|SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION                      
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|Washington, D.C. 20549                                  
|FORM N-1A                                               
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|REGISTRATION STATEMENT (No. 033-20773)                  
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|REGISTRATION STATEMENT (No. 811-05511)                  
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|Variable Insurance Products Fund II                     
|(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)      
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|245 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210          
|(Address Of Principal Executive Offices)      (Zip Code)
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|Registrant's Telephone Number:  617-563-7000            
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|Scott C. Goebel, Secretary                              
|245 Summer Street                                       
|Boston, Massachusetts 02210                             
|(Name and Address of Agent for Service)                 
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|It is proposed that this filing will become effective   
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|If appropriate, check the following box:                
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EXHIBIT INDEX

|Exhibit                                                | Exhibit No.
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|XBRL Instance Document                                 | EX-101.INS 
|XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document                | EX-101.SCH 
|XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document  | EX-101.CAL 
|XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document   | EX-101.DEF 
|XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels Linkbase Document       | EX-101.LAB 
|XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document | EX-101.PRE 

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 the effectiveness of this Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933
and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 65 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Boston, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the 17th day of May 2013.

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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 dates indicated.

|(Signature)                |   | (Title)                       | (Date)      
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|/s/Kenneth B. Robins       |   | President and Treasurer       | May 17, 3013
|Kenneth B. Robins          |   | (Principal Executive Officer) |             
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|/s/Christine Reynolds      |   | Chief Financial Officer       | May 17, 3013
|Christine Reynolds         |   | (Principal Financial Officer) |             
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|/s/James C. Curvey         | * | Trustee                       | May 17, 3013
|James C. Curvey            |   |                               |             
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|/s/Dennis J. Dirks         | * | Trustee                       | May 17, 3013
|Dennis J. Dirks            |   |                               |             
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|/s/Alan J. Lacy            | * | Trustee                       | May 17, 3013
|Alan J. Lacy               |   |                               |             
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|/s/Ned C. Lautenbach       | * | Trustee                       | May 17, 3013
|Ned C. Lautenbach          |   |                               |             
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|/s/Joseph Mauriello        | * | Trustee                       | May 17, 3013
|Joseph Mauriello           |   |                               |             
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|/s/Ronald P. O'Hanley      | * | Trustee                       | May 17, 3013
|Ronald P. O'Hanley         |   |                               |             
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|/s/Robert W. Selander      | * | Trustee                       | May 17, 3013
|Robert W. Selander         |   |                               |             
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|/s/Cornelia M. Small       | * | Trustee                       | May 17, 3013
|Cornelia M. Small          |   |                               |             
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|/s/William S. Stavropoulos | * | Trustee                       | May 17, 3013
|William S. Stavropoulos    |   |                               |             
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|/s/David M. Thomas         | * | Trustee                       | May 17, 3013
|David M. Thomas            |   |                               |             
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|/s/Michael E. Wiley        | * | Trustee                       | May 17, 3013
|Michael E. Wiley           |   |                               |             

|* | By: | /s/Joseph R. Fleming                                                                        
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|  |     | Joseph R. Fleming,pursuant to a power of attorney dated December 1, 2011 and filed herewith.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

We, the undersigned Directors or Trustees, as the case may be, of the following investment companies:

|Fidelity Advisor Series I
Fidelity Advisor Series VII
Fidelity Advisor Series VIII
Fidelity Beacon Street Trust
Fidelity Capital Trust
Fidelity Central Investment Portfolios LLC
Fidelity Commonwealth Trust
Fidelity Concord Street Trust
Fidelity Congress Street Fund
Fidelity Contrafund
Fidelity Covington Trust
Fidelity Destiny Portfolios
Fidelity Devonshire Trust
Fidelity Exchange Fund
Fidelity Financial Trust | Fidelity Hanover Street Trust
Fidelity Hastings Street Trust
Fidelity Investment Trust
Fidelity Magellan Fund
Fidelity Mt. Vernon Street Trust
Fidelity Puritan Trust
Fidelity Securities Fund
Fidelity Select Portfolios
Fidelity Summer Street Trust
Fidelity Trend Fund
Variable Insurance Products Fund
Variable Insurance Products Fund II
Variable Insurance Products Fund III
Variable Insurance Products Fund IV
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in addition to any other investment company for which Fidelity Management & Research Company ("FMR") or an affiliate acts as investment adviser and for which the undersigned individuals serve as Directors or Trustees (collectively, the "Funds"), hereby revoke all previous powers of attorney we have given to sign and otherwise act in our names and behalf in matters involving any investment company
for which FMR or an affiliate acts as investment adviser and hereby constitute and appoint Thomas C. Bogle, Joseph R. Fleming, John V.
O'Hanlon, Robert W. Helm and Anthony H. Zacharski, each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution, and with full power to each of them, to sign for us and in our names in the appropriate capacities, all Registration Statements of
the Funds on Form N-1A, or any successors thereto, any and all subsequent Amendments, Pre-Effective Amendments, or Post-Effective
Amendments to said Registration Statements or any successors thereto, and any supplements or other instruments in connection therewith,
and generally to do all such things in our names and behalf in connection therewith as said attorneys-in-fact deem necessary or appropriate,
to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, and all related requirements of the
Securities and Exchange Commission.  We hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact or their substitutes may do or cause to
be done by virtue hereof.  This power of attorney is effective for all documents filed on or after December 1, 2011.

WITNESS our hands on this first day of December 1, 2011.

|/s/James C. Curvey    | /s/Robert W. Selander     
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|James C. Curvey       | Robert W. Selander        
|/s/Ronald P. O'Hanley | /s/Cornelia M. Small      
|Ronald P. O'Hanley    | Cornelia M. Small         
|/s/Dennis J. Dirks    | /s/William S. Stavropoulos
|Dennis J. Dirks       | William S. Stavropoulos   
|/s/Alan J. Lacy       | /s/David M. Thomas        
|Alan J. Lacy          | David M. Thomas           
|/s/Ned C. Lautenbach  | /s/Michael E. Wiley       
|Ned C. Lautenbach     | Michael E. Wiley          
|/s/Joseph Mauriello   |                           
|Joseph Mauriello      |