As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 10, 2011

Commission File Nos.  333-118368

811-08664

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.  22	[X]
and/or

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940

Amendment No. 269 [X]

JACKSON NATIONAL SEPARATE ACCOUNT - I

(Exact Name of Registrant)

JACKSON NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

(Name of Depositor)

1 Corporate Way, Lansing, Michigan 48951

(Address of Depositor's Principal Executive Offices)

Depositor's Telephone Number, including Area Code: (517) 381-5500

Thomas J. Meyer, Esq., Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel

Jackson National Life Insurance Company, 1 Corporate Way, Lansing, MI 48951

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

Copy to:

Frank J. Julian, Esq., Associate General Counsel

Jackson National Life Insurance Company, 1 Corporate Way, Lansing, MI 48951

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

Approximate Date of Proposed Public Offering:
It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box)
[   ]	immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
[X]	on August 29, 2011, pursuant to paragraph (b)
[]	60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
[   ]	on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1).
If appropriate, check the following box:
[X]	this post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment
Title of Securities Being Registered: the variable portion of Flexible Premium Fixed and Variable Deferred Annuity contracts

SEC 2125 (7-09)

EXPLANATORY NOTE: Pursuant to Rule 485(b)(1)(iii) of the Securities Act of 1933, the sole purpose of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 22, is to designate a new effective date of the Post-Effective Amendment No. 21, which was filed on July 15, 2011 (0000927730-11-000292) .  Parts A, B and C of Post-Effective Amendment No. 21 are unchanged and hereby incorporated by reference.

SIGNATURES

As required by the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant certifies that it meets the requirements of Securities Act Rule 485(b) for effectiveness of this post-effective amendment and has caused this post-effective amendment to be signed on its behalf, in the City of Lansing, and State of Michigan, on this 10th day of August, 2011.

Jackson National Separate Account - I

(Registrant)

Jackson National Life Insurance Company

By:  /s/ Thomas J. Meyer                                                                           

Thomas J. Meyer

Senior Vice President, General Counsel

and Secretary

Jackson National Life Insurance Company

(Depositor)

By:    /s/ Thomas J. Meyer                                                                           

Thomas J. Meyer

Senior Vice President, General Counsel

and Secretary

As required by the Securities Act of 1933, this post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

*
/s/ Thomas J. Meyer	August 10, 2011
Michael A. Wells, President, Chief
Executive Officer, Chairman and Director
*
/s/ Thomas J. Meyer	August 10, 2011
James R. Sopha, Chief Operating Officer
and Director
*
/s/ Thomas J. Meyer	August 10, 2011
Clifford J. Jack, Executive Vice President
and Director
*
/s/ Thomas J. Meyer	August 10, 2011
P. Chad Myers, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Director
*
/s/ Thomas J. Meyer	August 10, 2011
Robert A. Fritts, Senior Vice President and
Controller
*
/s/ Thomas J. Meyer	August 10, 2011
Leandra R. Knes, Director

* Thomas J. Meyer, Senior Vice President,

Secretary, General Counsel and Attorney-in-Fact

pursuant to Power of Attorney effective

April 7, 2011

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned as directors and/or officers of JACKSON NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (the Depositor), a Michigan corporation, hereby appoint Michael A. Wells, P. Chad Myers, Thomas J. Meyer, Patrick W. Garcy, Susan S. Rhee, and Anthony L. Dowling (each with power to act without the others) his attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign applications and registration  statements,  and any and all amendments, with power to affix the corporate seal and to attest it, and to file the applications, registration statements, and amendments, with all exhibits and  requirements, in accordance with the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, and/or the Investment Company Act of 1940.  This Power of Attorney concerns JNL Separate Account - I (File Nos. 033-82080, 333-70472, 333-73850, 333-118368, 333-119656, 333-132128, 333-136472, 333-155675, 333-172874, 333-172875 and 333-172877), JNL Separate Account III (File No. 333-41153), JNL Separate Account IV (File Nos. 333-108433 and 333-118131), and JNL Separate Account V (File No. 333-70697), as well as any future separate account(s) and/or future file number(s) within any separate account(s) that the Depositor establishes through which securities, particularly variable annuity contracts and variable universal life insurance policies, are to be offered for sale. The undersigned grant to each attorney-in-fact and agent full authority to take all necessary actions to effectuate the above as fully, to all intents and purposes, as he/she could do in person, thereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any one of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.  This instrument may be executed in one or more counterparts.

IN WITNESS  WHEREOF,  the undersigned have executed this Power of Attorney effective as of the 7th day of April, 2011.

MICHAEL A. WELLS

______________________________________

Michael A. Wells, President, Chief

Executive Officer and Director

JAMES R. SOPHA

______________________________________

James R. Sopha, Chief Operating Officer

and Director

CLIFFORD J. JACK

______________________________________

Clifford J. Jack, Executive Vice President

and Director

P. CHAD MYERS

______________________________________

P. Chad Myers, Executive Vice President,

Chief Financial Officer and Director

CLARK P. MANNING, JR.

______________________________________

Clark P. Manning, Jr., Director

ROBERT A. FRITTS

______________________________________

Robert A. Fritts, Senior Vice President and

Controller

LEANDRA R. KNES

______________________________________

Leandra R. Knes, Director