diff --git a/verl/utils/config.py b/verl/utils/config.py
index 0dcd73a9..92d4ae2e 100644
--- a/verl/utils/config.py
+++ b/verl/utils/config.py
@@ -86,4 +86,16 @@ def check_mutually_exclusive(mbs, mbs_per_gpu, name: str):
             assert config.critic.ppo_mini_batch_size % config.critic.ppo_micro_batch_size == 0
             assert config.critic.ppo_micro_batch_size * sp_size >= n_gpus
 
+    # Check if use_remove_padding is enabled when using sequence parallelism for fsdp
+    if config.actor_rollout_ref.actor.strategy == 'fsdp':
+        if config.actor_rollout_ref.actor.ulysses_sequence_parallel_size > 1 or \
+                config.actor_rollout_ref.ref.ulysses_sequence_parallel_size > 1:
+            assert config.actor_rollout_ref.model.use_remove_padding, \
+                "When using sequence parallelism for actor/ref policy, you must enable `use_remove_padding`."
+
+    if config.critic.strategy == 'fsdp':
+        if config.critic.ulysses_sequence_parallel_size > 1:
+            assert config.critic.model.use_remove_padding, \
+                "When using sequence parallelism for critic, you must enable `use_remove_padding`."
+
     print("[validate_config] All configuration checks passed successfully!")