As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 19, 2014

1933 Act Registration No. 333-174332
1940 Act Registration No. 811-22559

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM N-1A

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933                    [ ]
Pre-Effective Amendment No. __                                             [ ]
Post-Effective Amendment No. 63                                            [X]
                                     and/or
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940            [ ]
Amendment No. 65                                                           [X]

FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND IV
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

120 East Liberty Drive, Suite 400
Wheaton, Illinois 60187
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

REGISTRANT'S TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE: (800) 621-1675

W. Scott Jardine, Esq., Secretary
First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund IV
First Trust Advisors L.P.
120 East Liberty Drive, Suite 400
Wheaton, Illinois 60187
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

Copy to:
Eric F. Fess, Esq.
Chapman and Cutler LLP
111 West Monroe Street
Chicago, Illinois 60603

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

[X] immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
[ ] on ___________ pursuant to paragraph (b)
[ ] 60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
[ ] on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
[ ] 75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
[ ] on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485.

If appropriate, check the following box:

[ ] this post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a
previously filed post-effective amendment.


This Registration Statement relates to First Trust North American Energy Infrastructure Fund, First Trust Senior Loan Fund and First Trust Tactical High Yield ETF, each a series of the Registrant.


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant certifies that it meets all of the requirements for effectiveness of this Registration Statement under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized in the City of Wheaton, and State of Illinois, on the 19th day of March, 2014.

FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND IV

By:     /s/ Mark R. Bradley
      -----------------------------------------
      Mark R. Bradley, President and
      Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated:

SIGNATURE                               TITLE                                 DATE

                                        President and Chief Executive         March 19, 2014
    /s/ Mark R. Bradley                 Officer
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    Mark R. Bradley
                                        Treasurer, Chief Financial  Officer   March 19, 2014
    /s/  James M. Dykas                 and Chief Accounting Officer
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    James M. Dykas
                                                         )
James A. Bowen*                                  Trustee )
                                                         )
                                                         )
Richard E. Erickson*                             Trustee )
                                                         )
                                                         )
Thomas R. Kadlec*                                Trustee )                BY:  /s/ W. Scott Jardine
                                                         )                    -----------------------
                                                         )                    W. Scott Jardine
                                                         )                    Attorney-In-Fact
Robert F. Keith*                                 Trustee )                    March 19, 2014
                                                         )
                                                         )
Niel B. Nielson*                                 Trustee )
                                                         )

* Original powers of attorney authorizing James A. Bowen, W. Scott Jardine, Mark R. Bradley, Eric F. Fess and Kristi A. Maher to execute Registrant's Registration Statement, and Amendments thereto, for each of the trustees of the Registrant on whose behalf this Registration Statement is filed, were previously executed, filed as an exhibit and are incorporated by reference herein.


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