diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/ansible-test-unused-import-collections.yml b/changelogs/fragments/ansible-test-unused-import-collections.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1f68dc5ba92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/ansible-test-unused-import-collections.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - ansible-test - Enable the ``unused-import`` rule for the ``pylint`` sanity test for collections.
diff --git a/test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/pylint/config/collection.cfg b/test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/pylint/config/collection.cfg
index 627c80298cf..bf8f02821fd 100644
--- a/test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/pylint/config/collection.cfg
+++ b/test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/pylint/config/collection.cfg
@@ -109,7 +109,6 @@ disable=
     unsupported-delete-operation,
     unsupported-membership-test,
     unused-argument,
-    unused-import,
     unused-variable,
     unspecified-encoding,  # always run with UTF-8 encoding enforced
     use-dict-literal,  # ignoring as a common style issue