diff --git a/frontends/verific/verific.cc b/frontends/verific/verific.cc
index a8e8a3dc3..105a8fbd8 100644
--- a/frontends/verific/verific.cc
+++ b/frontends/verific/verific.cc
@@ -1891,6 +1891,9 @@ void verific_import(Design *design, const std::map<std::string,std::string> &par
 	if (!verific_error_msg.empty())
 		log_error("%s\n", verific_error_msg.c_str());
 
+	for (auto nl : nl_todo)
+	    nl->ChangePortBusStructures(1 /* hierarchical */);
+
 	VerificExtNets worker;
 	for (auto nl : nl_todo)
 		worker.run(nl);