diff --git a/examples/models/core/multimodal/requirements-qwen2vl.txt b/examples/models/core/multimodal/requirements-qwen2vl.txt
index 50f14d1d809..c75f6c32e1f 100644
--- a/examples/models/core/multimodal/requirements-qwen2vl.txt
+++ b/examples/models/core/multimodal/requirements-qwen2vl.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 accelerate
 qwen-vl-utils==0.0.8 # 0.0.9 has bug https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen2-VL/pull/673, rollback until a newer version is released
+transformers==4.51.0 # nvbugs/5385987
diff --git a/tensorrt_llm/tools/multimodal_builder.py b/tensorrt_llm/tools/multimodal_builder.py
index d93d1a8bfc8..9a2096852b7 100644
--- a/tensorrt_llm/tools/multimodal_builder.py
+++ b/tensorrt_llm/tools/multimodal_builder.py
@@ -1324,6 +1324,7 @@ def rot_pos_emb(grid_thw, rotary_pos_emb_func):
 
 
 def build_qwen2_vl_engine(args):
+    import transformers
     from qwen_vl_utils import process_vision_info
     from transformers import AutoProcessor, Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration
     from transformers.models.qwen2_vl.configuration_qwen2_vl import \
@@ -1391,8 +1392,15 @@ def build_qwen2_vl_engine(args):
     class VisionAttentionOpt(VisionAttention):
 
         def __init__(self, config: Qwen2VLVisionConfig):
-            super().__init__(config)
-            self.head_dim = config.embed_dim // config.num_heads
+            # Fallback for compatibility with older transformers versions (for certain nvbugs/tests)
+            if transformers.__version__ >= '4.53.0':
+                super().__init__(config)
+                self.head_dim = config.embed_dim // config.num_heads
+            else:
+                num_heads = config.num_heads
+                dim = config.embed_dim
+                super().__init__(dim, num_heads)
+                self.head_dim = dim // num_heads
 
         def forward(self,
                     hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt b/tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt
index d6463637208..27eef079984 100644
--- a/tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt
+++ b/tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt
@@ -235,7 +235,6 @@ stress_test/stress_test.py::test_run_stress_test[llama-v3-8b-instruct-hf_tp1-str
 accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestGemma3_1BInstruct::test_auto_dtype SKIP (https://nvbugs/5375620)
 test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_advanced_8gpus[Llama3.1-405B-FP8-llama-3.1-model/Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct-FP8] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5380570)
 test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_advanced_8gpus[Nemotron-Ultra-253B-nemotron-nas/Llama-3_1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5380570)
-examples/test_multimodal.py::test_llm_fp8_multimodal_general[fp8-fp8-cnn_dailymail-Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct-pp:1-tp:1-bfloat16-bs:1-cpp_e2e:False] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5385987)
 examples/test_multimodal.py::test_llm_multimodal_general[Phi-4-multimodal-instruct-pp:1-tp:1-float16-bs:1-cpp_e2e:False-nb:1] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5385992)
 examples/test_multimodal.py::test_llm_multimodal_general[kosmos-2-pp:1-tp:1-float16-bs:1-cpp_e2e:False-nb:1] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5387422)
 examples/test_multimodal.py::test_llm_multimodal_general[fuyu-8b-pp:1-tp:1-float16-bs:1-cpp_e2e:False-nb:1] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5387424)