Post-Effective Amendment to Registration Statement by Investment Company (Form 485BPOS)

Table of Contents 

important Information you should consider about the policy	4
Overview of the Policy	7
Purpose	7
Premiums	7
Policy Features	7
Death benefit.	7
Surrender of the policy.	7
Withdrawals.	7
Policy loans.	8
Supplementary benefit riders.	8
Fee Table	9
General Description of the Policy	11
Policy Rights	11
Owner and beneficiary.	11
Allocation of Premiums	11
Transfers of Account value	11
Limitations on transfers to or from a variable investment account.	11
Frequent transfers among variable investment accounts.	12
Limitations on transfers out of the fixed accounts.	12
Potential additional limitations.	13
Dollar cost averaging and asset allocation balancer programs.	13
General Account	13
The fixed accounts.	14
Premiums	15
Purchase Procedures	15
Premium Amount	15
Processing Premium Payments	15
Premium Due Dates	16
Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit Feature	16
Standard Death Benefits	18
Standard Death Benefits	18
Effectiveness and Policy Date.	18
Temporary insurance coverage.	18
Option A and Option B.	18
Optional extra death benefit.	18
Base Sum Insured and Additional Sum Insured.	19
Minimum death benefit.	19
Calculation and payment of the death benefit.	19
Changes you may make.	20
Additional Information About Standard Death Benefits	20
Requesting an increase or decrease in coverage.	20
Change of death benefit option.	20
Tax consequences of coverage changes.	20
Limitations on payment of death benefit.	20
Surrenders and Withdrawals	21
Surrender and Withdrawal	21

important Information you should consider about the policy 

FEES AND EXPENSES
Charges for Early Withdrawals	There are partial withdrawal charges assessed if your make a partial withdrawal. The maximum partial withdrawal charge is equal to the lesser of 2% of the withdrawal amount or $20.			FEE TABLE   Deductions from account value
Transaction Charges	You may also be charged for the following transactions:   A sales charge, a premium tax charge, a deferred acquisition cost ("DAC") tax charge, and a premium processing charge will be deducted from each premium paid.			FEE TABLE   Deductions from premium payments   Deductions from account value
Ongoing Fees and Expenses (annual charges)	In addition to transaction charges, you will also be subject to certain ongoing fees and expenses, including an insurance charge, administrative charge, issue charge, Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit charge, mortality and expense risk ("M&E") charge, policy loan costs, and supplementary benefit rider charges. Some of these fees and expenses are based wholly or in part on the characteristics of the insured persons (e.g., age, sex, and underwriting classification).   You should view the "policy specifications" page of your policy for rates applicable to your policy.			FEE TABLE   Deductions from account value
	You will also bear expenses associated with the portfolios under the policy, as shown in the following table:			Charges at the portfolio level   APPENDIX
	Annual Fee	Minimum	Maximum
	Variable investment accounts (portfolio fees and expenses)	0.39%	1.19%

 

RISKS
Risk of Loss	You can lose money by investing in this policy.	PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN A POLICY
Not a Short- Term Investment	This policy is not a short-term investment and is not appropriate for an investor who needs ready access to cash. The policy is unsuitable as a short-term savings vehicle because of substantial policy-level charges, including the sales charge and the premium tax charge, as well as potential adverse tax consequences from such short-term use.	Early Surrender or Withdrawal Risk/Not a Short-Term Investment
Risks Associated with Investment Options	An investment in this policy is subject to the risk of poor performance and can vary depending on the performance of the account allocation options available under the policy (e.g., portfolios). Each such option (including the fixed account) will have its own unique risks, and you should review these options before making an allocation decision. You can find the prospectuses and other information about the portfolios at dfinview.com/JohnHancock/PUFT/MVEP1998-UV?site=Majestic.	Investment Risk/Risk of Loss

RISKS
Insurance Company Risks	Your investment in the policy is subject to risks related to John Hancock USA, including that the obligations (including under the fixed account option), guarantees, or benefits are subject to the claims-paying ability of John Hancock USA. Information about John Hancock USA, including its financial strength ratings, is available upon request from your John Hancock USA representative. Our current financial strength ratings can also be obtained by contacting the Service Office at 1-800-448-1616.	Depositor   Registrant
Policy Lapse	Unless the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit feature is in effect, your policy (or part of it) can terminate (i.e., "lapse") if the account value of your policy is insufficient to pay the charges when due. This can happen as a result of insufficient premium payments, poor performance of the variable or general account options you have chosen, withdrawals, or unpaid loans or loan interest. You will be given a grace period within which to make additional premium payments to keep the policy in effect. If lapse occurs, you'll be given the opportunity to reinstate the policy by making the required premium payments and satisfying certain other conditions.	Lapse and Reinstatement

 

RESTRICTIONS
Investments	There are restrictions that may limit the variable investment account options and general account options (including the fixed account) that you may choose, as well as limitations on the transfer of account value among those options. These restrictions may include a monthly limit on the number of transfers you may make. We may also impose additional restrictions to discourage market timing and disruptive trading activity.   In particular, your allocation options will be affected if you elect to take a loan or receive benefits under certain supplementary benefit riders.   Among other things, the policy also allows us to eliminate the shares of a portfolio or substitute shares of another new or existing portfolio, subject to applicable legal requirements.	Limitations on transfers to or from a variable investment account   Limitations on transfers out of the fixed account   Effect of Loans on Cash Value and Death Benefit     Portfolios
Optional Benefits	There are restrictions and limitations relating to optional benefits, as well as conditions under which an optional benefit may be modified or terminated by us. For example, certain supplementary benefit riders may be subject to underwriting, and your election of an option may result in restrictions upon some of the policy benefits, including availability of investment options.	More About Certain Optional Benefits

 

TAXES
Tax Implications	You should consult with a tax professional to determine the tax implications of an investment in and payments received under the policy. There is no additional tax benefit to you if the policy is purchased through a tax-qualified plan. If we pay out any amount of your account value upon surrender or partial withdrawal, all or part of that distribution would generally be treated as a return of the premiums you've paid and not subjected to income tax, with any portion not treated as a return of your premiums includible in your income. Distributions also are subject to tax penalties under some circumstances. If your policy is a modified endowment contract, distributions, including policy loans, are treated as coming first from the gain in the policy and are includible in your income.	Tax Consequences of Owning a Policy

 

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Investment Professional Compensation	Some investment professionals may receive compensation for selling the policy, including by means of commissions and revenue sharing arrangements. These investment professionals may have a financial incentive to offer or recommend this policy over another investment.	Commissions Paid to Dealers
Exchanges	Some investment professionals may have a financial incentive to offer you a new policy in place of the one you already own, and you should only exchange your policy if you determine, after comparing the features, fees, and risks of both policies, that it is preferable for you to purchase the new policy rather than continue to own the existing policy.	Commissions Paid to Dealers

Overview of the Policy

Purpose

This is a so-called "survivorship" policy that provides coverage on two insured persons. The policy's primary purpose is to provide lifetime protection against economic loss due to the death of the insured persons. Fees, expenses and tax implications can make variable life insurance unsuitable as a short-term savings vehicle.

Premiums

We call the investments you make in the policy "premiums" or "premium payments." The Minimum Initial Premium is a dollar amount that is stated in your policy specifications and that must be paid to us in full before your policy will take effect. Premium payments after the initial premium may not be required, but you must pay enough premium to keep the policy in force. That's why the policy is called a "flexible premium" policy. After the payment of the initial premium, premiums may be paid at any time and in any amount, subject to the need to pay enough premium to keep the policy in force, and to limitations on maximum premium amount.

Federal tax law limits the amount of premium payments you can make relative to the amount of your policy's insurance coverage. We will not knowingly accept any amount by which a premium payment exceeds this limit. In addition, in order to limit our investment risk exposure under certain market conditions, we may refuse to accept additional premium payments.

From each premium payment you make, we deduct the applicable premium charges identified in the FEE TABLE. We invest the rest (the "net premium") in the variable investment accounts or any fixed account you've elected.

The policy offers a number of variable investment accounts. You can find some important information about each portfolio in the APPENDIX, but for a full description of each portfolio, including the investment objectives and strategies, policies, restrictions, and risks, you should read the portfolio's prospectus carefully before investing in the corresponding variable investment account.

You can also allocate account value to the fixed account (where it is credited with rates of interest that we declare from time to time but will never be less than a minimum rate guaranteed in your policy specifications).

If the account value of your policy is insufficient to pay the charges when due and the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit feature is not in effect, your policy (or part of it) can terminate (i.e., "lapse"). This can happen because you haven't paid enough premium, because the investment performance of the variable investment accounts you've chosen has been poor, or because of a combination of both factors.

Policy Features

Death benefit. When the last surviving insured person dies, we will pay the "death benefit" minus any outstanding loans. There are two ways of calculating the death benefit. You choose which one you want in the application.

• Option A. The death benefit will equal the greater of (1) the Total Sum Insured plus any optional extra death benefit, if elected,, or (2) the minimum insurance amount. The "Total Sum Insured" is the amount of life insurance coverage equal to the "Basic Sum Insured" plus any "Additional Sum Insured," as set forth in your policy.

• Option B. The death benefit will equal the greater of (1) the Total Sum Insured plus your policy's account value on the date of death of the last surviving insured person, or (2) the minimum insurance amount.

Surrender of the policy. You may surrender the policy in full at any time. If you do, we will pay you the account value less any outstanding policy debt plus, if surrender occurs in the second policy year, a refund of a certain portion of sales charges equal to 5% of premiums paid in the second policy year up to the Target Premium. This is called your "surrender value." You must return your policy when you request a surrender.

Withdrawals. You may make a partial withdrawal of your surrender value at any time. Each withdrawal must be at least $1,000. There is a charge for each partial withdrawal. Your account value is automatically reduced by the amount of the withdrawal and the charge. We reserve the right to refuse a withdrawal if it would reduce the surrender value or the Total Sum Insured below certain minimum amounts.

Policy loans. You may borrow from your policy at any time by completing the appropriate form. The minimum amount of each loan is $1,000. The maximum amount you can borrow is determined by a formula as described in your policy. Interest is charged on each loan. If there is an outstanding loan when the insured person dies, it will be deducted from the death benefit.

Supplementary benefit riders. When you apply for the policy, you can request any of the below-listed supplementary benefit riders that we make available. Charges for most riders will be deducted monthly from the account value. Some riders may not be available in combination with other riders or benefits.

• Enhanced Cash Value Rider

• Policy Split Option Rider

You can find information about the fees we charge for these riders under "Optional Benefit Charges" in the Fee Table below. We also offer, at no charge, a dollar cost averaging ("DCA") program and an asset allocation balancer program.

Fee Table

The following tables describe the fees and expenses that you will pay when buying, owning, and surrendering or making withdrawals from the policy. Please refer to your policy specifications for information about the specific fees you will pay each year based on the options you have elected.

The first table describes the fees and expenses that you will pay at the time that you buy the policy, surrender or make withdrawals from the policy, or transfer account value between investment options. 

TRANSACTION FEES
Charge	When Charge is Deducted	Amount Deducted
Maximum sales charge(1)	Upon payment of premium	30% of Target Premiums paid
Premium tax charge(2)	Upon payment of premium	2.35% of each premium paid
DAC tax charge(2)	Upon payment of premium	1.25% of each premium paid
Premium processing charge(3)	Upon payment of premium	1.25% of each premium paid
Maximum partial withdrawal charge	Upon making a partial withdrawal	Lesser of 2% of withdrawal amount or $20
Enhanced Cash Value Rider Charge	Upon payment of premium	2% of premiums paid in the first policy year up to the Target Premium

(1) The sales charges is 30% of Target Premiums paid in policy year 1; 15% of Target Premiums paid in policy years 2-5; 10% of Target Premiums paid in policy years 6-10; 4% of Target Premiums paid in policy years 11-20; and 3% of Target Premiums paid in policy years 21 and thereafter. Also, there is a sales charge of 3.5% of any premiums paid in excess of Target Premiums in policy years 1-10, and 3% of any premiums paid in excess of Target Premiums in policy years 11 and thereafter. If the younger insured is 71 or older when the policy is issued, there will be no sales charges after policy year 11. The "Target Premium" for each policy year is determined at the time the policy is issued and appears in the policy specifications section of the policy. In general, the greater the proportion of Additional Sum Insured at issue, the lower the Target Premium.

(2) We reserve the right to increase premium tax and DAC tax charges beyond the levels indicated in order to correspond with charges in state premium tax levels or in the Federal income tax treatment of the deferred acquisition costs for this type of policy.

(3) For policies with a Total Sum Insured of $5 million or more, this charge will be reduced to as low as .50%.

The next table describes the fees and expenses that you will pay periodically during the time that you own the policy, not including portfolio fees and expenses. 

PERIODIC CHARGES OTHER THAN ANNUAL PORTFOLIO EXPENSES
Charge	When Charge is Deducted	Amount Deducted
Base Policy Charges:
Insurance charge(1)	Monthly
Minimum charge		$0.0001 per $1,000 of AAR
Maximum charge		$83.20 per $1,000 of AAR
Charge for representative insured person		$0.003 per $1,000 of AAR
Administrative charge(2)	Monthly	$10 in all policy years plus 3¢ per $1,000 of Total Sum Insured at issue in all policy years
Issue charge(3)	Monthly	$55.55 only during policy years 1-5 plus 2¢ per $1,000 of Total Sum Insured at issue only during policy years 1-3
Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit charge(4)	Monthly, starting in policy year 11	3¢ per $1,000 of Basic Sum Insured
M&E charge(5)	Daily from Separate Account assets	0.002% of assets
Maximum policy loan interest rate(6)	Accrues daily, payable annually	5.00%
Optional Benefit Charges:
Policy Split Option Rider	Monthly	3¢ per $1,000 of current Total Sum Insured

(1) The insurance charge is determined by multiplying the amount of insurance for which we are at risk (the "AAR") by the applicable cost of insurance rate. The rates vary widely depending upon, the length of time the policy has been in effect, the insurance risk characteristics of the insured persons and (generally) the gender of the insured persons. The minimum rate shown is the rate in the first policy year for a $1,000,000 policy for two 25 year old female preferred non-tobacco underwriting risks. The maximum rate shown is the rate in the first policy year for a $100,000 for two 99 year old male substandard tobacco underwriting risks. This includes the so-called "extra mortality charge." The representative insured persons rate are a 55 year old male preferred non- tobacco underwriting risk and a 50 year old female preferred non-tobacco underwriting risk. These charges may not be particularly relevant to your current situation, and you can obtain information about the specific charges applicable to you from your John Hancock USA representative.

(2) For policies with a Total Sum Insured of $5 million or more, the first part of this charge is currently $0.

(3) The second part of this charge is guaranteed not to exceed $200.

(4) This charge only applies if the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit feature is elected to extend beyond the tenth policy year.

(5) This charge only applies to Separate Account assets (i.e., those assets invested in the variable investment accounts). The charge does not apply to any fixed account. The effective annual rate equivalents of the actual unrounded daily rates charged are .60% on a guaranteed basis.

(6)  5.00% is the maximum effective annual interest rate we can charge and applies only during policy years 1-20. The effective annual interest rate is 4.00% for policy year 21 and thereafter (although we reserve the right to increase the rate after the twentieth policy year to as much as 4.50%). The amount of any loan is transferred from the investment options to a special loan account which earns interest at an effective annual rate of 4.00%. Therefore, the true cost of a loan is the difference between the loan interest we charge and the interest we credit to the special loan account.

The next item shows the minimum and maximum total operating expenses charged by the portfolios that you may pay periodically during the time that you own the policy. A complete list of the portfolios available under the policy, including their annual expenses, may be found at the back of this document. 

Annual Portfolio Expenses	Minimum	Maximum
Range of expenses that are deducted from portfolio assets, including management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees, and other expenses	0.39%	1.19%

General Description of the Policy

Policy Rights

Owner and beneficiary. The owner of the policy is the person who can exercise most of the rights under the policy, such as the right to choose the accounts in which to invest or the right to surrender the policy. In many cases, the person buying the policy is also the person who will be the owner. However, the application for a policy can name another person or entity (such as a trust) as owner. It is possible to name so-called "joint owners" of the policy. If more than one person owns a policy, all owners must join in most requests to exercise rights under the policy. Whenever we've used the term "you" in this prospectus, we've assumed that the reader is the person who has whatever right or privilege is being discussed. There may be tax consequences if the owner and the insured persons are different, so you should discuss this issue with your tax adviser.

While either of the insured persons is alive, you will have a number of options under the policy. These options include:

• Determine when and how much you allocate to the variable investment accounts and any fixed account

• Borrow or withdraw amounts you have in the variable investment account and any fixed account

• Change the beneficiary who will receive the death benefit

• Change the amount of insurance

• Surrender the policy for the its surrender value

• Choose the form in which we will pay out the death benefit or other proceeds

You name your beneficiary when you apply for the policy. The beneficiary is entitled to the proceeds we pay following the last surviving insured person's death. Until the death of the last surviving insured person you can change your beneficiary by written request. Such a change requires the consent of any named irrevocable beneficiary. A new beneficiary designation will not affect any payments we make before we receive it. If no beneficiary is living when the last surviving insured person dies, we will pay the insurance proceeds to the owner or the owner's estate.

Allocation of Premiums

Any premium payment processed prior to the twentieth day after the policy's Issue Date will automatically be allocated to the Money Market variable investment account. On the later of the date such payment is received or the twentieth day following the Issue Date, the portion of the Money Market variable investment account attributable to such payment will be reallocated automatically among the variable investment accounts and any fixed account you have chosen. All other premium payments will be allocated among the variable investment accounts and any fixed account you have chosen as soon as they are processed. You make the original allocation in the application for the policy. The percentages you select must be in whole numbers and must total 100%. At any time, you may change the investment options in which future premium payments will be invested.

There are restrictions that may limit the variable account investment options and fixed account options that you may choose, as well as limitations on the transfer of account value among those options.

Transfers of Account value

You may transfer your account value from one variable investment account or any fixed account to another, subject to the limitations discussed below. To do so, you must tell us how much to transfer, either as a whole number percentage or as a specific dollar amount. A confirmation of each transfer will be sent to you.

We have adopted policies and procedures with respect to frequent transfers of account value among variable investment accounts.

Limitations on transfers to or from a variable investment account. Our current practice is to restrict transfers into or out of variable investment accounts to two per calendar month (except with respect to those policies described in the following paragraphs). For purposes of this restriction, and in applying the limitation on the number of free transfers, any transfers made during the period from the opening of a business day (usually 9:00 a.m. Eastern time) to the close of that business day (usually 4:00 p.m. Eastern time) are considered one transfer. You may, however, transfer to the Money Market variable investment account even if the two transfers per month limit has been reached, but only if 100% of the account value in all variable

investment accounts is transferred to the Money Market variable investment account. If such a transfer to the Money Market variable investment account is made, then for the 30 calendar day period after such transfer no transfers from the Money Market variable investment account to any other variable investment account or any fixed account may be made. If your policy offers a dollar cost averaging or automatic asset allocation rebalancing program, any transfers pursuant to such program are not considered transfers subject to these restrictions on frequent trading.

Policies such as yours may be purchased by a corporation or other entity as a means to informally finance the liabilities created by an employee benefit plan, and to this end the entity may aggregately manage the policies purchased to match its liabilities under the plan. Policies sold under these circumstances are subject to special transfer restrictions. In lieu of the two transfers per month restriction, we will allow the policy owner under these circumstances to rebalance the variable investment accounts in its policies within the following limits: (i) during the 10 calendar day period after any account values are transferred from one variable investment account into a second variable investment account, the values can only be transferred out of the second variable investment account if they are transferred into the Money Market variable investment account; and (ii) any account values that would otherwise not be transferable by application of the 10 day limit described above and that are transferred into the Money Market variable investment account may not be transferred out of the Money Market variable investment account into any other variable investment account or any fixed account for 30 calendar days.

Subject to our approval, we may offer policies purchased by a corporation or other entity that has purchased policies to match its liabilities under an employee benefit plan, as described above, the ability to electronically rebalance the variable investment accounts in its policies. Under these circumstances, in lieu of imposing any specific limit upon the number and timing of transfers, we will monitor aggregate trades among the subaccounts for frequency, pattern and size for potentially harmful investment practices. If we detect trading activity that we believe may be harmful to the overall operation of any variable investment account or portfolio, we may impose conditions on policies employing electronic rebalancing to submit trades, including setting limits upon the number and timing of transfers, and revoking privileges to make trades by any means other than written communication submitted via U.S. mail. While we seek to identify and prevent disruptive frequent trading activity, it may not always be possible to do so. Therefore, no assurance can be given that the restrictions we impose will be successful in preventing all disruptive frequent trading and avoiding harm to long- term investors.

We will apply these limitations uniformly to each class of policies.

Frequent transfers among variable investment accounts. Variable investment accounts in variable life insurance products can be a prime target for abusive transfer activity because these products value their variable investment accounts on a daily basis and allow transfers among variable investment accounts without immediate tax consequences. As a result, some investors may seek to frequently transfer into and out of variable investment accounts or to make large transfers in reaction to market news or to exploit a perceived pricing inefficiency. Whatever the reason, long-term investors in any variable investment account can be harmed by large or frequent transfer activity. For example, such activity may expose the variable investment account's portfolio to increased portfolio transaction costs and/or disrupt the portfolio manager's ability to effectively manage the portfolio's investments in accordance with the portfolio's investment objectives and policies. This could include causing the portfolio to maintain higher levels of cash than would otherwise be the case, or liquidating investments prematurely. Accordingly, frequent or large transfers may result in dilution with respect to interests held for long-term investment and adversely affect policy owners, beneficiaries and the portfolios.

To discourage market timing and disruptive trading activity, we impose restrictions on transfers and reserve the right to change, suspend or terminate telephone, facsimile and internet transaction privileges. We also reserve the right to impose limits on the number and frequency of transfers into and out of variable investment accounts.

While we seek to identify and prevent disruptive trading activity, it may not always be possible to do so. Therefore, no assurance can be given that the restrictions we impose will be successful in preventing all disruptive trading and avoiding harm to long-term investors.

Limitations on transfers out of the fixed accounts. Transfers out of the fixed accounts are currently subject to the following restrictions.

• You can only make one transfer out of either fixed account in each policy year.

• Any transfer request received within 6 months of the last transfer out of a fixed investment account will not be processed until such 6 month period has expired.

• The most you can transfer at any one time out of the standard fixed account is the greater of (i) $500 (ii) 20% of your assets in the standard fixed account or (iii) the amount you transferred out of the standard fixed account during the previous policy year.

• The most you can transfer at any one time out of the enhanced yield fixed account is the greater of (i) $500 (ii) 10% of your assets in the enhanced yield fixed account or (iii) the amount you transferred out of the enhanced yield fixed account during the previous policy year.

We reserve the right to impose a minimum amount limit on transfers out of either fixed account.

If there is a default as described in the "Lapse and reinstatement" provision and a "grace period" is triggered, you will be prohibited from making any transfers among variable investment and fixed accounts while the grace period remains in effect.

Potential additional limitations. We reserve the right to take other actions to restrict transfers, including, but not limited to: (i) restricting the number of transfers made during a defined period, (ii) restricting the dollar amount of transfers, (iii) restricting transfers into and out of certain variable investment accounts, (iv) restricting the method used to submit transfers, and (v) deferring a transfer at any time we are unable to purchase or redeem shares of the portfolio. We may also impose additional administrative conditions upon or prohibit a transfer request made by a third party giving instructions on behalf of multiple policies, whether owned by the same owner or different owners. If you engage a third party for asset allocation services, then you may be subject to these transfer restrictions because of the actions of that party in providing those services. We will notify the third party you have engaged if we exercise this right. A portfolio also may require us to impose additional trading restrictions if violations of its policies against frequent or disruptive trading in its shares are discovered.

Dollar cost averaging and asset allocation balancer programs. We may offer policy owners a dollar cost averaging ("DCA") program. Under the DCA program, you will designate an amount that will be transferred monthly from one variable investment account into any other variable investment account or a fixed account. If insufficient funds exist to effect a DCA transfer, the transfer will not be effected and you will be so notified. Scheduled transfers under this option may be made from the Money Market variable investment account to not more than nine other variable investment accounts or fixed accounts. However, the amount transferred to any one variable investment or fixed account must be at least $100. Once we receive the election in form satisfactory to us at our Service Office, transfers will begin on the second monthly deduction date following its receipt. Once elected, the scheduled monthly transfer option will remain in effect for so long as you have at least $2,500 of your account value in the Money Market variable investment account, or until we receive written notice from you of cancellation of the option or notice of the death of the last surviving insured person.

Under the asset allocation balancer program, you will designate an allocation of account value among variable investment accounts. We will move amounts among the variable investment accounts at specified intervals you select-annually, semi-annually, quarterly or monthly. A change to your premium allocation instructions will automatically result in a change in asset allocation balancer instructions so that the two are identical unless you either instruct us otherwise or have elected the dollar cost averaging program. This asset allocation balancer program only applies to account value in the variable investment accounts. No fee is charged for these programs. You can participate in both the dollar cost averaging and asset rebalancing programs at the same time. We reserve the right to cease to offer these programs as of 90 days after written notice is sent to you.

General Account

The fixed accounts are part of our general account. Our general account consists of all assets owned by us other than those in the Separate Account and any other separate accounts which we have established and may establish. Any interest credited to a policy owner from an investment in a fixed account, and any guaranteed benefits we may provide under the policy that exceed the value of amounts held in the Separate Account, will be paid from the Company's general account and will be subject to the Company's financial strength and claims paying ability. Subject to applicable law, John Hancock USA has sole discretion over the investment of the assets of the general account and policy owners do not share in the investment experience of, or have any preferential claim on, those assets. John Hancock USA bears full investment risk for all amounts allocated to the fixed accounts.

Because of exemptive and exclusionary provisions, interests in our fixed account have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act of 1933 and our general account has not been registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"). Accordingly, neither the general account nor any interests therein are subject to the provisions of these acts. Disclosures regarding the general account, however, are subject generally to applicable provisions of federal securities laws relating to the accuracy and completeness of statements made in the prospectus.

The fixed accounts. Account value allocated to any fixed account will accrue interest daily at an effective annual rate that we determine and that depends on a number of significant considerations in addition to the actual investment experience we expect for the general account. We currently offer two fixed accounts-the standard fixed account and the enhanced yield fixed account. The effective annual rate we declare for either of these fixed accounts will never be less than 4%. We reserve the right to offer one or more additional fixed accounts with characteristics that differ from those of the current fixed account, but we are under no obligation to do so. Any interest we credit in excess of the guaranteed interest crediting rate will be based on our sole discretion. Additionally, interest credited on a non-guaranteed basis varies over time is rarely the same year-over-year and there may be extended periods of time during which no interest above the guaranteed minimum is declared.

Amounts you invest in a fixed account will not be subject to the mortality and expense risk charge. Otherwise, the policy level charges applicable to the fixed account are the same as those applicable to the variable investment accounts.

Premiums

Purchase Procedures

Generally, the policy is available with a minimum Total Sum Insured at issue of $1,000,000 and a minimum Basic Sum Insured at issue of $500,000. At the time of issue, each insured person must have an attained age of at least 20 and no more than 85. All insured persons must meet certain health and other insurance risk criteria called "underwriting standards."

Policies issued in Montana or in connection with certain employee plans will not directly reflect the sex of the insured persons in either the premium rates or the charges or values under the policy.

The Minimum Initial Premium is set forth in your policy specifications. Factors that determine the Minimum Initial Premium amount is determined based on the characteristics of each of the insured persons, the Total Sum Insured at issue and the policy options you have selected. Premium payments after the initial premium may not be required, but you must pay enough premium to keep the policy in force. That's why the policy is called a "flexible premium" policy.

If you pay premiums by check or money order, they must be drawn on a U.S. bank in U.S. dollars and made payable to "John Hancock." We will not accept credit card checks. We will not accept starter or third party checks if they fail to satisfy our administrative requirements. Premiums after the first must be sent to the John Hancock USA Service Office at the appropriate address shown on the back cover of this prospectus. We will also accept premiums by wire or by exchange from another insurance company, or via an electronic funds transfer program (any owner interested in making monthly premium payments must use this method), or if we agree to it, through a salary deduction plan with your employer.

Premium Amount

In addition to the Minimum Initial Premium, your policy specifications will also show the "Planned Premium" that you chose for the policy. You choose this amount in the policy application. You will also choose how often to pay premiums-annually, semi- annually, quarterly or monthly. The premium reminder notice we send you is based on the amount and period you choose. Payment of Planned Premiums is not necessarily required, however. You need only pay enough premium to keep the policy in force. Each premium payment must be at least $100.

The amount and frequency of the Planned Premium are determined by you, in consultation with your financial advisor, based upon your financial objectives for the policy. Depending upon the amount and timing of your actual premium payments, investment results, changing objectives and other factors, you may need to change the amount and frequency of your premium payments from the Planned Premium amount in order for the policy to continue to support your financial objectives. You may be required to pay additional premiums beyond the Planned Premium amount in order to keep your policy from lapsing. You should request in-force illustrations periodically in order to help assure that you are keeping on track with your objectives.

Federal tax law limits the amount of premium payments you can make relative to the amount of your policy's insurance coverage. Also, in order to limit our exposure to unanticipated investment risk, we may refuse to accept additional premium payments. For example, with large premium payments in an environment of decreasing interest rates, we may not be able to acquire investments for our general account that will sufficiently match the liabilities we are incurring under our fixed account guarantees. Excessive allocations may also interfere with the effective management of our variable investment accounts, if we are unable to make an orderly investment of the additional premium into the variable investment accounts. Also, we may refuse to accept or limit an amount of premium if the amount of the premium would increase our insurance risk exposure, and the insured persons don't provide us with adequate evidence that they continue to meet our requirements for issuing insurance.

We will notify you in writing of our refusal to accept premium and will promptly thereafter take the necessary steps to return the premium to you. Notwithstanding the foregoing limits on the premium that we will accept, we will not refuse to accept any premium necessary to prevent the policy from terminating or to keep the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit feature in effect.

Processing Premium Payments

We will process any premium payment as of the day we receive it, unless one of the following exceptions applies:

(1) We will process a payment received prior to a policy's Issue Date as if received on the business day immediately preceding the Issue Date.

(2) If the Minimum Initial Premium is not received prior to the Issue Date, we will process each premium payment received thereafter as if received on the business day immediately preceding the Issue Date until all of the Minimum Initial Premium is received.

(3) We will process the portion of any premium payment for which we require evidence of the insured person's continued insurability only after we have received such evidence and found it satisfactory to us.

(4) If we receive any premium payment that we think will cause a policy to become a modified endowment contract or will cause a policy to lose its status as life insurance under the tax laws, we will not accept the excess portion of that premium payment and will immediately notify the owner. We will refund the excess premium when the premium payment check has had time to clear the banking system (but in no case more than two weeks after receipt), except in the following circumstances:

• The tax problem resolves itself prior to the date the refund is to be made; or

• The tax problem relates to modified endowment contract status and we receive a signed acknowledgment from the owner prior to the refund date instructing us to process the premium notwithstanding the tax issues involved.

In the above cases, we will treat the excess premium as having been received on the date the tax problem resolves itself or the date we receive the signed acknowledgment. We will then process it accordingly.

(5) If a premium payment is received or is otherwise scheduled to be processed (as specified above) on a date that is not a business day, the premium payment will be processed on the business day next following that date.

Premium Due Dates

Either your entire policy or the Additional Sum Insured portion of your Total Sum Insured can terminate (i.e., "lapse") for failure to pay charges due under the policy. If the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit feature is in effect, only the Additional Sum Insured, if any, can lapse. If the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit feature is not in effect, the entire policy can lapse. In either case, if the policy's surrender value is not sufficient to pay the charges on a monthly deduction date, we will notify you of how much you will need to pay to keep any Additional Sum Insured or the policy in force. You will have a 61 day "grace period" to make that payment. If you don't pay at least the required amount by the end of the grace period, the Additional Sum Insured or your policy will lapse. If the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit feature is not in effect and the last surviving insured person dies during the grace period, we will deduct any unpaid monthly charges from the death benefit. During such a grace period, you cannot make a partial withdrawal or policy loan.

Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit Feature

The Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit feature is available only if the insured persons meet certain underwriting requirements and only if you've elected death benefit Option A. The feature guarantees that your Basic Sum Insured will not lapse during the first 10 policy years, regardless of adverse investment performance, if both of the following are true:

• any Additional Sum Insured under the policy is not scheduled to exceed the Basic Sum Insured at any time, and

• on each monthly deduction date during that 10 year period the amount of cumulative premiums you have paid accumulated at 4% (less all withdrawals from the policy accumulated at 4%) equals or exceeds the sum of all Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit Premiums due to date accumulated at 4%.

The Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit Premium (or "GMDB Premium") is defined in the policy and one-twelfth of it is "due" on each monthly deduction date (defined in the policy). On the application for the policy, you may elect for this feature to extend beyond the tenth policy year. If you so elect, we will impose a special charge for this feature after the tenth policy year. You may revoke the election at any time.

No GMDB Premium will ever be greater than the so-called "guideline premium" for the policy as defined in section 7702 of the Code. Also, the GMDB Premiums may change in the event of any change in the Additional Sum Insured of the policy or any change in the death benefit option. The GMDB Premium varies from policy to policy based upon a number of factors, including each insured person's issue age, insurance risk characteristics and (generally) gender.

If the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit test is not satisfied on any monthly deduction date, we will notify you immediately and tell you how much you will need to pay to keep the feature in effect. You will have 61 days after default to make that payment. If you don't pay at least the required amount by the end of that period, the feature will lapse. The feature may be

reinstated in accordance with the terms of the policy within 5 years after the monthly deduction date on which default occurred. If it is reinstated more than 1 year after such monthly deduction date, we will require evidence that the surviving insured persons still meet our requirements for issuing coverage. We may refuse to reinstate the feature more than once during the life of the policy.

The Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit feature applies only to the Basic Sum Insured. It does not apply to any amount of Additional Sum Insured. The Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit feature will cease to apply on the policy anniversary nearest the 100th birthday of the younger insured person (whether or not such insured person is then alive). Also, the feature cannot be reinstated after that policy anniversary.

If there are monthly charges that remain unpaid because of this feature, we will deduct such charges when there is sufficient surrender value to pay them.

Standard Death Benefits

Standard Death Benefits

Effectiveness and Policy Date. After you apply for a policy, we gather and evaluate all the information we need to decide whether to issue a policy to you and, if so, what each insured person's risk classification should be. After we approve an application for a policy and assign an appropriate insurance risk classification, we will prepare the policy for delivery. The policy will take effect only if all of the following conditions are satisfied:

• The policy is delivered to and received by the applicant.

• The Minimum Initial Premium is received by us.

• Each insured person is living and still meets our criteria for issuing insurance.

If all of the above conditions are satisfied, the policy will take effect on the date shown in the policy as the "Issue Date." That is the date on which we begin to take monthly deductions. Policy months, policy years and policy anniversaries are all measured from the Issue Date. Under limited circumstances, we may backdate a policy, upon request, by assigning an Issue Date that is up to 60 days earlier than the date that would otherwise apply. The most common reasons for backdating are to preserve a younger age at issue for one or both of the insured persons or to retain a common monthly deduction date in certain corporate-owned life insurance cases involving multiple policies issued over time. If used to preserve an insured person's younger age at issue, backdating will result in lower insurance charges. However, monthly deductions will begin earlier than would otherwise be the case.

Temporary insurance coverage. If a specified amount of premium is paid with the application for a policy and other conditions are met, we will provide temporary survivorship term life insurance coverage on the insured persons for a period prior to the time coverage under the policy takes effect. Such temporary survivorship term coverage will be subject to the terms and conditions described in the application for the policy, including limits on amount and duration of coverage.

Option A and Option B. When the last surviving insured person dies, we will pay the death benefit minus any outstanding loans, accrued interest and unpaid fees and charges. There are two ways of calculating the death benefit. You must choose which one you want in the application. The two death benefit options are described below.

• Option A. The death benefit will equal the greater of (1) the Total Sum Insured plus any optional extra death benefit, if elected (as described below, or (2) the minimum insurance amount (as described below).

• Option B. The death benefit will equal the greater of (1) the Total Sum Insured plus your policy's account value on the date of death of the last surviving insured person, or (2) the minimum insurance amount.

For the same premium payments, the death benefit under Option B will tend to be higher than the death benefit under Option A. On the other hand, the monthly insurance charge will be higher under Option B to compensate us for the additional insurance risk. Because of that, the account value will tend to be higher under Option A than under Option B for the same premium payments.

Optional extra death benefit. If you elect the Option A death benefit, you may also elect the optional extra death benefit feature. The optional extra death benefit is determined on each annual processing date, which is the first business day of a policy year, as follows:

• First, we multiply your account value by a factor specified in the policy. The factor is based on the age of the younger insured person.

• We will then subtract your Total Sum Insured.

Any excess is the optional extra death benefit for the remainder of that policy year. This feature may result in the Option A death benefit being higher than the minimum insurance amount. Although there is no special charge for this feature, your monthly insurance charge will be based on that higher death benefit amount. Election of this feature must be made in the application for the policy. You may revoke your election at any time, but there may be adverse tax consequences if you do.

Poor investment performance of the portfolios, expenses, and deduction of charges under the policy all will reduce the account value and net cash surrender value and may also reduce the death benefit. However, favorable investment performance may increase the account value, net cash surrender value, and death benefit. Therefore, if you experience better investment performance or lower expenses and charges than you assumed, you may be able to reduce your premium payments while

maintaining the death benefit and other values under your policy; or if you continue to pay premiums at the same level, the death benefit and other values under your policy may increase. Conversely, if the investment performance falls short of what you assumed, or the expenses or charges are higher, the death benefit and other values under your policy may decrease unless you pay additional premiums.

Base Sum Insured and Additional Sum Insured. Total Sum Insured is composed of the Basic sum Insured and any Additional Sum Insured you elect. The only limitation on how much Additional Sum Insured you can have is that it generally cannot exceed 400% of the Basic Sum Insured.

As noted above, you should consider a number of factors in determining whether to elect coverage in the form of Basic Sum Insured or in the form of Additional Sum Insured. For the same amount of premiums paid, the charges deducted from premiums and from account value and the amount of compensation paid to the selling insurance agent will generally be less if coverage is included as Additional Sum Insured, rather than as Basic Sum Insured. On the other hand, the amount of any Additional Sum Insured is not included in the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit feature. Therefore, if the policy's surrender value is insufficient to pay the monthly charges as they fall due (including the charges for the Additional Sum Insured), the Additional Sum Insured coverage will lapse, even if the Basic Sum Insured stays in effect pursuant to the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit feature.

Generally, you will incur lower sales charges and have more flexible coverage with respect to the Additional Sum Insured than with respect to the Basic Sum Insured. If this is your priority, you may wish to maximize the proportion of the Additional Sum Insured. However, if your priority is to take advantage of the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit feature, the proportion of the policy's Total Sum Insured that is guaranteed can be increased by taking out more coverage as Basic Sum Insured at the time of policy issuance. As stated earlier in this prospectus, the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit feature does not apply if the Additional Sum Insured is scheduled to exceed the Basic Sum Insured at any time. If such was the case, you would presumably wish to maximize the proportion of the Additional Sum Insured.

If you want to purchase Additional Sum Insured, you may select from among several forms of it: a level amount of coverage; an amount of coverage that increases on each policy anniversary up to a prescribed limit; an amount of coverage that increases on each policy anniversary to the amount of premiums paid during prior policy years plus the Planned Premium for the current policy year, subject to certain limits; or a combination of those forms of coverage. Any decision you make to modify the amount of Additional Sum Insured coverage after issue can have significant tax consequences.

Minimum death benefit. In order for a policy to qualify as life insurance under Federal tax law, there has to be a minimum amount of insurance in relation to account value. There are two tests that can be applied under Federal tax law-the "guideline premium and cash value corridor test" and the "cash value accumulation test."

When you elect the death benefit option, you must also elect which test you wish to have applied. As indicated above, the guideline premium and cash value corridor test is not available if the optional extra death benefit feature is elected. Under the guideline premium and cash value corridor test, we compute the minimum insurance amount each business day by multiplying the account value on that date by the death benefit factor (called "corridor factor" in the policy) applicable on that date. In this case, the factors are derived by applying the guideline premium and cash value corridor test. The factor starts out at 2.50 for ages at or below 40 and decreases as attained age increases, reaching a low of 1.0 at age 95. A table showing the factor for each age will appear in the policy. Under the cash value accumulation test, we compute the minimum insurance amount each business day by multiplying the account value on that date by the death benefit factor applicable on that date. In this case, the factors are derived by applying the cash value accumulation test. The factor decreases as attained age increases. A table showing the factor for each age will appear in the policy.

As noted above, you have to elect which test will be applied when you elect the death benefit option. The cash value accumulation test may be preferable if you want an increasing death benefit in later policy years and/or want to fund the policy at the "7 pay" limit for the full 7 years. The guideline premium and cash value corridor test may be preferable if you want the account value under the policy to increase without increasing the death benefit as quickly as might otherwise be required.

Calculation and payment of the death benefit. We will ordinarily pay any death benefit within seven days after we receive the last required form or request and any other documentation that may be required. You may choose to receive proceeds from the policy as a single sum. If no alternative payment option has been chosen, proceeds may be paid as a single sum. As permitted by state law and our current administrative procedures, death claim proceeds may be placed into an interest-bearing John Hancock retained asset account in the beneficiary's name. The interest earned in a John Hancock retained asset account is normally subject to income tax. You should consult with your tax advisor if you have any questions regarding taxation of the interest earned. We will provide the beneficiary with a checkbook, so checks may be written for all or a part of the proceeds.

The retained asset account is part of our general account and is subject to the claims of our creditors. It is not a bank account and it is not insured by the FDIC. We may receive a benefit from managing proceeds held in a retained asset account. Alternatively, you can elect to have proceeds of $1,000 or more applied to any of the other payment options we may offer at the time. You cannot choose an option if the monthly payments under the option would be less than $50. We will issue a supplementary agreement when the proceeds are applied to any alternative payment option. That agreement will spell out terms of the option in full. Please contact our Service Office for more information.

Changes you may make. Subject to certain limitations and conditions, you may request a change from death benefit Option 2 to Option 1 or a reduction in your policy's Face Amount. However, you may not request a change from Option 1 to Option 2 or a Face Amount increase.

Additional Information About Standard Death Benefits

Requesting an increase or decrease in coverage. The Basic Sum Insured generally cannot be increased after policy issue. After the first policy year, we may approve an increase in the Additional Sum Insured. However, you will have to provide us with evidence that the surviving insured persons still meet our requirements for issuing insurance coverage. An approved increase would take effect on the policy anniversary on or next following the date we approve the request.

The Basic Sum Insured generally cannot be decreased after policy issue. After the first policy year, we may approve a reduction in the Additional Sum Insured, but only if:

• the remaining Total Sum Insured will be at least $1,000,000, and

• the remaining Total Sum Insured will at least equal the minimum required by the tax laws to maintain the policy's life insurance status.

We may refuse any decrease in the Additional Sum Insured if it would cause the death benefit to reflect an increase pursuant to the optional extra death benefit feature. An approved decrease would take effect on the policy anniversary on or next following the date we approve the request.

Change of death benefit option. Changes of death benefit option are not permitted under our current administrative rules. We may be able to allow a change from Option B to Option A in the future, but that is not guaranteed. A change of death benefit option from Option B to Option A, when and if permitted by our administrative rules, would take effect on the policy anniversary on or next following the date we approve the request.

Tax consequences of coverage changes. Please read "Tax Consequences of Owning a Policy" to learn about possible tax consequences of changing your insurance coverage under the policy.

Limitations on payment of death benefit. If either insured person commits suicide within certain time periods (generally within two years from the Issue Date of the policy), the amount payable will be equal to the premiums paid, less the amount of any policy debt on the date of death, and less any withdrawals. Also, if an application misstated the age or sex of either insured person, we will adjust, if necessary, the Basic Sum Insured, any Additional Sum Insured, and every other benefit to that which would have been purchased at the correct age or sex by the most recent cost of insurance charges or as otherwise provided by your policy.

Surrenders and Withdrawals

Surrender and Withdrawal

You may surrender your policy in full at any time. If you do, we will pay you the account value less any policy debt plus, if surrender occurs in the second policy year, a refund of a certain portion of sales charges equal to 5% of premiums paid in the second policy year up to the Target Premium. This is called your "surrender value." You must return your policy when you request a full surrender. We process surrenders as of the day we receive the surrender request.

You may make a partial withdrawal of your surrender value at any time. Each partial withdrawal must be at least $1,000. There is a charge for each partial withdrawal. The charge is equal to the lesser of 2% of the withdrawal amount or $20. We will automatically reduce the account value of your policy by the amount of the withdrawal and the related charge. The amount in each variable investment and fixed accounts will be reduced in the same proportion as the account value is then allocated among them. We will not permit a partial withdrawal if it would cause your account value to fall below 3 months' worth of monthly charges. We also reserve the right to refuse any partial withdrawal that would cause the policy's Total Sum Insured to fall below $1,000,000. Any partial withdrawal (other than a Terminated ASI Withdrawal Amount, as described below) will reduce your death benefit under any of the death benefit options and under the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit feature. Under Option A, such a partial withdrawal will reduce the Total Sum Insured. Under the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit feature, such a partial withdrawal will reduce the Basic Sum Insured. A "Terminated ASI Withdrawal Amount" is any partial withdrawal made while there is an Additional Sum Insured under the policy that later lapses as described under "Lapse and Reinstatement." The total of all Terminated ASI Withdrawal Amounts cannot exceed the Additional Sum Insured in effect immediately before the Additional Sum Insured lapses.

Loans

Availability of Loans, Limitations and Interest

You may borrow from your policy at any time by completing a form satisfactory to us. However, you can't borrow from your policy during a grace period. The maximum amount you can borrow is determined as follows:

• We first determine the account value of your policy.

• We then subtract an amount equal to 12 times the monthly charges then being deducted from account value.

• We then multiply the resulting amount by 1.00% in policy years 1 through 20 and .50% thereafter.

• We then subtract the third item above from the second item above.

The minimum amount of each loan is $1,000. The interest charged on any loan is an effective annual rate of 5.00% in the first 20 policy years and 4.00% thereafter. However, we reserve the right to increase the percentage after the 20th policy year to as much as 4.50%. Accrued interest will be added to the loan daily and will bear interest at the same rate as the original loan amount. The amount of the loan is deducted from the variable investment accounts and any fixed account in the same proportion as the account value is then allocated among them and is placed in a special loan account. This special loan account will earn interest at an effective annual rate of 4.00%.

Effect of Loans on Cash Value and Death Benefit

The account value, the surrender value, and any death benefit above the Total Sum Insured are permanently affected by any loan, whether or not it is repaid in whole or in part. This is because the amount of the loan is deducted from the variable investment and fixed accounts and placed in a special loan account. The variable investment accounts or any fixed account and the special loan account will generally have different rates of investment return.

Other Effects of Loans

Taking a loan on the policy increases the risk that the policy may lapse because of the difference between the interest rate charged on the loan and the interest rate credited to the special loan account. Policy loans permanently affect the calculation of your account value and may result in adverse tax consequences. The amount of the outstanding loan (which includes accrued and unpaid interest) is subtracted from the amount otherwise payable when the policy proceeds become payable. Whenever the outstanding loan exceeds your account value, the policy will terminate 31 days after we have mailed notice of termination to you (and to any assignee of record at such assignee's last known address) specifying the minimum amount that must be paid to avoid termination, unless a repayment of at least the amount specified is made within that period.

The tax consequences of a loan interest credited differential of 0% are unclear. You should consult a tax adviser before effecting a loan to evaluate possible tax consequences. If we determine that a loan will be treated as a distribution from your policy because of the differential between the loan interest rate and the rate being credited on the special loan account, we reserve the right to increase the rate charged on the loan to a rate that would, in our reasonable judgment, result in the transaction being treated as a loan under Federal tax law. The right to increase the rate charged on the loan is restricted in some states.

Loan Repayments

You can repay all or part of a loan at any time. Each repayment will be allocated among the accounts as set out below.

• The repayment will be applied to the policy value by transferring amounts from the loan account to the other accounts as follows:

• First, an amount will be transferred to the fixed account that is equal to the remaining loan repayment multiplied by the ratio of the amount borrowed from the fixed account divided by the sum of the amounts borrowed from the fixed account and the variable investment accounts, if any.

• The remainder of the repayment, if any, will be allocated among the accounts in the same way a new premium payment would be allocated (unless otherwise specified by you).

Other Benefits Available Under the Policy

In addition to the standard death benefits associated with your policy, other standard and/or optional benefits may also be available to you. The following tables summarize information about those benefits. Information about the fees associated with each benefit included in the tables may be found in the FEE TABLE. 

STANDARD BENEFITS
Name of Benefit	Purpose	Brief Description of Restrictions/Limitations
Dollar cost averaging	Under the dollar cost averaging program, you will designate an amount that will be transferred monthly from one variable investment account into any other variable investment account or a fixed account.	We reserve the right to cease to offer this program after written notice to you.
Asset allocation balancing	Under the asset allocation balancer program, you will designate a percentage allocation of account value among variable investment accounts. We will automatically transfer amounts among the variable investment accounts at intervals you select (annually, semi-annually, quarterly, or monthly) to reestablish your chosen allocation.	We reserve the right to cease this program after written notice to you.

 

OPTIONAL BENEFITS
Name of Benefit	Purpose	Brief Description of Restrictions/Limitations
Enhanced Cash Value Rider	Provides an enhancement in cash surrender value.	This rider can only be elected at the time of application for the policy.
Policy Split Option Rider	Gives the owner the option to split the Total Sum Insured evenly into two separate policies, one for each insured person, but only if the insured persons get divorced or certain Federal tax law changes occur.	The rider will automatically terminate upon the death of either insured person.

More About Certain Optional Benefits

When you apply for a policy, you can request any of the optional supplementary benefit riders that we then make available. Availability of any rider, the benefits it provides and the charges for it may vary by state. Our rules and procedures will govern eligibility for any rider and, in some cases, the configuration of the actual rider benefits. Each rider contains specific details that you should review before you decide to choose the rider. You may request an example illustrating the operation of any of the following optional supplementary benefit riders by contacting the Service Office at 1-800-448-1616. Charges for most riders will be deducted from the account value. We may change these charges (or the rates that determine them), but not above any applicable maximum amount stated in your policy specifications. We may add to, delete from or modify the list of optional supplementary benefit riders.

• Enhanced Cash Value Rider. In the application for the policy, you may elect to purchase the Enhanced Cash Value Rider. This rider provides an enhanced cash value benefit (in addition to the surrender value) if you surrender the policy within the first nine policy years. The amount of the benefit will be shown in the policy specifications section of the policy. The benefit is also included in the account value when calculating the death benefit. Election of this rider could increase your insurance charge since it affects our AAR under the policy. The amount available for partial withdrawals and loans are based on the surrender value and will in no way be increased due to this rider.

• Policy Split Option Rider. At the time of policy issue, you may elect this rider that will permit the Total Sum Insured to be evenly split into two separate policies, one for each insured person, but only if the insured persons get divorced or certain Federal tax law changes occur. The rider may be canceled at any time and it will automatically terminate on the date of death of the first insured person to die or on the policy anniversary nearest the older insured person's 80th birthday, whichever is earlier. A policy split could have adverse tax consequences, so check with your tax adviser before electing this rider.

Example: Assume that your policy's face amount is $1,000,000. Upon divorce, each of the lives insured may be issued a single life policy with a face amount of $500,000, at which point the original policy covering both lives will be terminated.

Taxes

Tax Consequences of Owning a Policy

Tax consequences will vary based on your own particular circumstances, and for further information you should consult a qualified tax adviser. This material does not constitute tax or legal advice and neither John Hancock USA nor any of its agents, employees or registered representatives are in the business of offering such advice.

Federal, state and local tax laws, regulations and interpretations can change from time to time. As a result, the tax consequences to you and the beneficiary may be altered, in some cases retroactively. The policy may be used in various arrangements, including non- qualified deferred compensation or salary continuation plans, split dollar insurance plans, executive bonus plans, retiree medical benefit plans and others. The tax consequences of such plans may vary depending on the particular facts and circumstances of each individual arrangement. Therefore, if the value of using the policy in any such arrangement depends in part on the tax consequences, a qualified tax adviser should be consulted for advice.

Generally, death benefits paid under policies such as yours are not subject to income tax unless policy ownership has been transferred in exchange for payment. Earnings on your account value are ordinarily not subject to income tax as long as we don't pay them out to you. If we do distribute any amount of your account value, all or part of that distribution would generally be treated as a return of the premiums you've paid and not subjected to income tax. Any portion not treated as a return of your premiums would be includible in your income.

Distributions for tax purposes include amounts received upon surrender or partial withdrawals and may include the charges for certain supplementary benefit riders as described below. You may also be deemed to have received a distribution for tax purposes if you assign all or part of your policy rights or change your policy's ownership. Amounts you borrow are generally not taxable to you. If you use policy value to pay down a policy loan, the amount so applied will be treated as a distribution.

Please note that certain distributions associated with a reduction in death benefit or other policy benefits within the first fifteen years after issuance of the policy are ordinarily taxable in whole or in part.

Some of the tax rules change if your policy becomes a modified endowment contract. This can happen if you've paid premiums in excess of limits prescribed by the tax laws. In that case, additional taxes and penalties may be payable for policy distributions of any kind, including loans.

We expect the policy to receive the same Federal income and estate tax treatment as fixed benefit life insurance policies. Section 7702 of the Internal Revenue Code (the "Code") defines a life insurance contract for Federal tax purposes. For a policy to be treated as a life insurance contract, it must satisfy either the cash value accumulation test or the guideline premium test. We will monitor compliance with these standards. If we determine that a policy does not satisfy the definition of life insurance under section 7702, we may take whatever steps are appropriate and reasonable to bring it into compliance with section 7702.

It is possible that, despite our monitoring, a policy might fail to qualify as a life insurance contract under section 7702 of the Code. This could happen, for example, if we inadvertently failed to return to you any premium payments that were in excess of amounts permitted under section 7702, or if any of the funds failed to meet certain investment diversification or other requirements of the Code. If this were to occur, you would be subject to income tax on the income credited to the policy from the date of issue to the date of the disqualification and for subsequent periods. If the policy complies with section 7702, the death benefit proceeds under the policy ordinarily should be excludible from the beneficiary's gross income under section 101 of the Code. (As noted above, a transfer of the policy for valuable consideration may limit the exclusion of death benefits from the beneficiary's income.)

Tax consequences of ownership or receipt of policy proceeds under Federal, state and local estate, inheritance, gift and other tax laws will depend on the circumstances of each owner or beneficiary. If the person insured by the policy is also its owner, either directly or indirectly through an entity such as a revocable trust, the death benefit will be includible in his or her estate for purposes of the Federal estate tax. Even if ownership has been transferred, the death proceeds or the policy value may be includible in the former owner's estate if the transfer occurred less than three years before the former owner's death or if the former owner retained certain kinds of control over the policy. If the owner is not the person insured, the value of the policy will be includible in the owner's estate upon his or her death. You should consult your tax adviser regarding these possible tax consequences.

Increases in account value as a result of interest or investment experience will not be subject to Federal income tax unless and until values are received through actual or deemed distributions. In general, unless the policy is a modified endowment contract, the owner will be taxed only on the amount of distributions that exceed the premiums paid under the policy. An exception to this general rule occurs in the case of a decrease in the policy's death benefit or any other change that reduces benefits under the policy in the first fifteen years after the policy is issued and that results in a cash distribution to the policy owner. Changes that reduce benefits include partial withdrawals and reductions in face amount that result in a distribution that is required to keep the policy in compliance with section 7702. For purposes of this rule any distribution within the two years immediately before a reduction in benefits will also be treated as if it were a result of the reduction. A cash distribution that reduces policy benefits will be taxed in whole or in part (to the extent of any gain in the policy) under rules prescribed in section 72(e) of the Code. The taxable amount is subject to limits prescribed in section 7702(f)(7). Any taxable distribution will be ordinary income to the owner (rather than capital gain).

Tax Consequences of Electing Certain Supplementary Benefit Riders

Cash value enhancement riders. If you have elected the Enhanced Cash Value Rider, we will not treat the rider charge as a distribution from your life insurance policy for federal income tax purposes; however, such charge will reduce your investment in the policy.

Policy Split Option Rider. If you have elected the Policy Split Option Rider, we will treat the rider charge as a distribution from your life insurance policy for federal income tax purposes. Therefore, such charges may be includible in your taxable income if your policy is a modified endowment contract or if your investment in the contract has been reduced to zero.

Effect on the Company's Taxes

We are taxed as a life insurance company. Under current tax law rules, we include the investment income (exclusive of capital gains) of the Separate Account in our taxable income and take deductions for investment income credited to our policy holder reserves. We are also required to capitalize and amortize certain costs instead of deducting those costs when they are incurred. We do not currently charge the Separate Account for any resulting income tax costs, other than a charge we may impose against the Separate Account to compensate us for the cost of a delay in the deductibility of deferred acquisition costs (the "DAC tax" adjustment) pursuant to section 848 of the Code. We also claim certain tax credits or deductions relating to foreign taxes paid and dividends received by the series funds. These benefits can be material. We do not pass these benefits through to the Separate Account, principally because: (i) the deductions and credits are allowed to us and not the policy owners under applicable tax law; and (ii) the deductions and credits do not represent investment return on the Separate Account assets that is passed through to policy owners.

The policies permit us to deduct a charge for any taxes we incur that are attributable to the operation or existence of the policies or the Separate Account. Currently, we do not anticipate making any specific charge for such taxes other than any DAC tax charge and premium taxes where applicable. If the level of the current taxes increases, however, or is expected to increase in the future, we reserve the right to make a charge in the future.

Principal Risks of Investing In the Policy

Lapse Risk

If the account value of your policy is insufficient to pay the charges when due and the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit feature is not in effect, your policy can terminate (i.e., "lapse"). For example, this can happen because you haven't paid enough premium, because the performance of the variable investment or general account options you've chosen has been poor, or because of a combination of both factors. Since withdrawals and policy charges reduce your account value, these also increase the risk of lapse. Policy loans also increase the risk of lapse. There is no guarantee that your policy will not lapse even if you pay your planned premium.

Investment Risk/Risk of Loss

The policy offers a number of variable investment accounts, as listed in the APPENDIX. The investment performance of any variable investment account may be good or bad, and you may lose money on amounts you invest in a policy. Your account value will increase or decrease based on the investment performance of the variable investment accounts you've chosen. The variable investment accounts cover a broad spectrum of investment styles and strategies, some variable investment accounts are riskier than others. These risks (and potential rewards) are discussed in detail in the prospectuses of the portfolios. The death benefit may also increase or decrease with investment experience.

An investment in a policy is also subject to risks related to John Hancock USA, including that the obligations (including under the fixed account option), guarantees, or benefits are subject to the claims-paying ability of John Hancock USA. Information about John Hancock USA, including its financial strength ratings, is available upon request from your John Hancock USA representative. Our current financial strength ratings can also be obtained by contacting the Service Office at 1-800-448-1616.

Transfer Risk

There is a risk that you will not be able to transfer your account value from one variable investment account to another because of limitations on the dollar amount or frequency of transfers you can make. The limitations on transfers out of the fixed account are more restrictive than those that apply to transfers out of variable investment accounts. If you purchase certain supplementary benefit riders you will be subject to special transfer restrictions.

To discourage market timing and disruptive trading activity, we impose restrictions on transfers and reserve the right to change, suspend or terminate telephone, facsimile and internet transaction privileges. While we seek to identify and prevent disruptive trading activity, it may not always be possible to do so. Therefore, no assurance can be given that the restrictions we impose will be successful in preventing all disruptive trading and avoiding harm to long term investors.

Early Surrender or Withdrawal Risk/ Not a Short-Term Investment

This policy is not a short-term investment and is not appropriate for an investor who needs ready access to cash. There is a fee for each partial withdrawal. Depending on the account value at the time you are considering surrender, there may be little or no surrender value payable to you.

Tax Risks

In order for you to receive the tax benefits extended to life insurance under the Code, your policy must comply with certain requirements of the Code. We will monitor your policy for compliance with these requirements, but a policy might fail to qualify as life insurance in spite of our monitoring, which can have adverse tax consequences. If the policy were determined not to qualify as life insurance under the Code, you would be taxed on any income or gains those assets generate. In other words, you would lose the value of the so-called "tax-deferred inside build-up" that is a major benefit of life insurance.

There is a tax risk associated with policy loans. Although no part of a loan is treated as income to you when the loan is made unless your policy is a "modified endowment contract," surrender or lapse of the policy with a loan outstanding would result in the loan being treated as a distribution at the time of lapse or surrender. This could result in a considerable tax bill. Under certain circumstances involving large amounts of outstanding loans and insured persons of advanced age, you might find yourself having to choose between high premium requirements to keep your policy from lapsing and a significant tax burden if you allow the lapse to occur.

Tax consequences of ownership or receipt of policy proceeds (including surrender or withdrawal proceeds) under Federal, state and local estate, inheritance, gift and other tax laws can vary greatly depending upon the circumstances of each owner or beneficiary. There can also be unfavorable tax consequences on such things as the change of policy ownership or assignment of ownership interests. For these and all the other reasons mentioned above, we recommend you consult with a qualified tax adviser before buying the policy and before exercising certain rights under the policy.

There are tax risks associated with the election of certain supplementary benefit riders (see "Tax Consequences of Electing Certain Supplementary Benefit Riders").

Cybersecurity Risks

Our business and operations are highly dependent upon the effective operation of our computer systems and those of our third-party business partners. As a result, there are potential operational and information security risks associated with attack, damage, or unauthorized access to the technologies and systems on which our business depends. These risks include, among other things, the unauthorized access, theft, loss, misuse, corruption, and destruction of data maintained online or digitally, denial of service on websites and other operational disruption, and unauthorized release of confidential customer information. Cyber-attacks affecting us, any third-party administrator, the underlying portfolios, intermediaries, and other affiliated or third-party service providers may adversely affect us and your policy value. For instance, cyber-attacks may interfere with the processing of actions taken on your policy, including the processing of transactions and orders from our website or with the underlying portfolios, impact our ability to calculate unit values or an underlying portfolio to calculate a net asset value, or cause the release and possible destruction of confidential customer or business information. Cybersecurity risks may also impact the issuers of securities in which the underlying portfolios invest, which may cause the portfolios underlying your policy to lose value. While measures have been implemented that are designed to reduce cybersecurity risks, there can be no guarantee or assurance that we, the underlying portfolios, or our service providers will not suffer losses affecting your policy due to cyber-attacks or information security breaches in the future.

Additional Information Regarding the Policy

Charges

Under the policies, we deduct the charges discussed immediately below under "Deductions from premium payments" and "Deductions from account value." Although the Fee Table in this prospectus provides disclosure about the maximum rates we are permitted to charge, we currently deduct some of the charges at less than those maximum rates. As a general matter, however, we also are permitted to increase or decrease the rate at which we are deducting any charge, provided that the rate can never exceed the maximum set forth in your policy (including in any applicable supplementary benefit rider) and as disclosed in the Fee Table. By contacting the John Hancock USA Service Office or your John Hancock USA representative at any time, you can obtain information about the then-current rate of any charges that are applicable to your particular circumstances and/or obtain a personalized illustration that will demonstrate the manner in which those specific current charges impact the values under your policy.

Deductions from premium payments.

Premium charge. A charge to cover state premium taxes we currently expect to pay, on average. This charge is currently 2.35% of each premium.

DAC tax charge. A charge to cover the increased Federal income tax burden that we currently expect will result from receipt of premiums. This charge is currently 1.25% of each premium.

Premium processing charge. A charge to help defray our administrative costs. This charge is 1.25% of each premium. For policies with a Total Sum Insured of $5 million or more, this charge will be reduced to as low as .50%.

Sales charge. A charge to help defray our sales costs. The charge for premiums paid in the first policy year is 30% of premiums paid up to the Target Premium, and 3.5% of premiums paid in excess of the Target Premium. The charge for premiums paid after the first policy year up to the Target Premium is 15% in policy years 2 through 5, 10% in policy years 6 through 10, up to 4% (currently 3%) in policy years 11 through 20, and up to 3% (currently 0%) thereafter. The charge for premiums paid after the first policy year in excess of the Target Premium is 3.5% in policy years 2 through 10, 3% in policy years 11 through 20, and up to 3% (currently 0%) thereafter. If the younger of the insured persons is age 71 or older when the policy is issued, there will be no sales charges deducted from premiums paid after the eleventh policy year. Because policies of this type were first offered in 2002, the foregoing waiver and the lower current rates after policy year 10 are not yet applicable to any policy. The "Target Premium" is determined at the time the policy is issued and will appear in the policy specifications.

Enhanced Cash Value Rider charge. A charge imposed if you elect this rider. It is deducted only from premiums received in the first policy year. The charge is 2% of premiums paid in the first policy year up to the Target Premium.

Deductions from account value.

Issue charge. A monthly charge to help defray our administrative costs. This charge has two parts: (1) a flat dollar amount of $55.55 deducted only during the first five policy years, and (2) a charge of 2¢ per $1,000 of Total Sum Insured at issue that is deducted only during the first three policy years. The second part of this monthly charge is guaranteed not to exceed $200.

Administrative charge. A monthly charge to help defray our administrative costs. This charge also has two parts: (1) a flat dollar charge of up to $10 (currently $7.50), and (2) a charge of 3¢ per $1,000 of Total Sum Insured at issue (currently 1¢ per $1,000 of Total Sum Insured at issue deducted only during the first ten policy years). However, for policies with a Total Sum Insured at issue of $5 million or more, the first part of this charge is currently zero.

Insurance charge. A monthly charge for the cost of insurance. To determine the charge, we multiply the AAR by a cost of insurance rate. The table in your policy will show the maximum cost of insurance rates. The cost of insurance rates that we currently apply are generally less than the maximum rates, and the current rates will never be more than the maximum rates shown in the policy. The amount that we are at risk is affected by the death benefit option selected (Option A vs. Option B), the death benefit amount (including any minimum death benefit) and the account value, which is affected by, among other things, premium payments, investment performance and charges. The cost of insurance rates we use will depend on a number of factors, including the insurance risk characteristics and (usually) gender of each of the insured persons, the Total Sum Insured and the length of time the policy has been in effect. The cost of insurance rate generally increases each year that you own your policy, as the insured persons' ages increase. The insurance charge is not affected by the death of the first insured person to die.

M&E charge. A daily charge for mortality and expense risks we assume. This charge is deducted from the variable investment accounts. It does not apply to any fixed account. We guarantee that this charge will never exceed an effective annual rate of .05%. The effective annual rate will vary depending upon the Total Sum Insured at issue. The current charge levels are as follows: .625% for a Total Sum Insured of at least $500,000 but less than $5 million, .575% for a Total Sum Insured of at least $5 million but less than $15 million, and .525% for a Total Sum Insured of $15 million or more.

Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit charge. A monthly charge beginning in the eleventh policy year if the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit feature is elected to extend beyond the first ten policy years. This charge is currently 1¢ per $1,000 of Basic Sum Insured and is guaranteed not to exceed 3¢ per $1,000 of Basic Sum Insured.

Supplementary benefit rider charges. A charge for any supplementary insurance benefits added to the policy by means of a rider. Maximum charges for the various riders are shown in the Fee Table above under "Transaction Fees" or "Periodic Charges Other than Annual Portfolio Expenses," as appropriate. These charges are also specified in the rider's provisions or the policy specifications. You can obtain information about the specific charges applicable to you from your John Hancock USA representative.

Loan interest charge. We will charge interest on any amount you borrow from your policy. The interest charged on any loan is an effective annual rate of 5.00% in the first 20 policy years and 4.50% for policy year 21 and thereafter (although we reserve the right to increase the rate after the twentieth policy year to as much as 4.50%).

Partial withdrawal charge. A charge for each partial withdrawal of account value to compensate us for the administrative expenses of processing the withdrawal. The charge is equal to the lesser of 2% of the withdrawal amount or $20.

Charges at the portfolio level. The portfolios must pay investment management fees and other operating expenses from portfolio assets. These fees and expenses are different for each portfolio and reduce the investment return of each portfolio. Therefore, they also indirectly reduce the return you will earn on any variable investment accounts you select. Expenses of the portfolios are not fixed or specified under the terms of the policy, and those expenses may vary from year to year. See APPENDIX.

Additional Information About How Certain Policy Charges Work

The sales charges help to compensate us for the cost of selling our policies. The amount of the charges in any policy year does not specifically correspond to sales expenses for that year. We expect to recover our total sales expenses over the life of the policies. To the extent that the sales charges do not cover total sales expenses, the sales expenses may be recovered from other sources, including gains from the charge mortality and expense risks and other gains with respect to the policies, or from our general assets. Similarly, administrative expenses not fully recovered by the premium processing, issue and administrative charge may also be recovered from such other sources.

We deduct the monthly charges described in the Fee Tables section from your policy's variable investment accounts and any fixed account in proportion to the amount of account value you have in each. For each month that we cannot deduct any charge because of insufficient account value, the uncollected charges will accumulate and be deducted when and if sufficient account value becomes available.

The insurance under the policy continues in full force during any grace period but, if the last surviving insured person dies during the policy grace period, the amount of unpaid monthly charges is deducted from the death benefit otherwise payable.

Effect of premium payment pattern. You may structure the timing and amount of premium payments to minimize the sales charges, although doing so involves certain risks. Paying less than one Target Premium in the first policy year or paying more than one Target Premium in any policy year could reduce your total sales charges over time. For example, if the Target Premium was $10,000 and you paid a premium of $10,000 in each of the first ten policy years, you would pay total sales charges of $14,000. If you paid $20,000 (i.e., two times the Target Premium amount) in every other policy year up to and including the ninth policy year, you would pay total sales charges of only $9,750. However, delaying the payment of Target Premiums to later policy years could increase the risk that the guaranteed minimum death benefit feature will lapse and the account value will be insufficient to pay monthly policy charges as they come due. As a result, the policy or any Additional Sum Insured may lapse and eventually terminate. Conversely, accelerating the payment of Target Premiums to earlier policy years could cause aggregate premiums paid to exceed the policy's 7-pay premium limit and, as a result, cause the policy to become a modified endowment contract, with adverse tax consequences to you upon receipt of policy distributions.

Other Charges We Could Impose in the Future

Except for the DAC tax charge, we currently make no specific charge for our Federal income taxes. However, if we incur, or expect to incur, income taxes attributable to any subaccount of the Separate Account or this class of policies in future years, we reserve the right to make a charge for such taxes. Any such charge would reduce what you earn on any affected accounts. However, we expect that no such charge will be necessary.

We also reserve the right to increase the premium tax and the DAC tax charge in order to correspond, respectively, with changes in the state premium tax levels or in the Federal income tax treatment of the deferred acquisition costs for this type of policy. Premium taxes vary by jurisdiction and are subject to change.

Under current laws, we may incur state and local taxes (in addition to premium taxes) in several states. Currently, premium tax levels range from 0 - 3.5%. If there is a material change in applicable state or local tax laws, we may make charges for such taxes.

Our right to increase any charge up to the maximum rate shown in the policy specifications applies to then outstanding policies, as well as to policies issued after the increase.

Commissions Paid to Dealers

We pay compensation to broker-dealers for the promotion and sale of the policies, and for providing ongoing service in relation to policies that have already been purchased. We may also pay a limited number of broker-dealers commissions or overrides to "wholesale" the policies; that is, to provide marketing support and training services to the broker-dealer firms that do the actual selling. The compensation paid to broker-dealers may vary depending on the selling agreement. The compensation paid is not expected to exceed the following schedule: policy year 1, 73.25% of the premium paid up to the first tier, 20.5% of the premium paid up to the second tier, if any, and 6.0% of any excess premium paid; policy years 2-5, 14.5% of the premium paid up to the first tier, 11.25% of the premium paid up to the second tier, if any, and 4.75% of any excess premium paid; policy years 6-10, 8.5% of the premium paid up to the first tier, 6.0% of the premium paid up to the second tier, if any, and 4.5% of any excess premium paid; and policy years 11+, 3.0% of all premiums paid. This compensation schedule is exclusive of additional compensation and revenue sharing and inclusive of overrides and expense allowances paid to broker-dealers for sale of the policies (not including riders). Under their own arrangements, broker-dealers determine how much of any amounts received from us is to be paid to their registered representatives.

To the extent permitted by SEC and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA") rules and other applicable laws and regulations, we may enter into special compensation or reimbursement arrangements ("revenue sharing"), either directly or through JH Distributors, with selected broker-dealers and other financial intermediaries. In consideration of these arrangements, a firm may feature our policy in its sales system, give us preferential access to sales staff, or allow JH Distributors or its affiliates to participate in conferences, seminars or other programs attended by the firm's sales force. We hope to benefit from these revenue sharing and other arrangements through increased sales of our policies.

Selling broker-dealers and other financial intermediaries may receive, directly or indirectly, additional payments in the form of cash, other compensation or reimbursement. These additional compensation or reimbursement arrangements may include, for example, payments in connection with the firm's "due diligence" examination of the policies, payments for providing conferences or seminars, sales or training programs for invited registered representatives and other employees, payment for travel expenses, including lodging, incurred by registered representatives and other employees for such seminars or training programs, seminars for the public or client seminars, advertising and sales campaigns regarding the policies, payments to assist a firm in connection with its systems, operations and marketing expenses and/or other events or activities sponsored by the firms. We may contribute to, as well as sponsor, various educational programs, sales promotions, and/or other contests in which participating firms and their sales persons may receive gifts and prizes such as merchandise, cash or other rewards as may be permitted under FINRA rules and other applicable laws and regulations.

You should contact your registered representative for more information on compensation arrangements in connection with your purchase of a policy. We provide additional information on special compensation or reimbursement arrangements involving broker- dealers and other financial intermediaries in the Statement of Additional Information (the "SAI").

Lapse and Reinstatement

Unless the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit feature is in effect, your policy (or part of it) can terminate (i.e., "lapse") if the account value of your policy is insufficient to pay the charges when due. Therefore, a policy could lapse eventually if increases in account value (prior to deduction of policy charges) are not sufficient to cover policy charges. See "Premium Due Dates" above.

If your policy lapses, all coverage under the policy will cease. Even if the policy or the Additional Sum Insured terminates in this way, you can still reactivate (i.e., "reinstate") it within 1 year from the beginning of the grace period. You will have to provide evidence that the surviving insured persons still meet our requirements for issuing coverage. You will also have to pay a minimum amount of premium and be subject to the other terms and conditions applicable to reinstatements, as specified in the policy.

Generally, the suicide exclusion and incontestability provisions will apply from the effective date of reinstatement. A surrendered policy cannot be reinstated.

Variations

Insurance laws and regulations apply to us in every state in which our policies are sold. As a result, terms and conditions of your insurance coverage may vary depending on where you purchase a policy, and certain riders and options may not be available due to state insurance laws or restrictions in the state in which the policy is issued. You should refer to your policy for these state specific features.

We may vary the charges and other terms of our policies where special circumstances result in sales or administrative expenses, mortality risks or other risks that are different from those normally associated with the policies, subject to the maximum charges described in this prospectus. For example, with respect to policies issued to a class of associated individuals or to a trustee, employer or similar entity where we anticipate that the sales to the members of the class will result in lower than normal sales or administrative expenses, lower taxes or lower risks to us, we may offer the policies with reduced charges or with additional or enhanced features or benefits. We will make these programs available in accordance with our established administrative procedures in effect at the time of the application for a policy. The factors we consider in determining the eligibility of a particular group for such a program are: (i) the nature of the association and its organizational framework; (ii) the method by which sales will be made to the members of the class; (iii) the facility with which premiums will be collected from the associated individuals and the association's capabilities with respect to administrative tasks; (iv) the anticipated lapse and surrender rates of the policies; (v) the size of the class of associated individuals and the number of years it has been in existence; (vi) the aggregate amount of premiums paid; and (vii) any other such circumstances which result in a reduction in sales or administrative expenses, lower taxes or lower risks. Any reduction in charges or feature or benefit enhancement will be reasonable and will apply uniformly to all prospective policy investors in the class and will not unfairly discriminate against any owner.

Policy or Separate Account Changes

We reserve the right to make any changes in the policy necessary to ensure the policy is within the definition of life insurance under the Federal tax laws and is in compliance with any changes in Federal or state tax laws.

In our policies, we reserve the right to make certain changes if they would serve the best interests of policy owners or would be appropriate in carrying out the purposes of the policies. These changes include the following:

• Changes necessary to comply with or obtain or continue exemptions under the Federal securities laws

• Adding or removing fixed accounts or variable investment accounts

• Combining variable investment accounts

• Closing the variable investment accounts to new allocations or transfers

• Changes in the form of organization of any separate account

Any such changes will be made only to the extent permitted by applicable laws and only in the manner permitted by such laws. When required by law, we will obtain your approval of the changes and the approval of any appropriate regulatory authority.

We also reserve the right, subject to compliance with applicable law, including approval of owners if so required, (1) to transfer assets determined by John Hancock USA to be associated with the class of policies to which your policy belongs from the Separate Account to another separate account or subaccount, (2) to deregister the Separate Account under the 1940 Act, (3) to substitute for the fund shares held by a subaccount any other investment permitted by law, and (4) to take any action necessary to comply with or obtain any exemptions from the 1940 Act. Any such change will be made only if, in our judgment, the change would best serve the interests of owners of policies in your policy class or would be appropriate in carrying out the purposes of such policies. We would notify owners of any of the foregoing changes and to the extent legally required, obtain approval of affected owners and any regulatory body prior thereto. Such notice and approval, however, may not be legally required in all cases.

When We Pay Policy Proceeds

We will ordinarily pay any death benefit, withdrawal, surrender value or loan within seven days after we receive the last required form or request (and, with respect to the death benefit, any other documentation that may be required). You may choose to receive proceeds from the policy as a single sum. If no alternative payment option has been chosen, proceeds may be paid as a single sum. As permitted by state law and our current administrative procedures, death claim proceeds may be placed into an interest-bearing John Hancock retained asset account in the beneficiary's name. The interest earned in a John Hancock retained asset account is normally subject to income tax. You should consult with your tax advisor if you have any questions regarding taxation of the interest earned. We will provide the beneficiary with a checkbook, so checks may be written for all or a part of the proceeds. The retained asset account is part of our general account and is subject to the claims of our creditors. It is not a bank account and it is not insured by the FDIC. We may receive a benefit from managing proceeds held in a retained asset account. Alternatively, you can elect to have proceeds of $1,000 or more applied to any of the other payment options we may offer at the time. You cannot choose an option if the monthly payments under the option would be less than $50. We will issue a supplementary agreement when the proceeds are applied to any alternative payment option. That agreement will spell out terms of the option in full. Please contact our Service Office for more information.

We reserve the right to defer payment of that portion of your account value that is attributable to a premium payment made by check for a reasonable period of time (not to exceed fifteen days) to allow the check to clear the banking system. We will not delay payment longer than necessary for us to verify a check has cleared the banking system.

We reserve the right to defer payment of any death benefit, loan or other distribution that is derived from a variable investment account if (1) the NYSE is closed (other than customary weekend and holiday closings) or trading on the NYSE is restricted; (2) an emergency exists, as determined by the SEC, as a result of which disposal of securities is not reasonably practicable or it is not reasonably practicable to fairly determine the account value; or (3) the SEC by order permits the delay for the protection of owners. Transfers and allocations of account value among the variable investment accounts may also be postponed under these circumstances. If we need to defer calculation of separate account values for any of the foregoing reasons, all delayed transactions will be processed at the next values that we do compute.

State law allows us to defer payment of any portion of the surrender value derived from the fixed account for up to six months. These laws were enacted many years ago to help insurance companies in the event of a liquidity crisis.

When the Younger Insured Person Reaches 100

If the policy is still in effect on the policy anniversary nearest the 100th birthday of the younger of the two insured persons, the following things will happen whether or not the younger insured person is actually alive on that policy anniversary:

• We will stop deducting any monthly charges and will stop accepting any premium payments.

• The death benefit will become equal to the account value on the date of death. Death benefit Options A and B (as described above) and the guaranteed minimum death benefit feature will all cease to apply.

General Description of Registrant, Depositor and Portfolios

Depositor

Your policy is issued by John Hancock Life Insurance Company (U.S.A), 200 Berkeley St., Boston, MA 02116.

Registrant

The "registrant" of the policies with the SEC is the John Hancock Variable Life Account UV, a separate account operated by us under Michigan law (the "Separate Account"). Each subaccount of the Separate Account invest its assets in one of the portfolios shown in the APPENDIX.

The Separate Account's assets are our property. Each policy provides that amounts we hold in the Separate Account pursuant to the policies cannot be reached by any other persons who may have claims against us and can't be used to pay any obligations of John Hancock USA other than those arising out of policies that use the Separate Account. Income, gains and losses credited to, or charged against, the Separate Account reflect the Separate Account's own investment experience and not the investment experience of John Hancock USA's other assets. All obligations under the policies (including under any fixed account option), guarantees, or benefits are obligations of John Hancock USA and are subject to its claims paying ability.

We normally compute account values for each business day as of the close of the NYSE on that day (usually 4:00 p.m. Eastern time). In case of emergency or other disruption resulting in the NYSE closing at a time other than the regularly scheduled close, the close of our business day may be the regularly scheduled close of the NYSE or another time permitted by the SEC and applicable regulations. Over time, the amount you've invested in any variable investment account will increase or decrease the same as if you had invested the same amount directly in the corresponding portfolio and had reinvested all of that portfolio's dividends and distributions in additional portfolio shares, except that we will deduct certain additional charges which will reduce your account value. We describe these charges under "Charges at the portfolio level."

Portfolios

Information regarding each portfolio, including (i) its name; (ii) its investment objective; (iii) its investment adviser and any sub- investment adviser; (iv) current expenses; and (v) performance is available in the APPENDIX to this prospectus. Each portfolio has issued a prospectus that contains more detailed information about the portfolio. You can obtain the prospectus (hard copy or electronic) and additional information about any portfolio, at the addresses or phone number set forth in the first paragraph of the APPENDIX. On each business day, shares of each series are purchased or redeemed by us for each subaccount based on, among other things, the amount of net premiums allocated to the subaccount, distributions reinvested, and transfers to, from and among subaccounts, all to be effected as of that date. Such purchases and redemptions are effected at each series fund's net asset value per share determined for that same date. A "business day" is any date on which the NYSE is open for trading.

We will purchase and redeem series fund shares for the Separate Account at their net asset value without any sales or redemption charges. Shares of a series fund represent an interest in one of the funds of the series fund which corresponds to a subaccount of the Separate Account. Any dividend or capital gains distributions received by the Separate Account will be reinvested in shares of that same fund at their net asset value as of the dates paid. We normally calculate the unit values for each variable investment account once every business day as of the close of that day, usually 4:00 p.m. Eastern time. Sales and redemptions within any variable investment account will be transacted using the unit value calculated as follows after we receive your request either in writing or other form that we specify. If we receive your request before the close of our business day, we'll use the unit value calculated as of the end of that business day. If we receive your request at or after the close of our business day, we'll use the unit value calculated as of the end of the next business day. If a scheduled transaction falls on a day that is not a business day, we'll process it as of the end of the next business day.

Voting Portfolio Shares

We will vote all portfolio shares that we hold in the Separate Account for policy owners in proportion to instructions timely received by us from policy owners from all our Separate Accounts that are registered with the SEC under the 1940 Act. We will vote all portfolio shares that we otherwise are entitled to vote (including our own shares and other shares for which we receive no instructions) on any matter in proportion to the instructions timely received by us and any affiliated insurance companies with respect to the matter from policy owners in separate accounts of these insurance companies that are registered

with the SEC under the 1940 Act. The effect of this proportional voting is that a small number of policy owners can determine the outcome of a vote. The voting privileges described above reflect our understanding of applicable Federal securities law requirements. To the extent that applicable law, regulations or interpretations change to eliminate or restrict the need for such voting privileges, we reserve the right to proceed in accordance with any such revised requirements.

We will determine the number of portfolio shares for which voting instructions may be given not more than 90 days prior to the meeting. Proxy material will be distributed to each person having the voting interest under the policy together with appropriate forms for giving voting instructions.

We determine the number of a portfolio's shares held in a subaccount attributable to each owner by dividing the amount of a policy's variable investment account value held in the subaccount by the net asset value of one share in the series fund. Fractional votes will be counted. We determine the number of shares as to which the owner may give instructions as of the record date for a series fund's meeting. Owners of policies may give instructions regarding the election of the Board of Trustees or Board of Directors of a series fund, ratification of the selection of independent auditors, approval of series fund investment advisory agreements and other matters requiring a shareholder vote.

Legal Proceedings

There are no legal proceedings to which the Depositor, the Separate Account or the principal underwriter is a party or to which the assets of the Separate Account are subject that are likely to have a material adverse effect on the Separate Account or the ability of the principal underwriter to perform its contract with the Separate Account or of the Depositor to meet its obligations under the policy.

Financial Statements

The financial statements of the Separate Account, as well as the consolidated financial statements of John Hancock USA are in the SAI. The financial statements of John Hancock USA have relevance for the policies only to the extent that they bear upon its ability to meet its obligations under the policies. You may request an SAI by contacting our Service Office at a phone number or address shown on the back cover of this prospectus.

Appendix: Portfolios Available Under The Policy

The following is a list of portfolios available under the policies. More information about the portfolios is available in the prospectuses for the portfolios, which may be amended from time to time. You can find the prospectuses and other information about the portfolios at dfinview.com/JohnHancock/PUFT/MVEP1998-UV?site=Majestic. You can also request this information at no cost by calling 1-800-448-1616 or by sending an email request to [email protected].

The current expenses and performance information below reflect fees and expenses of the portfolios, but do not reflect the other fees and expenses that your policy may charge. Expenses would be higher and performance would be lower if these other charges were included. Each portfolio's past performance is not necessarily an indication of future performance. 

Investment Objective	Portfolio and Adviser/Subadviser	Current Expenses	Average Annual Total Returns (as of 12/31/25) (%)
			1-Year	5-Year	10-Year
To approximate the aggregate total return of a broad-based U.S. domestic equity market index.	500 Index Trust - Series NAV   John Hancock Variable Trust Advisers LLC/Manulife Investment Management (US) LLC	0.25%*	17.57	14.12	14.52
To seek income and capital appreciation.	Active Bond Trust - Series NAV   John Hancock Variable Trust Advisers LLC/Manulife Investment Management (US) LLC	0.65%*	7.56	0.09	2.67
To seek to provide high total return (including income and capital gains) consistent with preservation of capital over the long term.	American Asset Allocation Trust - Series I   Capital Research and Management Company (Adviser to the Master Fund, American Fund Insurance Series)	0.91%*	15.39	8.57	9.37
To seek to provide long-term growth of capital.	American Global Growth Trust - Series I   Capital Research and Management Company (Adviser to the Master Fund, American Fund Insurance Series)	1.07%*	21.17	7.81	11.74
To seek to provide growth of capital.	American Growth Trust - Series I   Capital Research and Management Company (Adviser to the Master Fund, American Fund Insurance Series)	0.95%*	19.81	12.95	17.53
To seek to provide long-term growth of capital and income.	American Growth-Income Trust - Series I   Capital Research and Management Company (Adviser to the Master Fund, American Fund Insurance Series)	0.91%	17.65	13.48	13.50
To provide long-term growth of capital. Current income is a secondary objective.	Blue Chip Growth Trust - Series NAV   John Hancock Variable Trust Advisers LLC/T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.	0.75%*	18.57	11.76	15.62
To seek long-term capital appreciation.	Capital Appreciation Value Trust - Series NAV   John Hancock Variable Trust Advisers LLC/T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.	0.88%*	11.62	9.11	10.95

Investment Objective	Portfolio and Adviser/Subadviser	Current Expenses	Average Annual Total Returns (as of 12/31/25) (%)
			1-Year	5-Year	10-Year
To seek long-term growth of capital.	U.S. Growth Trust - Series NAV   John Hancock Variable Trust Advisers LLC/Wellington Management Company LLP	0.62%*	20.76	11.77	17.13
The fund seeks a high level of current income consistent with the maintenance of liquidity and the preservation of capital.	Ultra Short Term Bond Trust - Series NAV   John Hancock Variable Trust Advisers LLC/Manulife Investment Management (US) LLC	0.62%*	4.34	2.52	2.01

 

Investment Objective	Portfolio and Adviser/Subadviser	Current Expenses	Average Annual Total Returns (as of 12/31/25) (%)
			1-Year	5-Year	10-Year
Seeks to provide maximum capital appreciation.	M Capital Appreciation Fund - Series M   M Financial Investment Advisers, Inc./Frontier Capital Management Company, LLC	0.95%	18.06	9.10	11.24
Seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation.	M International Equity Fund - Series M   M Financial Investment Advisers, Inc./Dimensional Fund Advisors, LP	0.62%	32.44	8.77	6.99
Seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation.	M Large Cap Growth Fund - Series M   M Financial Investment Advisers, Inc./Federated MDTA LLC	0.53%	19.61	12.43	15.06
Seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation.	M Large Cap Value Fund - Series M   M Financial Investment Advisers, Inc./Brandywine Global Investment Management, LLC	0.60%	17.31	13.92	9.61
To seek to provide capital appreciation.	TOPS® Aggressive ETF - Class 2   ValMark Advisers, Inc./Milliman Financial Risk Management, LLC	0.54%	18.83	9.41	10.43
To seek to provide income and capital appreciation.	TOPS® Balanced ETF - Class 2   ValMark Advisers, Inc./Milliman Financial Risk Management, LLC	0.54%	12.85	5.52	6.39
To seek to preserve capital and provide moderate income and moderate capital appreciation.	TOPS® Conservative ETF - Class 2   ValMark Advisers, Inc./Milliman Financial Risk Management, LLC	0.56%	10.15	4.34	4.99
To seek to provide capital appreciation.	TOPS® Moderate ETF - Class 2   ValMark Advisers, Inc./Milliman Financial Risk Management, LLC	0.53%	15.13	6.92	7.99

Investment Objective	Portfolio and Adviser/Subadviser	Current Expenses	Average Annual Total Returns (as of 12/31/25) (%)
			1-Year	5-Year	10-Year
To seek to provide capital appreciation.	TOPS® Moderately Aggressive ETF - Class 2   ValMark Advisers, Inc./Milliman Financial Risk Management, LLC	0.54%	17.99	8.56	9.53

* This portfolio's annual expenses reflect temporary fee or expense waivers or reimbursements.

General Information and History

Depositor

Under the Federal securities laws, the entity responsible for organization of the registered separate account underlying the variable life insurance policy is known as the "Depositor." John Hancock USA ("Depositor") is a stock life insurance company organized under the laws of Maine on August 20, 1955 by a special act of the Maine legislature and redomesticated under the laws of Michigan. The Depositor is a licensed life insurance company in the District of Columbia and all states of the United States except New York. Until 2004, the Depositor was known as The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company (U.S.A.). The Depositor's ultimate parent is Manulife Financial Corporation ("MFC"), a publicly traded company based in Toronto, Canada. MFC is the holding company of The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company and its subsidiaries, collectively known as Manulife Financial.

Registrant

Under the Federal securities laws, the registered separate account underlying the variable life insurance policy is known as the "Registrant." John Hancock Variable Life Account UV (the "Registrant" or "Separate Account"), is a separate account initially established by the Depositor under Massachusetts law on May 10, 1993. The Separate Account meets the definition of "separate account" under the Federal securities laws and is registered as a unit investment trust under the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"). Such registration does not involve supervision by the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") of the management of the Separate Account or of the Depositor.

Separate Account UV's subaccounts are made available as the variable investment accounts under variable life insurance and variable universal life insurance policies issued by John Hancock USA. New subaccounts may be added and made available to policy owners from time to time. Existing subaccounts may be modified or deleted at any time.

Services

Administration of policies issued by the Depositor and of registered separate accounts organized by the Depositor may be provided by other affiliates. Neither the Depositor nor the separate accounts are assessed any charges for such services.

Custodianship and depository services for the Registrant are provided by State Street Investment Services ("State Street"). State Street's address is State Street Financial Center, One Lincoln Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02111.

Audit services are provided by Ernst & Young LLP, independent registered public accounting firm. Ernst & Young LLP's address is 200 Clarendon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02116.

Underwriters

Principal Underwriter

John Hancock Distributors LLC ("JH Distributors"), a Delaware limited liability company wholly owned by John Hancock Life Insurance Company (U.S.A.), is the principal distributor and underwriter of the securities offered through the prospectus. JH Distributors acts as the principal distributor of a number of other life insurance and annuity products we and our affiliates offer or maintain. JH Distributors also acts as the principal underwriter of John Hancock Variable Insurance Trust (the "Trust"), whose securities are used to fund certain variable investment options under the policies and under other life insurance and annuity products we offer or maintain.

JH Distributors' principal address is 200 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116. JH Distributors is a broker-dealer registered under the Securities Act of 1934 (the "1934 Act") and is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA").

Offering and Commissions

We offer the policies for sale, on a continuous basis, through individuals who are licensed as insurance agents and who are registered representatives of broker-dealers that have entered into selling agreements with JH Distributors.

The aggregate dollar amount of underwriting commissions paid to JH Distributors by the Depositor and its affiliates in connection with the sale of variable life products in 2025, 2024, and 2023, was $185,390,596, $133,941,360, and $100,002,438, respectively. JH Distributors did not retain any of these amounts during such periods.

The registered representative through whom your policy is sold will be compensated pursuant to the registered representative's own arrangement with his or her broker-dealer. Compensation to broker-dealers for the promotion and sale of the policies is not paid directly by policy owners but will be recouped through the fees and charges imposed under the policy.

Other Payments

Additional compensation and revenue sharing arrangements may be offered to certain broker-dealer firms and other financial intermediaries. The terms of such arrangements may differ among firms we select based on various factors. In general, the arrangements involve three types of payments or any combination thereof:

• Fixed dollar payments: The amount of these payments varies widely. JH Distributors may, for example, make one or more payments in connection with a firm's conferences, seminars or training programs, seminars for the public, advertising and sales campaigns regarding the policies, to assist a firm in connection with its systems, operations and marketing expenses, or for other activities of a selling firm or wholesaler. JH Distributors may make these payments upon the initiation of a relationship with a firm, and at any time thereafter.

• Payments based upon sales: These payments are based upon a percentage of the total amount of money received, or anticipated to be received, for sales through a firm of some or all of the insurance products that we and/or our affiliates offer. JH Distributors makes these payments on a periodic basis.

• Payments based upon "assets under management": These payments are based upon a percentage of the policy value of some or all of our (and/or our affiliates') insurance products that were sold through the firm. JH Distributors makes these payments on a periodic basis.

Additional Information

Sales Load

We expect to recover our total sales expenses over the life of the policies through policy charges, including the premium, surrender and face amount charges. The amount of the charges in any policy year does not specifically correspond to sales expenses for that year, and to the extent that the premium, surrender and face amount charges do not cover total sales expenses, the sales expenses may be recovered from other sources, including the asset-based risk charge and other charges with respect to the policies, or from our general assets.

Underwriting Procedures

A policy will not be issued until the underwriting process has been completed to our satisfaction. The underwriting process generally includes the obtaining of information concerning the insured person's age, medical history, occupation and other personal information. This information is then used to determine the cost of insurance charge.

Financial statements

The statutory-basis financial statements of John Hancock Life Insurance Company (U.S.A.) as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2025, incorporated in this SAI by reference to report on Form N-VPFS filed April 15, 2026, have been audited by Ernst & Young LLP, independent auditors, as set forth in their report thereon, and are incorporated by reference in reliance upon such report given on the authority of such firm as experts in auditing and accounting.

The financial statements of HANCOCK JOHN VARIABLE LIFE ACCOUNT UV/ (File No. 811-07766) as of December 31, 2025, and for the two years in the period then ended, incorporated in this SAI by reference to report on Form N-VPFS filed April 15, 2026, have been audited by Ernst & Young LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, as set forth in their report thereon, and are incorporated by reference in reliance upon such report given on the authority of such firm as experts in auditing and accounting.