diff --git a/examples/configs/recipes/llm/grpo-qwen3.5-35ba3b-2n8g-megatron-ep16tp2-fp8.yaml b/examples/configs/recipes/llm/grpo-qwen3.5-35ba3b-2n8g-megatron-ep16tp2-fp8.yaml
index 66b85b2dfc6..98ebb44b452 100644
--- a/examples/configs/recipes/llm/grpo-qwen3.5-35ba3b-2n8g-megatron-ep16tp2-fp8.yaml
+++ b/examples/configs/recipes/llm/grpo-qwen3.5-35ba3b-2n8g-megatron-ep16tp2-fp8.yaml
@@ -14,10 +14,6 @@ policy:
   megatron_cfg:
     context_parallel_size: 1
     moe_router_dtype: fp32
-    freeze_config:
-      freeze_vision_model: true
-      freeze_vision_projection: true
-      freeze_language_model: false
     fp8_cfg:
       enabled: true
     optimizer:
diff --git a/examples/configs/recipes/llm/grpo-qwen3.5-35ba3b-2n8g-megatron-ep16tp2cp2.yaml b/examples/configs/recipes/llm/grpo-qwen3.5-35ba3b-2n8g-megatron-ep16tp2cp2.yaml
index 8687d981404..6ed27cef8e0 100644
--- a/examples/configs/recipes/llm/grpo-qwen3.5-35ba3b-2n8g-megatron-ep16tp2cp2.yaml
+++ b/examples/configs/recipes/llm/grpo-qwen3.5-35ba3b-2n8g-megatron-ep16tp2cp2.yaml
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ policy:
     context_parallel_size: 2
     sequence_parallel: true
     expert_model_parallel_size: 16
+    freeze_config:
+      freeze_vision_model: true
+      freeze_vision_projection: true
+      freeze_language_model: false
     apply_rope_fusion: false
     activation_checkpointing: true
     defer_fp32_logits: true
diff --git a/examples/configs/recipes/llm/grpo-qwen3.5-397ba17b-32n8g-megatron.v2.yaml b/examples/configs/recipes/llm/grpo-qwen3.5-397ba17b-32n8g-megatron.v2.yaml
index fd9af4c283d..45f2630e2e7 100644
--- a/examples/configs/recipes/llm/grpo-qwen3.5-397ba17b-32n8g-megatron.v2.yaml
+++ b/examples/configs/recipes/llm/grpo-qwen3.5-397ba17b-32n8g-megatron.v2.yaml
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ policy:
     moe_token_dispatcher_type: allgather
     apply_rope_fusion: false
     defer_fp32_logits: true
+    freeze_config:
+      freeze_vision_model: true
+      freeze_vision_projection: true
+      freeze_language_model: false
     optimizer:
       lr: 1.0e-06
       min_lr: 1.0e-06
diff --git a/examples/configs/recipes/llm/grpo-qwen3.5-9b-1n8g-megatron-fp8.yaml b/examples/configs/recipes/llm/grpo-qwen3.5-9b-1n8g-megatron-fp8.yaml
index 30e69bdabf5..5fdca15cef8 100644
--- a/examples/configs/recipes/llm/grpo-qwen3.5-9b-1n8g-megatron-fp8.yaml
+++ b/examples/configs/recipes/llm/grpo-qwen3.5-9b-1n8g-megatron-fp8.yaml
@@ -18,10 +18,6 @@ policy:
   make_sequence_length_divisible_by: 32
   megatron_cfg:
     moe_router_dtype: fp32
-    freeze_config:
-      freeze_vision_model: true
-      freeze_vision_projection: true
-      freeze_language_model: false
     fp8_cfg:
       enabled: true
     optimizer:
diff --git a/examples/configs/recipes/llm/grpo-qwen3.5-9b-1n8g-megatron.yaml b/examples/configs/recipes/llm/grpo-qwen3.5-9b-1n8g-megatron.yaml
index 2031e92f2a3..6203dd7e5d7 100644
--- a/examples/configs/recipes/llm/grpo-qwen3.5-9b-1n8g-megatron.yaml
+++ b/examples/configs/recipes/llm/grpo-qwen3.5-9b-1n8g-megatron.yaml
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ policy:
     apply_rope_fusion: false
     activation_checkpointing: true
     defer_fp32_logits: true
+    freeze_config:
+      freeze_vision_model: true
+      freeze_vision_projection: true
+      freeze_language_model: false
   generation:
     vllm_cfg:
       tensor_parallel_size: 4
diff --git a/tests/unit/models/generation/test_vllm_qwen35_bf16_trtllm_recipe.py b/tests/unit/models/generation/test_vllm_qwen35_bf16_trtllm_recipe.py
index b1f542efc23..52c400930a9 100644
--- a/tests/unit/models/generation/test_vllm_qwen35_bf16_trtllm_recipe.py
+++ b/tests/unit/models/generation/test_vllm_qwen35_bf16_trtllm_recipe.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any
 
+import pytest
 from omegaconf import OmegaConf
 
 from nemo_rl.utils.config import (
@@ -24,11 +25,18 @@
 
 PROJECT_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[4]
 RECIPE_NAME = "grpo-qwen3.5-35ba3b-6n4g-async-1off-bf16-trtllm.yaml"
+TEXT_RECIPE_NAMES = (
+    RECIPE_NAME,
+    "grpo-qwen3.5-9b-1n8g-megatron.yaml",
+    "grpo-qwen3.5-9b-1n8g-megatron-fp8.yaml",
+    "grpo-qwen3.5-35ba3b-2n8g-megatron-ep16tp2-fp8.yaml",
+    "grpo-qwen3.5-397ba17b-32n8g-megatron.v2.yaml",
+)
 
 
-def _load_recipe() -> dict[str, Any]:
+def _load_recipe(recipe_name: str = RECIPE_NAME) -> dict[str, Any]:
     register_omegaconf_resolvers()
-    recipe_path = PROJECT_ROOT / "examples/configs/recipes/llm" / RECIPE_NAME
+    recipe_path = PROJECT_ROOT / "examples/configs/recipes/llm" / recipe_name
     recipe = OmegaConf.to_container(
         load_config_with_inheritance(recipe_path), resolve=True
     )
@@ -69,3 +77,16 @@ def test_qwen35_bf16_trtllm_recipe_uses_supported_expert_layout() -> None:
         "moe_backend": "flashinfer_trtllm",
         "expert_placement_strategy": "linear",
     }
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("recipe_name", TEXT_RECIPE_NAMES)
+def test_qwen35_text_recipe_freezes_unused_vision_modules(
+    recipe_name: str,
+) -> None:
+    recipe = _load_recipe(recipe_name)
+
+    assert recipe["policy"]["megatron_cfg"]["freeze_config"] == {
+        "freeze_vision_model": True,
+        "freeze_vision_projection": True,
+        "freeze_language_model": False,
+    }