[COLUMBIA MANAGEMENT LETTERHEAD]


                                        January 3, 2003



VIA EDGAR

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549

     Re:  Registration Statement on Form N-14
          Liberty Variable Investment Trust (the "Trust")
          (File No. 333-101250)
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Ladies and Gentlemen:

     This letter is being transmitted by means of electronic submission by the
Trust pursuant to Rule 497(j) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Securities Act"). I hereby certify on behalf of the Trust that the forms of the
combined Prospectus/Proxy Statement and Statement of Additional Information for
the proposed mergers listed below that would have been filed by the Trust
pursuant to Rule 497(b) under the Securities Act would not have differed from
those contained in the Trust's Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to its
Registration Statement on Form N-14, which was filed by electronic transmission
on December 30, 2002:

     1.   Columbia High Yield Fund, Variable Series, to be issued in exchange
          for all of the assets and liabilities of the Colonial High Yield
          Securities Fund, Variable Series, a series of the Trust, and the
          Galaxy VIP Columbia High Yield Fund II, a series of The Galaxy VIP
          Fund (the "Galaxy Trust");

     2.   Colonial International Fund for Growth, Variable Series, to be issued
          in exchange for all of the assets and liabilities of the Colonial
          Global Equity Fund, Variable Series, a series of the Trust, the
          Colonial International Horizons Fund, Variable Series, a series of the
          Trust, and the Stein Roe Global Utilities Fund, Variable Series, a
          series of the Trust;

     3.   Liberty Equity Fund, Variable Series, to be issued in exchange for all
          of the assets and liabilities of the Galaxy VIP Growth and Income
          Fund, a series of the Galaxy Trust, and the Galaxy VIP Equity Fund, a
          series of the Galaxy Trust; and


     4.   Colonial U.S. Growth & Income Fund, Variable Series to be issued in
          exchange for all of the assets and liabilities of the Liberty Value
          Fund, Variable Series, a series of the Trust.

     Please direct any questions you may have with respect to this filing to me
at (617) 772-3363.

                                       Very truly yours,

                                       /s/ Russell L. Kane

                                       Russell L. Kane
                                       Assistant Secretary