. HITE

John P. Hite

Senior Counsel, Associate General Counsel

ALLIANZ LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA
(Depositor)

By: JASMINE M. JIRELE ⁽¹⁾
Jasmine M. Jirele
President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on the 16th  day of February, 2024.

Signature	Title
Jasmine M. Jirele (1)	Director, President & Chief Executive Officer
Andreas G. Wimmer (1)	Director and Board Chair
William E. Gaumond(1)	Director, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer (principal accounting officer)
Howard E. Woolley(1)	Director
Udo Frank(1)	Director
Kevin E. Walker(1)	Director
Walter R. White(1)	Director
Lauren Kathryn Day(1)	Director

Powers of Attorney, incorporated by reference as Exhibit 24(c) from Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 to Registrant’s Form S-1 (File No. 333-264349), electronically filed on October 11, 2023.

By: /s/ John P. Hite

John P. Hite

Senior Counsel, Associate General Counsel